Quick Intake Question

quick intake question take a look @ this...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2424925582&category=38634

im lookin to buy it, but I was confused...dont Si and LX models have different intakes because of the fuel injection? or is this just me? usually you see LX/DX models together and Si by thereselves...just wanted to know before bidding...is this right?

thanks
Clif

its the same size tubing i have on my intake..the hood hits it everytime..it rubs agaisnt my battery and doesnt really go down all that far..but it still works

thats an EX/SI intake ... it will work on your LX but i reccomend getting one of the straight ones like I got cause I got no problems with it at all.. heres a pic

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p47bcaf792b83c737e12d8e7b68ac39a6/fbea9353.jpg

Yeah, my hood hits my intake too, but it fits...plus its from procarparts. Thats who I get a lot of my stuff through, and they are great to deal with.

check this out...

http://www.procarparts.com/store-detail.asp?sku=HND%2DCVC%2D8891%2DCHSI%2DXXXX%2DCI SX

yea i JUST got a new intake from them for like 40 bux and came here in less than a week, VERY good people to deal with. i also got a shaved door handle kit from someone else good but the name escapes me now???

dont waste your money on these cheap immations, buy AEM, I bought one of these cheap CAI and months later bought the AEM.

Hey NJ1989SI, I got one of those cheap knockoffs from ebay, and when I put it in, I noticed more torque. I did notice a change...does AEM promise more change that what I got? I mean, how much of a difference was it between the knowckoff and the AEM?

I dont know what the difference is between the AEM and the generic ones but i would think u might get better flow from the AEM since it is a 1 piece, and the one from that other site is a 2 piece. I may be wrong but i dont know. I love my AEM CAI though.

I don't think the differences between an AEM and a generic brand are going to be THAT noticable. There most likley will be small differences because AEM uses K&N filters, while cheaper companys obvoiously use cheaper materail in their cone filters. They make twisty ones and all sorts of crazy stupid shit.

Personally, I'm going to pick up an intake as soon as I find a cheaper company that makes a CAI for 90-93 tegs. I'm going to paint it black with some temp resistant paint, or see about covering it with something different to keep temps down a bit more (not that its THAT big of a deal), and replace the filter from whatever it comes with to a K&N. I really doubt that the differnce in tube shape is what makes the power difference from a AEM to a generic brand.. So I think a cheap one will do just fine, but try and make it more like an AEM at the fraction of the cost.

I had a shorty intake on my car when I had the ZC, and then when I got the B16 but it ditched it because all it did was make noise. I went back to the stock airbox with the bottom half cut off (my very first mod :)) and I didn't notice a difference. It was just as good when I cut my airbox as when I put on that hot air intake.. Minus the noise from the filter.

I don't see why people buy short intakes anymore.. Buy a CAI, buy the bypass valve.. End of worries, and colder air.

Sorry, that was a stupid long post. :bloated:

Originally posted by SiZ

I don't see why people buy short intakes anymore.. Buy a CAI, buy the bypass valve.. End of worries, and colder air.



MAYBE because some people wanna take out dey headlight befo dey run em at da trizzack or go out on da skreets homie! HAHAH:icon16: :bigthumb:

oh great ... another aem vs generic post ... knew i took the aem shit out of my sig too soon.

its a damn pipe with a filter on it ... they are all the same ... dont buy into dyno proven bullshit hype ... get the generic intake then put the money you saved toward a header or mpfi if you have a dx/lx

Originally posted by Melt
oh great ... another aem vs generic post ... knew i took the aem shit out of my sig too soon.

its a damn pipe with a filter on it ... they are all the same ... dont buy into dyno proven bullshit hype ... get the generic intake then put the money you saved toward a header or mpfi if you have a dx/lx


seriously, its a filter on a stick!!... you're paying for a name on that stick...if anything affects the performance, its the quality of the filter...so buy a cheap stick and a quality cone filter :)

But the AEM intake's come w/ a sticker...i think thats why they cost so much, lol :iceslolan

Originally posted by 90civicracer
But the AEM intake's come w/ a sticker...i think thats why they cost so much, lol :iceslolan

yea, a CARB sticker. Im happy i got mine off a friend and didnt have to pay full price :D Thanks again irvin (EF_LSVtec) :)

Originally posted by GTA


yea, a CARB sticker. Im happy i got mine off a friend and didnt have to pay full price :D Thanks again irvin (EF_LSVtec) :)

Yeah they do come w/ the CARB sticker...but im talkin about those 2 cool stickers that u can stick on your ride to flaunt what u got....lol those things are sexy

yes ... lets pay extra for a carb sticker because its oh so hard to put the stock box back on :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Melt
yes ... lets pay extra for a carb sticker because its oh so hard to put the stock box back on :rolleyes:

you do know if you get pulled over and have to pop your hood, you get sent to the ref if you have non-carb legal parts on it right? I'd rather not to have to deal with ref fees then ticket fees if i get pulled over.

a cop would need to have reasonable cause to perform a search in order to pop my hood ... ive been pulled over many times with the intake installed and not once asked to pop my hood or even had comments about my exahust.

well good for you. i agree if you arent getting pulled over a lot and only have an intake to swtich out for smog then go for a cheaper one. personally when im do my car up a little bit more, and if i am still living in cali, then i am not going to wanna hassle switching stuff every two years. But I dont really plan on staying in cali, so i might have some carb legal stuff not on my car. The aem cai w/ bypass vavle i got one hell of a deal on or else i woulda used the rs akimoto short ram i just picked up before i got offered the aem :D

oh and i have gotten a ticket for my exhaust, so im a lil more careful when it comes to cops.

what happened with your ticket? ... your exhause didnt seem that loud to me

Originally posted by Melt
what happened with your ticket? ... your exhause didnt seem that loud to me

got a ticket for modified exhaust, cop said i wasnt supposed to have anything other than stock. it is the cops decision if its able to be written off or not and mine wasnt able to so i just paid it off.

oh damn ... thats pretty gay .... now its a lot harder for them to pull shit like that ... how long ago was this?

ahahahahah...just looked at the ticket to get the date, 4-20-02

dude these laws are getting out of hand...

little bit before i signed up for AF :iceslolan .... i just checked my stack of warning tickets (got three of em in a 5 month period lol) and the first time I was ever pulled in the civic was on july 1, 02 and that was cause I was doin 39 in a 30. Cop didnt mention shit about the clears or exhaust like i thought he would have ... didnt have the intake yet though.

I got a real ticket too in it for runnin a red light in august 2002 but i just went to court and got it reduced and did traffic school so im all good ... lately i been drivin kinda stupid though cause its summertime so hopefully i slow down and be careful ... or at least not get another real ticket cause that shit will go on my record.

Yeah the laws are quite out of hand it seems....i got pulled over for my exhaust once and got it checked and it was easily over the limit but he just gave me a warning but my friend a couple weekends ago got a ticket pulling into the local hangout area just for having a modified exhaust. And all he has is a magnaflow muffler and its not even that loud.

i aint really a cop hater or anything either ... i still feel the last 2 warnings i got were harassment though, like when i accidently squealed em coming out of autozone, or when my lic plate light was burned out :rolleyes: