WTF?! Look at this plastic Intake

I bet that's one lean burning celica... those scratches by the headlight bezel make me cry...

cant be any worse then this

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the PVC one wouldn't look to bad of they just painted the thing flat black. the bends dont look serious enough to effect the flow, so if they dont make a CAI for your car, you go with what you can. I've seen someone using that flexable dryer duct hosing for one too.

If it works it works.

Well, I'm sure that they don't make any that go where the headlight is supposed to go. Plus he should get the front of the intake sealed off, i mean someone could just take a leak in there, and his whole engine would be screwed.

He probably just does it when he goes to race.

cant be any worse then this

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no thats not that bad because when you close the hood no one sees it! But the celica OMG looks terrible

isnt it bad to have pvc tubes as intakes bc of the fumes it lets off when it heats up?

isnt it bad to have pvc tubes as intakes bc of the fumes it lets off when it heats up?


yeah plus the intake is basically sucking up water by being in the front!

hydrolocking----wait till it pours down rain and there driving it!

I got caught in the rain in mine with no hood and the filter on the throttle body.

um well your lucky? I dont know i doubt that it was raining directly into your throttle body. with this the sill light is were the intake puddles up?

yeah plus the intake is basically sucking up water by being in the front!

hydrolocking----wait till it pours down rain and there driving it!

in both my BMW and my lexus, the factory stock intake comes down to the front. I've driven both in rain so hard that I couldn't see through the water going 20 mph on the freeway with the wipers on full.

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i made a cai out of pvc before, then got a real one and unforchanitly some dumbass stole my pipes. i was swappin the motor at the time and most of the parts you remove where in the car :crying: anyway they do work just fine and its practically free to make one, i dont think they ever get hot enough to smell. Yes i know this one sucks but its only untill i recive my oil feed fitting and bov :evillol:

you motor wont really suck up water unless the filter is fully submerged in water.

that celica one would work well in theory, but that pipe seems to be a TINY bore for an intake doesnt it ?

still a slow ass N/A though

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There's what I did in my car, I bought some 2.5inch (or so) steel tubing in 3 inch lengths and made a connector piece from some hose clamps and wrapped it in black duct tape (to insulate it from the battery)

Its been working great so far and the combined cost of the filter and the tubing/clamps/tape was only about $30 CDN, instead of $100+ for a kit.

Nate

in both my BMW and my lexus, the factory stock intake comes down to the front. I've driven both in rain so hard that I couldn't see through the water going 20 mph on the freeway with the wipers on full.

Yeah but not out of the headlight in a sill where water pulls up. And if you take off your stock airbox there is almost a J shaped tube comming off the bottom if water builds up for it to leak- or at least my teg has that!

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There's what I did in my car, I bought some 2.5inch (or so) steel tubing in 3 inch lengths and made a connector piece from some hose clamps and wrapped it in black duct tape (to insulate it from the battery)

Its been working great so far and the combined cost of the filter and the tubing/clamps/tape was only about $30 CDN, instead of $100+ for a kit.

Nate

dude, that's kinda half ass of an already half ass intake idea:grinyes: take off your stock one off completly and go to home depo or any hardware store and get a 2" to 3" coupler, a couple of 3" curved & stight (can only buy a 10 foot poll if you need more stright one's) pvc pipes, hack saw etc.. and then stop to an auto part store for a crankcase breather filter or you can just drill a hole for the stock one

nah, I think I'll leave it how it is. I'm having no problems with it, and its really not that big of a deal to me. I'm getting better performance and mpg's using the cone filter, and that's all I wanted in the first place.

Thanks for the suggestion though...

Nate

:disappoinman.. whats next?? makes me wana take a crap looking at all that sewer pipe

I really dont understand the point of intake tubes. I have 3 intakes sitting in my garage but I much rather run a stock airbox with the bottom cut off and a k&n filter.

I really dont understand the point of intake tubes. I have 3 intakes sitting in my garage but I much rather run a stock airbox with the bottom cut off and a k&n filter.

There is truth in these words... seems much better than a short ram intake that sucks in hot air and creates shorts hitting the battery and frame every time you hit the brakes.

:disappoinman.. whats next??

if you keep posting negative in the civic/crx forum, banning is next.

say what you want..its ok because we get you civic guys in are fourms all the time and handle it with class. Not this (or you'll be baned) crap. if you were reading everyong else was trash talkin the intake set up as well. i meen for god sake the title is WTF? look at this plastic intake!!. what, because my name isnt civic lover or somthing, i cant agree with everyone else in here?? lets see what the other fourm police have to say:smokin:

There is truth in these words... seems much better than a short ram intake that sucks in hot air and creates shorts hitting the battery and frame every time you hit the brakes.


actually, mine used 2 short on the battery once or twice untill i moved the battery cable a certain way, now it doesnt do it at all, but thats kinda why they put those brackets in the intake kits, it holds the intake back so it doesnt short out on the battery. i kinda agree that short rams do bring warm air in but not a ton of it because its actually sheilded behind the battery. or u can do what some racers do, get a metal box to sit by the filter and put dry ice inside the box, keeps it very cool :)

say what you want..its ok because we get you civic guys in are fourms all the time and handle it with class. Not this (or you'll be baned) crap. if you were reading everyong else was trash talkin the intake set up as well. i meen for god sake the title is WTF? look at this plastic intake!!. what, because my name isnt civic lover or somthing, i cant agree with everyone else in here?? lets see what the other fourm police have to say:smokin:

posting a reply to "get people going" is against the rules. it is not in good fun to "talk crap"

not funny. you've been warned. simple as that.

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