Hello,

I just have a simple question. My friend took this airbox out of his 2001 Accord V4, and just put a cone filter on his factory piping. Is that OK to do? Will he get any benefit from doing this, or should be get a intake with the piping for this car and replace it and put the filter on there, rather then having all of the old piping on with a filter at the end?

Thanks a lot

 

Yeah its fine if he did that. Although if its a completely stock car you will probably see little to no gains in power.depending on the filter manufacturer you could have actualy hindered the performance of the intake system as well as potentialy made a weak link to cause a problem later since stock airbox filters are designed to filtrate with affectiveness with particles down to 10 to 20 microns. a cheap cone filter may not actualy be able to filter particle sizes that small and all that crap gets down into your combustion chamber and usualy gouges the cylinder walls it only takes one or two grains of sand between the piston and cylinder wall to do some serious dammage. but of course this is all depending on the quality of the product. i wouldnt chance it with an ebay $3.95 cone filter but a Fram or K&N should do ya just fine

 

That's perfectly ok. I actually saw another person do this with his Integra. Anyways he would get benefit from this. The stock airbox intake is approx 2" opening while the cone filter is the whole surface area of the filter itself. Much less restriction.

Though I still believe a performance intake system will be better. The smooth interior of the pipe would not cause air turbulence inside the tube and I heard somewhere the name-brand performance intake have a special paint that rejects heat. So it helps.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by wyotecher-4-life &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yeah its fine if he did that. Although if its a completely stock car you will probably see little to no gains in power.depending on the filter manufacturer you could have actualy hindered the performance of the intake system as well as potentialy made a weak link to cause a problem later since stock airbox filters are designed to filtrate with affectiveness with particles down to 10 to 20 microns. a cheap cone filter may not actualy be able to filter particle sizes that small and all that crap gets down into your combustion chamber and usualy gouges the cylinder walls it only takes one or two grains of sand between the piston and cylinder wall to do some serious dammage. but of course this is all depending on the quality of the product. i wouldnt chance it with an ebay $3.95 cone filter but a Fram or K&N should do ya just fine </TD></TR></TABLE>

Seriously, you are trying too hard to look smart. A simple yes/no answers the question no need to try to explain the creation of the atomic bomb in EVERY post.

 

agreed lol!