re-animator

Hello,

I'm wondering how much bottom end power do aftermarket intakes lose compared to my D16Y8 stocker. I've heard that porting to match the bigger throttle body and a gasket-match on the port side is all they need for a "stage 1" street motor.

But the aftermarket manifolds look kinda cool.....

Any opinions here would be cool.

thanks,
kurt

Chiovnidca

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I'm wondering how much bottom end power do aftermarket intakes lose compared to my D16Y8 stocker.


Any opinions here would be cool.

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Hondas dont have any bottom end to lose.

re-animator

I kinda figured as much. I do miss torque when I put my other car away for winter, but it's still fun.

Anybody else have an opinion?


kurt

B18C5-EH2

IMO an aftermarket IM on an otherwise stock D16Y8 is pointless. Unless it's boosted and you're being bottlenecked by the stock manifold, or you've got some crazy N/A motor the stock D16Y8 is as good as the stock ones get.

Hell many D series people ditch their stock manifolds and use the D16Y8 IM as an upgrade!

IMO spend your money elsewhere...

re-animator

That's what I thought, but, as you might have seen, I'm a NOOB, so if there's something I don't know about, I'd like to hear it. The first time I heard the Y8 was decent was from a guy from Singapore at a dental convention.

I think I'll pull it off, port, port-match and powdercoat it. I was thinking a cam change and a small shot of nitrous in the future,does anybody see problems here?

Best thing is I can upgrade it later if I need to.

thanks,

kurt

Ricey McRicerton

I have a y8 intake manifold on a boosted y7 that runs high 13s. I port matched it to the head and polished the intake runners just by the head and I'm very happy with it.