Ok. Before you flame away. I am an admitted noob. I own a GSR and don't work on cars at all. I change my own oil but that is it.

After some research here I decided on an AEM SRI.

I got the part and read through the instructions.. Again I know this is simple for I'm sure 99% of you but not me. I really could use some pictures in the AEM instructions but there are none.

What I don't understand..... I notice a hose on my GSR that goes from the valve cover to the intake. But there is another tube on the bottom of this that goes somewhere else. But it seems to be "fused" together. So if I remove the valve cover tube... It looks like the other one is going to have to go with it.

My kit came with two tubes. Do I need both of them?

Do I really need to drain coolant before I start this like the instructions say to do? If anyone has some close up pictures of theri SRI on a GSR it would help me out a bunch. Any advice appreciated before I start this noob project! Thanks

And I have searched this forum and a bunch of others... including team-integra.net where I checked out a AEM CAI install article. It didnt help me

 

What i did for mine is just ran the hose from the intake plug to the valve cover and then zip tied the other "fused" line down to something so it didnt fly around. It was the easy way to do it. You can drain the coolant and put that other hose in if you want, but I would not recommend that. These are direct boltons, so you should not have to do that. Hope this helps.

 

My AEM came with two hoses, I used one. I left the OEM metal tube with the hoses attached to it in place, and connected a single hose to that from the intake. The hoses go to the valve cover, throttle body, and front water passage. Here's a pic:

 

holy dirty engine bay! looks like you drove through a puddle. :eek3:

 

I did, a few times. They're doing construction near my house and the road is fuxored...always has huge muddy puddles on it.

I need a super engine bay cleaning once it stops raining.

 

I basically pulled a Dubster on my car (The difference was that on mine, the new tuping ran directly from the intake to the valve cover, and I zip tied that and the stock thing together. I kept the second tube around, and I eventually swapped it out when I changed the coolant.

 

Thanks Yodub. That is just what I needed!. I think I will do the same thing. Does it matter at all that if I connect the AEM tube to the oem metal thing that goes from the valve cover to the intake that I am going to make it much longer than the stock set up!

Again thanks for the help!

 

I replaced both of my hoses, you dont need to drain the fluid just make sure the car is not hot because the pressure can cause the fluid to shoot out. Plus it will look nicer with the colored hoses in the engine bay instead of a stock one that is attached together.