What is this?

Does anyone know what this triangular box below the factory intake butted up near the airbox on a P10 is? It has a 1" hose into the lower portion of the intake pipe after the airbox. I thought might be a air pre-heater source for when the engine is still warming up, but it is not valved in any way to open or close. It's always open.

i think your talking about the resonator. it muffles the sound of the stock air box.

Without seeing a picture of what you are talking about, here is my assumption. If you are talking about the black plastic container located right after the MAF sensor that is connected to the ribbed intake piping that goes into the throttle body, that is a baffle. It is held on by two 10MM bolts if I am not mistaken and is connected to a metal bracket that holds the relay switches in place. I am writing this from memory so I apologize if I am not 100% accurate on the location.

From what I understand it just keeps the intake sounds quieter. I removed mine and put a PVC pipe cap into the opening. Figured it might assist with a better flow of air into the throttle body. Couldn't hurt.

Mine black box is sitting in my garage right now. I removed it off of my '91 NX2000 too when I had it and there was no bad effects from it. I drove that car for over 6 years that way.

I guess I can safely leave it off. Thanks.

Do you have a CAI? If so, that black box will not be connected anymore. If not, you either have to keep the black box connected or do what I mentioned I did in the previous post and cap it off.

If not you have will air trying to be sucked in after the MAF and the car will run like crap.

Just a thought.

Yes I already have an aftermarket intake and filter system. I had already removed the baffle/resonator some time ago but was just wondering what it was originally used for.

Alrighty then. Unfortunately I still have the stock intake piping with the $tillen/K&N combo. Does me good though. Still pondering the thought of a new pipe and/or possible CAI. But, just pondering.:rolleyes:

I like the AEM myself, but Iceman makes an interesting product that uses a plastic composite instead of aluminum.

The AEM and Iceman intakes are nice, but very expensive. Althought the AEM intake is alluminum coated with a anti heat layer, it stil gets very very hot after a long time driving. Same with the iceman. Believe it or not, steel piping is much better. you'd think it's get really hot, right? nah, after a hot day of stop and go driving, the steel piping is not hot at all. In fact, it's pretty cold!

Who makes a steel intake?

As far as I know, no company makes a steel intake. I bought stel piping out of a JC Whitney catalouge and made it myself. Another good thing about the piping is that it is very thin, so you don't lose any inner diameter when you get it. It also means that it's really light. However if you are buying an intake, the AEM is the best one. THis is because AEM makes their intakes with specific specifications to each car. The length of the tube and the diameter are finely tuned to produce the most power. But the aluminum gets pretty hot.

Hey as it happens I have been thinking of doing the exact same thing you have. I am not satisfied with my custom aluminum intake and want to fashion my own. Can you provide more construction details on what you did and materials you used?

I agree, the AEM is the best one I have found. I don't believe Iceman makes one for the G20.

Well, I do't own a G20, but I have done work and custom stuff on it. All I can say is that it will be very difficult cuz of the air snesor that is basically built into the intake. but I guess that depends on what year you got. the one my friend has is a 95. I made a pop charger for his car. I could'nt see any way to replace the piping from the throttle body, because of all the hoses that come out of that pipe.

The piping before before the throttle body and before and after the MAF is easily replaced. The hoses can be custom run.

So what did you do for your application? Do you have any pictures? I'm just trying to gather tidbits to make my project easier.

Well, a pic of my intake wqouldn't help, if you want a cold air setup, the main problem is lack of space. There is a tiny little hole to get into the lowerair dam. you could prolly just take pliers and make the hole bigger On my friends p10, the battery is also a problem cuz it somewhat blocks the hole. This isn't mine, but same basic idea on a Honda Del Sol...

Here is after you make the cuts...

and here is the finished product. Like I said though, it would probably be harder on a g, but it looks good, huh?

I don't know if it would be harder on a G. You don't have to take off the front bumper at least. :) My friend (owns Protege5) and I are going to try that CAI method sometime.

Yes, I have seen the Del Sol with the home made intake. In fact I was the one that posted a link to his webpage on this forum not long ago.

It would be nice to be able to see some others who have made their own.

It would take a little bit of ingenuity to make an intake for a p10 with the little space you have. But my firend wanted an intake, so I whipped up a pop cahrger for him. this is what it looks like...

whoops, forgot to attach the pic. here it is