turnsignalandy

I want an Apexi filter for my 97 ex. Can i just get the air filter or should i go with the kit?
Will the filter alone mount to my stock intake pipe/tube?

turnsignalandy

anyone please help. its 75 for filter only and 100 for kit.....

qfast817

i bought the filter and worked with my 3in intake

Eyal 951

you need the kit. the filter bolts to the adapter, so you cant use a hose clamp or anything.

turnsignalandy

Does the aur going through the funnel in this intake get filtrated at all? WOuldnt that get dirt in the engine?

Eyal 951

umm, theres a filter around the funnel. You can get a glimpse of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi3mzuHfLaY

turnsignalandy

has anyone used this intake before? How was it? Would i feel any gains?

Eyal 951

the gain is in the filter design. My friend Installed it on his GSR, and there was a gain, at least as much as your gonna get from an intake. Its quiter then other intakes because you don't have an aluminum pipe reverberating the noise. I find those intakes often are too loud, this one mixes with the exuast perfectly for good sound, while maintaining the factory tuning of the intake pipe. (why replace it, its not like a metal pipe flows more air then the factory pipe.)
That video is my car. I have a B16 throttle body and intake pipe on there. I won't be able to tell you about gains, since I've built the engine with cams, compression etc etc, and my first test drive will be with all of it together.

turnsignalandy

right now i have a stock airbox filter but with the resonator box removed and i like the way it sounds, really deep. How will this one sound in comaprrison? Also i have a y8, will i be able to hear my vtec kick in?

Eyal 951

it will probably sound pretty simular. I have no idea if you will be able to hear vtec.

Farmer Brown

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No. You can only really hear it on the B serries.

God dammit I wish people would stop posting that..
OMFG CAN I HEAR TEH MAD VTECHS!?!??
I dont know.. Can you? Its your car...

turnsignalandy

Is this intake washable or cleanable? If not how long does it last? Is it like the HKS intake that only last 10k miles?

TranspeedMotorsports

An aluminum tube flows better than the factory because if you look inside the factory tube there are grooves.

Also, you CAN hear VTEC on a sohc, it just doesn't "scream" as loud as a B.

Eyal 951

thos grooves are really not going to effect anything really, not on a 1.5 or 1.6 liter. Look at the throtle body, were talking about a bigger restriction and turbulence there.

Its not cleanable, I dunno how long it last, just call a retailer and ask all these questions.

turnsignalandy

How would i fix the restirction? Bigger throttle body, then mathcing the IM to the thorttle body? Also is the kit for the intgera bigger in size, and would that help if i put it on my civic?