GSR owners w/ intake
 

Do your intake seem a bit weak in terms of sound? Friend's got the same intake on his LS and it sounds mean/deeper (when flooring it). Also a friends civic has a DC sports intake and it roars... I was wondering if it was the design of our gsr manifold thats limiting the noise or if anyone else notice it sounds a bit weaker.

Mine is fairly loud when the secondaries open.

Is VTEC working? The secondaries opening? ...

I have the AEM CAI....and love the deep roar....mine seems to be fine! :)

is your exhaust loud?

exhuast is greddy sp1 axel back (pretty quiet), header is dc 4-2-1... the header is loudest (esp during vtec). i'm just wondering if i should change intake, cause i like the deep intake sound

is it normal for the header to be louder than intake?

i'm not so sure an aftermarket header would make extra noise, especially with everthing between it and the axle-back being stock... you might just be hearing the intake and mistaking it for the header??? or did you mean exhaust...

I have an SE (LS) with an AEM CAI and yeah, it's really deep and roary whenever I step on it. maybe B18C engines just react a bit differently to CAIs as B18B engines

it's definetely header especially during vtec (sounds really nice) , but i like that intake sound during non-vtec rpms. I currently have a generic intake, and someone is selling a new DC sports intake for 95$ shipped and my friend has a DC sports on his civic and that screams.. So i'm just trying to make sure no one else is getting this weak sound on their gsr, and i will purchase the DC sports.

i had an iceman (plastic tube) on my gsr and it was a lot more subtle than the ebay intake on my accord. i thinl tellurium is on the right track. most dohc vtec motors have a 2-stage intake manifold. the "vtec" you hear at 5800 rpm is actually the intake manifold opening the 2nd stage. so maybe it's quieter because the 2nd stage is closed until then? pesonally, i like it better that way. quiet, and then you hear the sound of the secondaries opening up, sounds way cool.

For the some reason the non-vtec engines sound louder w/an intake on them. Don't ask me why. However the GSR sounds better when the VTEC kicks in. Hvae someone drive your car and you stand on the side and listen. It is not that bad, and you'll be like, my car sounds pretty cool...

centerforce, it's because of the dual-stage intake manifolds. on the vtec engines, only half the intake manifold is open until vtec kicks in, that's why it's quieter.

^^only on p72 heads

right, the type R is a regular big-ass intake manifold, correct?

yep so is the b16 with long runners...

gotcha thanks

Yeah, aem short ram intake. Mine sound good especially when tach hit 6K. My buudy has gsr also, I,E & H & his sound good, but on my B16 in my civic motor is louder than his gsr.

I have the AEM V2 on my B18C. It is pretty quick during half throttle driving, around town. But as soon as you jump it it gets stupid loud.
I have the intake, DC JDM sport headers, and a magnaflow high flow cat and cat back. The intake during vtec is still a lot louder.

mine was quiet too. untill i put the jg manifold on it. it is much louder now.

i just got K&N filter and my shiet is loud when uncovered...but eats so much dam gas so i keep covered now.

i thought the intake lowers the amount of gas used