Question on cold air intakes?
I don't mean to be mean, but why don't you just save your money and buy a V8 car? You're putting a cold air intake on a 01-03 civic? You can find cars like buick roadmaster's, crown vics, caddy dts', for the same amount of money from the same years that have v8's. Much more power. In the end, putting this in your civic won't change the performance that much, it won't take a crappy 4 cylinder engine and make it a race car by putting parts into it. You won't find a four cylinder that can compete with a v8 unless it has been turbo'd or something very expensive.
You've asked the same question 4 times, thus the same answer 4 times. Obviously you are only looking for what you want to hear, as you got the correct answer yesterday. monkeyboy answered 14 hrs ago LOL. I saw intake and thought you were talking about something real, like an intake. You know, the kind that actually sits behind the throttle body, and takes a modicum of mechanical intelligence to install. I'm not saying that to insult you, I'm using that as a roundabout way of saying don't buy into the import tuner garbage-market. You can make any car fast, you don't make ANY car fast by dropping junk parts on it, which this falls into. Do yourself a favor. Open your hood and look at the stock air inlet. Where does it get it's air? Surprise! It gets it from outside the engine bay! Where does the one you linked to (and most aftermarket junk) get it's air from? Inside the engine bay? Why do you figure Honda (and every other OEM in the universe) gets engine air from outside the engine bay? Do you think it could be due to heat decreasing performance? If you do say, 5 seconds of searching on google, I'm sure you will have no problem finding from every reputable source around, that cold air makes more power than hot air. The next argument is going to be CFM. If you don't know the corrected CFM flow of the exhaust on your car, or the throttle body CFM, or the CFM of the stock air inlet, or what the ports flow, that argument is invalid.
The tubing is not really the issue. The most important part of a cold air intake is the filter itself. A cheap item will yield poor results. The old saying you get what you pay for is true. Furthermore, if you opt for a more expensive brand they tend to offer CAI systems specifically designed for your car, this eliminates the possibility of placing the filter and intake hoses in the wrong place (too close to the engine resulting in heat soak usually).
