Ive seen these "Intake Intercoolers" that connect to your cold Air. Pretty much its just an immitation for a turbo intercooler. Im pretty sure, In Theory, These would help filter all excess crap through the filter to push more cold air through the pipe. Or im just not thinking...

Anyways, where would i find one of these filters. All i found was (I think) at the AEM site. Can anyone help with this? I dont think this has been posted...

 

Ok, here is a nice article piece on this -

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by http://www.team-integra.net/se...ID=46 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Of special mention is the Arospeed FMIS (Front Mount Intake System). This interesting design places a large flat air filter in front of your radiator. Aerospeed claims tha air will be forced into the intake when you are traveling at speed, creating more power. I claim they are full of it, and that's not the only problem I have with this intake.

For one, the intake pipe is too long. Shorter pipes are more efficient, the engine does not like to have to work to get its air. Second, the "ram air" that they claim the FMIS gives you is impossible given the design of the pipe mounted sideways to the direction of airflow. Third, this thing is just plain dangerous. All the airborne crap like bugs, rocks, goo, and whatever that you see murder your front bumper is now in direct position to murder your engine. Traveling at speed, there's definitely a possibility of some of that crap busting through the air filter. Fourth, to counteract reason 3, there is a safety device they offer for the FMIS called the Lexan Window. This blocks all that airborne debris however it then takes away the entire advantage that they advertised you would have by having the air filter mounted in the front of your car. And lastly, with the intake now in front (especially using the Lexan Window), airflow to your radiator is now blocked and coolant ventilation is kept at a minimum. I'm sure I don't have to tell anyone that this is a bad thing.
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Ooo Sh*t, I was actually thinkin of gettin something like that, but never thought of the debris. So lets say you had a front bumper of a body kit with a fairly large opening in the front and let the radiator show, would debris, bugs, etc. damage that? Same with the AEM Cold Air cone since you can see it right through.

So they dont make any kind of air dams that help performance other than Turbo intercoolers?

 

for him learnin before he goes out to buy one...i hope

 

Matt

 

one of my friends has it on his 99 civic and you can not even notice an increase in power and it plain out looks stupid. It doesnt even look like an intercooler unless your 20 feet away. You shouldnt get this because it is a waste of money.

 

Its a good thought..
but a badly designed product...
The air just has to make to many turns..You would actually loose hp..
Its a piece of ****..

 

Inter fooler