Are you talking about the pipe to the fender?? if so you are just drawing warmer air than stock (same with any short ram). If it is between the filter and the engine.. it sounds like you are bypassing the filter.. which is a huge no no!

 

i'm not bypassing the filter i'll try to put pics up.

 

Cheap performance mod that I just finished:

Filling your front motor mount with 3M Window Weld. It's essentially $12 poly motor mount that nearly eliminates the rocking of the engine when shifting hard. It even makes the manual trans easier to drive when shifting during normal street driving. The vibration in-cabin is about 20% more than stock, versus the intense vibrations of real poly motor mounts and Ingalls/WeaponR ETD's (trust me, I've owned them all).

I took pictures while I was doing this project, so expect a write-up/how-to in the next week or so.

 

will be looking for this

 

Now you got me interested on the gatorade thing

 

i need a camera . all i got is my camera phone and it suxs at close ups. but think about this mod it can kind of be like a cold air if you leave the pipes that go down to the air box on and cover the part that i'm talking about



here's with my camera phone. the orange thing on the intake is the cap (obviously). this was after i had installed the ground wires too

ps i'm at work so i don't know if u can see the pic cause my computer suxs

 

So a translation for this "gatorade mod":

Plug the resonator hole with a gatorade cap, and remove the plastic piece that goes from the airbox to the fender

 

exactly

 

The question is though, how beneficial is it?

 

That mod will make the car louder, but will not increase air flow

 

If you want to plug the resonator hole, you should use something like a sink stopper. Those are tapered, and can't get sucked in.

 

i thought i put this up but i guess i didn't. yeah the cutom intake is more for sound then airflow. u never know but i highly doubt this will add horsepower.

 

Interesting to say the least

 

Relocate "tC" emblem to front grille. Looks awesome! i actually got a compliment on mine today.

 

pics?

 

heres an older pic of my car. that chrome thing in the grille is painted black now.

this is an extremely easy mod... either buy a new emblem or "shave" the one from the back. its like 2 mods in one! and it looks good

 

that "Gatorade" mod is simply hillarious lol. I think it would look better if the cap was painted black, or that could jus be me ;-)

 

nice nice


here is a better version of it without the gatorade cap

http://www.yoursciontc.com/forums/in...c=7096&start=0

 

wow and i thought putting the cap off of a 20oz water bottle in one of my exhaust hangers to keep it from melting the bumper was ghetto lol

 

I could be more ghetto but i don't want the tC to go down the path of the Civic.

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