I'm trying to lower my intake temps... I believe my air filter placement will help a lot. so I would like to get an idea of what you guys are doing with simular turbo location.

sorry to post the eng bay shot again, but here's where my air filter is:


has anyone made some kind of air duct to get fresh air to it? maybe a heat shield? has anyone logged the difference in air temps before and after changes made?

I think my tuner said the temps were around 130C but dont quote me on that. I'm upgrading to an S200 for datalogging capability.

 

I have no filter, just a screen , and have been running great for 10,000 boosted miles now. I put some seafoam in the other day and it really didn't change much (as I was expecting it to get ride of all the carbon from dust and things).

I've seen a setup where they stretched the pipe all the way to the metal on the driver's side (like close to the windshield washer fluid reservoir), and they cut a huge hole there then stuck a filter on the other side. So basically he made a cold air intake for turbo on the driver's side. I hope that made sense. If you really want I may be able to find the pictures here somehwere

 

It depends on the chassis.

There was no way in Arullu I was going to be able to fit a filter so I used 3" dryer duct to route the filter over to where the coolant bottle used to sit by the driver's side mount. I had to relocate the coolant overflow bottle to the firewall, and I used a piece of aluminum bracket to support the filter so the ducting doesn't tear. Sort of a ghetto cold air intake

 

hmm... yeah I might have to relocate the washer tank... I have the EM1...
yeah I would like some pics adseguy

anyone else?

 

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I've seen a setup where they stretched the pipe all the way to the metal on the driver's side (like close to the windshield washer fluid reservoir), and they cut a huge hole there then stuck a filter on the other side. So basically he made a cold air intake for turbo on the driver's side. I hope that made sense. If you really want I may be able to find the pictures here somehwere </TD></TR></TABLE>

Funny that you would say that because when I was a new member on here in March of '04 I asked that question and someone drew a picture of a CAI on an IC. Said I just couldn't do it.

edit: here's the thread, but the pic is gone. https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=812207

 

I searched "cold air turbo" and got 15 results and most had pics actually. Here is the one I was referring to https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1257474

 

Dustin, with what you are doing now you should be able to figure something out and fabricate it. Good luck I want to see some results from what we discussed

 

My filter looks just like yours,

 

im wondering, at high speeds when your turbo is under most load, does the air in the engine compartment swirl around enough that it wouldnt make any diff?

 

I think with the typical half radiator setup, there is a half decent amount of cooler
air flowing in. Of course colder is better, but for a lot of us there simply isnt enough
room.. In my crx, i used one of those HKS mushroom style filters. Its a lot more
compact than your typical K&N style, and was pretty much the only thing i could fit.

Like this. Pretty damn compact:

 

maybe you could somehow creating ducting or some shield that directs outside air right into the filter...

 

mines the same way, looks like i have the same filter too

 

On mine I run a 3" bend going from turbo to the grill on my 00 civic w/screen.. I used to run like your pic, but switched due to the crazy heat down there.. Just fab up some bends

 

same spot. i'm planning on making a heat shield when i find the time.

 

mines the same as everyone elses
anyone other then raene have cheap cold air idea's ??

 

I have a screen that goes to my air box. Postive pressure owns me...

 

there is a guy on here that used like a 4 inch hole saw and sawed all the way thru the engine compartment into the fenderwell, and used some high temp silicon coupler for routing and movement flexibility.

this is the closest thing i could think of doing, BUT i dont have a fenderwell liner and dont want my turbo sucking in water, or smoke from a burnout!!!!


mine is just like everyone elses, i think i may make a heat shield or something.

unless you really wrap the manifold, ambient heat owns the engine bay.

also if you have an efficient intercooler would it really matter???

also is it really possible to lower air temps before the squeezing of the air in the compressor housing.....enough to make a big difference before the intercooler?? main question here i guess

 

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Can you give a little more info with pictures about this setup?

 

You can see more pics here: http://www.tunerzine.com/artic....html

All Fabrications were done by Tony 1 of T1 Race Development.

 

 

mine's a little more out of the way, i guess i could remove the headlight on race days.

Thought about making it a CAI, but since i had to cut up my fenderliner for the old FMIC setup before I went backdoor, i didn't want hot rubber getting thrown on it during a burnout.

Atleast its a topmount with a air filter

 

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Very interesting setup,is it still filtered?

 

dturbocivic did you ever run a filter on that setup? It looks like it would be very prone to gravel, dust ect... Im guessing you did run a filter

 

dturbocivic has an interesting setup... thats what I'm talking about thanks for the pics...

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good article can't really get a good look at your airfilter box from those pics... but from what I can see, looks like you may have put a box around the cone filter..? or better yet you have a flat filter just like a stock air filter box... only this one always has positive air pressure from the big hole in your headlight

hmmm... (wheels are turning)

 

i use a dsm 2g on my integra just turn it upside down