Hi,

Would this work?

The air intake resonator is out of my civic and now I have a hole in the bottom of my air intake/box. If you look into the air box, you can see straight down to the ground. When u shine a torch up from the front bumper u can see if through the hole.

If I rigged up some pipe leading down to the front bumper and secure it facing forwards, I'd get more cold air coming into the front of the car (and it would get more air as I drove faster!) At least that's the theory...

The only thing I'm cautious about is ppl on here have talked about home made intake mods like this and seems the important thing is to make sure that crap like leaves and bugs dont make it to the engine (and hopefully not the filter). I've got mesh in the bumper where my pipe would face, so that should stop the biggest bugs, and there IS the filter after that as well..

What do you guys n gals think? I hope it works cos I think it's a nifty idea and would be CHEAP to do.

Suggestions of materials to use would be appreciated too, if you have them.

 

if it rains, you are gonna completely saturate your filter in water....and thats no good

 

well... its been done many times


unless the pipe is completly air sealed...water wont suck up to the filter. the airbox may get a little wet on the outer edges...but i have never had a problem.

it will work...it adds noticable throttle response.

 

meh..learn something new everyday :thumbup:

 

What are the odds of this? Lots of ppl have air intakes right down low and no water gets to the air filter.

Have just read a few more sites/things and have discovered yeah it's done lots as a previous post says, and also that it's best combined with a K&N filter.

It's starting to sound like a plan, but I still wanna know more about the odds of water getting to the air filter. Who else has done this? What have you found? And also more ppl's thoughts on the results

 

Your cold air intake wont suck up water unless it is submerged in it, such as a huge ass puddle, if you are worried about it then put an air bypass valve on it also... or build half a box around the filter... Apexi filters have shown to be better than k&n. Intakes will give you what you are looking for with the other propper bolt ons such as headers, exhaust, manifolds, throttle bodies... but intake alone wont do MUCH for you other than add a nice sound.

 

apex'i filters also MSRP at 100 dollars (max)

 

Yes, it's been done, mostly on track cars. It's not a bad idea.

I would think if you were to fabricate a catch tank for the water to fall into and the air to go straight up, that would be :goodjob:

 

Catch tank? I don't get it.. Where's the water going to get caught? If it doesnt enter the air filter, it'll fall out the bottom of the car to the ground anyway... so what's the catch? (excuse the bad joke :P )

 

congrats youve just invented ram air.....oh wait theyve been doing that for years heh. seriously yes it will work however you will increase the possibility of sucking water. My suggestion would be to run a short ram intake and fabricate a box arround the filter and then lead the pipe from the new box down to the front of the bumper. that should fix the water problem enough but you might consider a relief valve on the box just in case.