Running your turbo w/o a Air Filter, im having a hard time getting the piping to fit around my Tranny. I have the ZC with the DX Tranny, what can I do, or just run it like that.

 

just on a matter of principle its a really bad idea. if its a drag car that you only run at the track, by all means run without a filter, since you dont mind rebuilding your stuff regularly. but if its a daily driver, i dont know why you'd ever run without a filter.

 

I don't think it's really "safe" to ever run with no filter, never know what you can suck up in there, especially under boost

 

I asked a long-time honda mechanic about this when we were having trouble getting the max-rev setup to fit in a '00 Si. He said we would be rebuilding the motor ever 5-10K miles without a filter.

 

So what can I do to make it fit, what do you guys recomend.

 

rig up an intake or get one done at a shop.

 

build one or get one built.

 

Home Depot - 3" flexible vent hose. $8.00. I've actually got shelves and shelves of reinforced coated nylon flex hose at work here that works great.

 

Thanks for the info, now I can sleep in peace. Now another question its not going to be to hot that its going to melt it is it, or just stock up on them for a just in case thing.

 

Alot of guys also use the flexible automotive enhaust pipe. I had to move my battery to the hatch in order to fit a filter under the hood. I got super lucky with my filter, the bottom half of my aem cold air intake actually was the perfect shape. The filter sits exactly where the battery used to be.

 

that is lucky, my aem's never fit stock!