I've been wanting to upgrade to a bigger intake tube but I didnt like the idea and trouble of moving the battery to the trunk so this is what I did...btw, I'm getting my car dynoed next week to find out how much gains from my previous AEM Civic Si tube. The battery I used is a Hawker-Genesis, courtesy of xrcr6 (Alan).





Sorry for the quality of the pics...I just took em a few minutes ago in my garage (in the dark)

 

i need to have my car dynoed too.....where are you going to take it dynoed?!?!?! im located nor cal..........im runnin some shitty *** 1/4 times.....2.4 60ft's

 

intake looks fine with me next to the battery.......whatever works.....hahah.....thats probably what id do.....to much hassle with relocating battery

 

looks good to me too

 

looks good. How the car start with the little battery?

 

looks good.

 

hey wait a minute what's with just the one clamp on that piping connector?

 

car freak!!! your car pulled hard on the freeway last weekend

-guess who

 

looks like it should work good. i still want a ride in your car

 

that battery is more than enough to start the car.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SIRX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hey wait a minute what's with just the one clamp on that piping connector?</TD></TR></TABLE>

i am betting that is there so the intake tube doesn't get a hole rubbed in it by the battery. just a guess, though.

 

can we get more info about that battery?

how much Cold cranking amps and hot cranking amps it has??

also what dimensions is it, what kind of methods u used to hold it...
what brand and where can u get it and fo rhow much....

and how well it performs with the elecetrical needs of the car....
driving on the night with stereo and lights on, and that sort of stuff....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by richierich &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i need to have my car dynoed too.....where are you going to take it dynoed?!?!?! im located nor cal..........im runnin some shitty *** 1/4 times.....2.4 60ft's</TD></TR></TABLE> There are a few places that you can go to...DNR (Hayward) ask for Ben, Dynospot (San Jose) ask for Lawrence, Vishnu (Pleasanton)..I've been to the first 2 and they're pretty good. I'm going to Dynospot because they can tune my Hondata.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SIRX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hey wait a minute what's with just the one clamp on that piping connector?</TD></TR></TABLE> I ran out of clamps thats all and was eager to post the new pix. But if you look closely, the bottom tube is connected to the frame of the car right above the headlight, so its hooked up tiiite. I'm getting a matching AEM connector tube to replace that gettho blue one I bought from Vic Hubbard's. Here's some info on the battery too. http://www.hepi.com/genesis.htm
We welded some steel bars to work as a platform, bolted it to the frame and used the old battery ties to hold the new brace on top then a coat of paint to finish it off...Battery performs really well, at least in the 2 days that I've been using them. Powers the car, headlights at night and my 300 watt amp that runs my sound system. (6 speaker system w/ 12 inch sub). When it rains, instead of putting an air bypass valve, I will simply switch the bottom tube and turn it to a short ram intake. Cost for the battery ($70), Cost for battery mounts ($5), Labor ($0)

 

Where did you buy that battery from?

Which size is that? and how many CCA's does it have?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KoRE &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Where did you buy that battery from?</TD></TR></TABLE>

DID you READ the post, check out the link that's IN the post.

 

Bought the battery from a local HT'er... XrcR6 (Alan)

 

on the ingenuity!

That being said, I think that's a far from optimal positioning of the CAI. For one, there's no shielding between the filter + the engine bay air - kind of missing the point of having a CAI to position the filter directly behind the radiator + rad fan - and secondly, there's nothing there to protect the filter from water + rocks. IMHO AEM, and every other CAI manufacturer, puts the CAI filter in the resonator box area for a reason.

 

Any ide what model number that battery is? They've got aobut 20 Hawker Genesis models, and I want to make sure I've got enough juice.

 

* Filter is not directly behind the radiator and rad fan
* Filter is right above the cross member radius rods (place racing) which works as a shield for rocks or whatever I run over... but for Water, it rarely rains in California unlike in BC and if you read through my post again, I have a plan of action when it rains. I also have 3 cars so I can use the other 2.
* If you have an EF, try fitting the 3 inch tube in the 2 1/2 inch hole that leads to the resonator box without moving your battery to the trunk
* The whole point of me using an ITR tube and somehow getting it to work is because the tube that AEM made for my car is too small for my set up.

 

Good response

I dunno, it seems a little risky to me, but then I'm used to random thundershowers on not putting the filter behind the radiator + fan... however, under motion the warm air passing through the rad is going to pass through the available exits, wherever they may be... in our case (yes, I drive an EF), that means out the bottom of the engine bay, where your filter is. Under motion it's a low-pressure zone so you're not going to be getting air from under the car where it is - you're going to be getting engine bay air. Sure it's further from the intake, but to me, it's just a longer SRI. An LRI? Plus the tube's right by the exhaust mani + rad tubes... kinda defeats the purpose IMO.

*shrugs* I'm just looking at it objectively. I'm curious to see how much of a difference it makes Can't wait to see dyno results!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by raene &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Good response
Can't wait to see dyno results! </TD></TR></TABLE> I am too...but I did notice an increase in power already especially in the top end...that smaller intake tube is really restricting.

 

EF_LSVTEC...............what radiator are you running in your ef?!?!?........just want to know since ur in bay area.......and i think my b16 ef is running a lil hot.......

 

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DID you READ the post, check out the link that's IN the post.</TD></TR></TABLE>

DID you READ the link that's in the post?

There is no online catalog is there? NOPE!


Maybe you should keep your mouth shut if you don't know what your talking about. I ask a simple question in a nice way and you respond with your arrogant comment.
to you

 

Feel like posting the Model number ont he battery? I'd like to buy one if at all possible...