Sup guys,

need your opinion on something, i'm going to put a pod filter on my integra and playing with the idea of using stainless steal pipe with 100-200mm silcone adapter from the throttle body to avoid direct contact. Is there much of a difference for N/A?

There seems to be a lot of debate over using heat wrap to deflect heat from the tubing. Even heard that using wrap around piping can cause it to rust over time.

I am aware that gains are minimal at best but the way i see it keeping the colder with faster flow should work.

 

Why not run the J's racing intake(carbon fiber) don't have to worry about any of that, alternatively ALL intakes come with a silicon connector to the TB. is that the only mod so far ? it's too small a gain you'd seriously be better off removing the P/S system.

 

Plastic is a good insulator. It's light weight and its free because it's already there.

Stainless steel is a bad idea for an intake. Stainless is heavy. It's going to be hard to bracket it up so that it's not ripping the couplings and smashing whatever it's bouncing on when you're driving. Stainless steel also inherently resists rust. Or it would just be called "steel". 316 stainless steel is probably the most stainless as it resists chlorides as well. I think that's what they make salt trucks out of.

What I did for my ITR was to use a random no name 3" aluminum pipe. I painted it wrinkle black. I cut it to length and used an AEM dryflow filter. I placed the filter in the stock air box. I removed the stock airbox resonator chamber, but used a pipe to pull in air from behind the fender, like stock.





On my GSR, I did a resonator delete, but just left the stock intake arm and cut the suction tube shorter so that it would pull in air from the same location as a stock ITR.


Looks and works better than some intake on a stick setup. Keeps temps down since you're always pulling air from the bumper cavity. Using the stock pipe to do that minimizes the chance for water suction.