well my car came with a short ram intake w/ AEM filter. nice looking and sounded fine but wasn't really my style.

so i read around this forum (and others) a lot to see what people had come up with. the icebox copy was definitely good info! however, wasn't finding thin walled PVC around here to make the cold air intake pipe.

i used 4" semi rigid ducting to bring air into the airbox. i have it routed like the icebox clone (going down by the turn signal then turned toward the corner marker). it was quite easy to route and install. it took a little effort to mate it up to the inlet on the airbox but was doable. here are a couple pics...



next issue was the air filter. seemed like highway robbery to me to pay $65-75 for a drop in high flow air filter for the stock box. i started looking and measuring to see what i could come up with. additionally, found some great calculation tools on K&N's website to determine exactly how much filter surface area is needed for my application.

after much searching i found a high flow air filter from a known manufacturer that would work for my project for $31.

below are pics on how i went about installing the filter. basically, i used the stock filter base to make a mating collar for my new filter and it worked perfectly!

stock airfilter in airbox:


inside view of stock filter (there is a lip in there for attaching the new filter; its hard to see but i verified it before starting the project):


peeling away the filter element to get at the base:


bottom section of filter after cutting:


remaining filter and mesh. it actually pulled out quite easy so if i were to do this again i'd try just pulling that off first without cutting:


here is the new filter clamped onto the flange left after all the filter element was removed:


finally, a few pics of it sitting in the air box. fits in nicely, its smaller in diameter and length than the stock filter (which i wanted to allow more air volume in the box around the filter):




in summary, i got a setup i am happy with for under $40 and about an hour of labor. the filter has flow capacity higher than my engine needs yet still gives more air space in the box, which was one of my goals. i also have a reusable filter for about $10 more than a plain old paper filter costs from the parts store.

 

Very nice, I had that on my old DA

 

Where did you get the filter? Could you post a link, or the part number for the filter.

 

I had a better but more ghetto , dryer hose setup, i completely removed the complete the intake set up, and just ran a dryer hose from the TB all the way to the bottom and when it rained i just pull it up and and reinforced it with electrical tape it worked wonders believe me, and yes is real f%%ng ghetto

 

i ordered it from CarDomain actually! price was good and i got free shipping so i can't complain. its mfgr by Airaid and is part # 700433

 

props for the ingenuity and creativity, but it seems like a lot of work to me for such little gains...

 

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actually it wasn't much work (i don't mind spending an hour tinkering with the car) or cost and i prefer the more stock look (and avoiding hot engine compartment air) to a typical short ram intake.

plus i'm just a guy who likes to do little projects to satisfy my mod hunger (painted valve cover, gauge trim, etc) and to set my car apart from stock a little

 

what kind of paint did yo use for your valve cover and where did you get it?

 

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VHT brand Wrinkle Paint - Red. i was able to get it at a local shop but if no one around you has it Summit Racing sells it online. pretty pleased with the outcome (was worth the work)

 

Nice DIY , I applaud the effort, but understand dryer hose is not beneficial to flow in any kind of way...The construct of the tube will deter free flow

 

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i don't agree with this. from what i've researched, vacuum on that side of the intake/air filter is quite low. i do not see the tube 'ribbing' being largely detrimental. on the other hand the tube between the filter and TB should be as smooth as possible as that is were large vacuum can build.

would smooth tubing be better? maybe so, but how much so i think is negligible. getting cool air from outside the engine bay was my primary aim with that tube.

 

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I did this to a go cart once. Took a big gutter drain tube, looks like a dryer hose except it's plastic, and hooked it to the intake on the go cart with the other end pointing forward, it had a ram air effect. No pics though, wrecked it by taking it off a jump and rolling it a couple times...

 

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i don't agree with this. from what i've researched, vacuum on that side of the intake/air filter is quite low. i do not see the tube 'ribbing' being largely detrimental. on the other hand the tube between the filter and TB should be as smooth as possible as that is were large vacuum can build.

would smooth tubing be better? maybe so, but how much so i think is negligible. getting cool air from outside the engine bay was my primary aim with that tube.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Im just telling you what youre doing is not the most effecient way...Its detimental to flow...Despite what you read, but it is, and we can go into the physics of why it is

 

for sleeper look!

i got icebox on stock arm.

 

nice... just what i was looking for...

 

nice diy how does it feel.. compared to ur old aem short ram setup

 

i'd say it feels about the same as the short ram did. i like the look better and the fact its not pulling hot engine bay air.

 

goo job. I did the same thing. When I got my GSR. I took my old EK AEM V2 filter and made a collar with the stock intake filter. and shoved it inside the stock airbox. I too did the DIY icebox thing but I used 4 inch pvc piping and then sleved the whole thing in heater exhaust pipe.

But then I swithced to NSX airbox. best intake so far. I like it more than my EK mugen intake.

 

any pics of the nsx box setup? how does it fit?

 

You need to relocate the coolant bottle and shorten the upper hose on the radiator to move it over a bit.

 

ah man, you should have picked up the K&N RU-2820 filter. It's the same size as stock and if you use both end pieces from a stock filter, it fits just like stock, too!





Of course I always run with the box lid in place.

I've been using this same filter for nearly 6 years now and about 150,000 miles.

*edit* oops just read that you wanted a smaller filter. Oh well, I didn't like the idea of the end of the filter just floating in the air, which is why I attached the endcap from the stock filter. You could probably do that to yours, too. I just attached it with 4 screws.

Yeah I agree with you that the K&N "drop-in replacement" is a rip-off, and it doesn't even fit nearly as well as stock.

 

 

ya, i wanted more room in the air box around the filter, and the price on this filter was good.

k&n does offer a good selection of universal filters though for ppl wanting to go that route.

 

Just a quick questions for the op about the valve cover. How did not paint over the "honda motor co" Did you tape it off??

 

I've heard you can just wipe on something like Vaseline onto the face of the letters and then wipe it off when you're done.