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2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 05:07 PM
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Default 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

Trying to decide on a cold air intake any kind of input would be appericated. And sry cause im sure this question has been abused a 1000 times over.
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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 05:22 PM
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Run a short ram and use heat reflective tape on it with a pipe to funnel the outside air in, this will give you better throttle response without having it intake hot air.

I am using this,




With this,





You'll want to get a pipe with a 45o angle on it to ram air from the outside in. I think there's many different ways of doing this, you can even make a heat shield to insulate the filter from the engine so it doesn't intake any hot air.
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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 05:27 PM
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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

I like the sound of that i was thinking about hydro lock so this sounds like a better idea would you happen to have a pic of this setup and do i just run a pipe up to the filter?
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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 05:33 PM
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I like the sound of that i was thinking about hydro lock so this sounds like a better idea would you happen to have a pic of this setup and do i just run a pipe up to the filter?
Something like this. The pipes can be gotten at Advance auto.

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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 06:05 PM
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What type of filter does yours have the shiny one?
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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 06:06 PM
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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

And What kind of pipe will i need for the second pipe to get cold air up to it?
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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

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What type of filter does yours have the shiny one?
The one in the pic.
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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 06:17 PM
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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

Just get a basic K&N intake system from O'reilly. It'll give the car a nice growl for a decent price
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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 06:32 PM
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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

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And What kind of pipe will i need for the second pipe to get cold air up to it?
Something like this maybe, if the hole is big enough,

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Old Jun 6, 2013 | 05:46 AM
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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

Take what ^Mishako^ says with a grain of salt. Mainly posts unsupported/unproven ricer garbage.

Remove resonator, get a drop in filter. You won't really make any extra power until the car is tuned. A factory intake off a 97-01 Prelude may perform the best with it's additional tube diameter and intake box volume. The factory airbox actually creates a positive pressure wave which can increase throttle response and power. Honda's designs are actually VERY good from the factory.

If you're just after that mad tyte JDM sound, filter on a stick.

Here's a thread discussing some various intakes on HS. There's some very good links/info in here that you should take into consideration before dumping money into something that doesn't necessarily need 'improving'..

http://www.hondasociety.com/board/sh...d.php?t=153859

Example:
I bought my car with one of those wicked sweet spectre autozone intakes on it. It was loud. And annoying. I got a stock EX intake for a 94-97(I have an LX), and found that it had two additional resonation chambers on it, the lower of which is quite long and had a vacuum/electrically actuated butterfly valve in it that opens to reduce sound. I removed the resonator in the bumper, and it increased sound a bit. I removed the lower, longer, butterfly actuated resonator and kept the smaller upper resonator on the tube because the upper one is a helmholtz design. I feel a BIG increase from 2500-4000 over the big pimpin' spectre intake, it's reasonably quiet, and works well. Better throttle response, too. I may have a line on a stock 97-01 Prelude intake, which has a slightly larger pipe and box than what I'm currently running. There's a thread around here that actually shows the only intake that will increase performance on an H22 over the factory, non Type-S box, to be an AEM V2. This is largely dependent on various factors, but proves the stock intake designs from Honda work very well.

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-prelude-4/dyno-results-intake-testing-tuning-graphs-2049478/

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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

ok I like the sound of this to do you have a pic of the resonator pipe so i know which one to take off?
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Old Jun 6, 2013 | 01:35 PM
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Default Re: 2002 Honda Accord 2.3l ex 5sp Cold Air intake

Should be under your factory airbox, behind the front bumper. Check 6thgenaccord.com for a writeup/DIY on removal, I'm sure they have one. It's pretty easy.

Check this out:
https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-accord-1990-2002-2/diy-cold-air-intake-cai-6th-gen-pics-1869022/
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