Help my car breathe

[LoudCrownVic 5,000+ posts]

When i got the car, the intake had another peice of tube that went from where the filter is now down to the ground. the person that owned it b4 me lived down a long dirt road, and there was actually mud on the filter, i knew this couldnt be good, and thought with it being that close to the ground it would be constantly dirty and whatnot, so i removed that peice, and put a new filter on it. I keep the car spotless, and rarely hit a dirt road, so do i need to relocate it back to where it was? it was still coming out of the black stock air box. so if they'd done it right, it prolly wouldnt have been like 1foot above the ground, it wouldve been about half way down right?
I am following meades build b/c i never saw the car untill it got stolen, and he had alot of the same ideas i ahd on my car, except i didnt really want bags, just nice rims sittin a little low. anyways. So im emplementing some of his ideas, and my ideas, and some if the things we shared into my car.

On the exhaust issue, ive decided like you said to just tell the man what i want, and have him do it.

Thanks for the compliment of the intelligence of the way i am upgrading, and the style. if your curious, the only thing i am doing to the exterior of the car is body kit, wheels, re-painting, removing the factory spoiler, and retinting the windows. these are the links to the body kit, and wheels. And honestly, im re-thinking the body kit to just side skirts, and a front lip. and if i do a kit, it is going to be this one, mild.

http://www.body-kits.biz/details/prodid/905.html

http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/DisplayWheel.jsp?wheelMake=Zinik&wheelModel=Z18+Minardi&wheelFinish=Black+w%2FMach+Lip

I personally dislike body kits but that's your style and it does add alot of flash to a not so flashy ride... They are expensice labor wise for a shop to put them on... They have to drill, sand primer and paint those surfaces and to do that properly takes a long time.

ANd those rims rock... My boss might buy them for his '01 Passat GLX 4motion.

 

[QtrHorse 10+ year member]

Here's my question, is the stock filter still in the stock filter housing? If it's not, then that filter set up you have not is working just fine. What benefit is moving that filter about 10in further out really going to do for you? That plastic housing is going to give you cooler temps anyway (the aluminum will hold the heat from the motor and then heat the air going to the motor). What good is a cold air intake if your going to leave the filter open in the engine compartment?

 

[bibby 5,000+ posts]

Like i said before, mine USED to go into a stock air box like yours and it always bugged me too - so i say take that crap off and put the one you want on!

This is what im going to do, i guess it does bug me more than changing it will really help. but im gonna do it, and ill let you guys that care know if it did indeed help any.

As the body kit goes. Like i said, i want a mild kit, i dont want just lips b/c they arent molded together, but i dont want an extreme body kit, all wild designs and shit, too flashy for me, im just not a flashy guy. id rather look poor with a nice ride and a pocket full of money, than look rich with a wild n out buck jeezy car and an empty pocket. and like i said, flashy just isnt me. thats why i chose this kit b/c the front bumber looks like a stock bumper w/ a lip, but its molded together, and added a few extra holes to put billet in. the side skirts are mild, i dont rally like the back bumper, i'd like the same concept on the front, on the back (stock w/ a lip, and molded together. w/ i nice glossy black paint job, and those black wheels.

Shiney, Nice, Wheels, but not overdone, and retarted, jsut tastefull.

This is a pic of a remote control car i built to exactly how i want my car to look when finished. And actually, this body kit is a little wild for my taste. Bad pic, from cam phone, but you get the iddea.

 

[Lurius 10+ year member]

My Intake

It looks like in the picture above the conical filter is meant to be the only filter, obviously this would be idea. This is a hard thing to say because I dont know how a stock civic intake looks, but here goes.. I think as long as the only point of entry of airflow is the conical filter, and there is no filter in the stock box, you should be fine w/ that intake. Air intakes are way over rated, they always say youll see so and so #'s but really the difference is usually minimal, though they do compliment other mods.

-Lurius

 

[marleyskater420 5,000+ posts]

It looks like in the picture above the conical filter is meant to be the only filter, obviously this would be idea. This is a hard thing to say because I dont know how a stock civic intake looks, but here goes.. I think as long as the only point of entry of airflow is the conical filter, and there is no filter in the stock box, you should be fine w/ that intake. Air intakes are way over rated, they always say youll see so and so #'s but really the difference is usually minimal, though they do compliment other mods.
-Lurius

Exactly. If anything itll act like a mini-plenum.