Intake Battle Royale(or not)
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Originally Posted by NewIndyCivic
Thanks Boilermaker. But which website is best to buy the FIPK from? Thanks ahead of time.
Try Froogle.com and punch it in, or go on yahoo or google or something and see who has it.... check honda-tech's vendor sale section too... lots of deals to be had.
Originally Posted by Trix
That intake is from simota racing.
http://www.simota.com/simota.htm
http://www.simota.com/simota.htm
just a troll who likes to laugh at YOU.
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Originally Posted by Boilermaker1
Lesson 1: Never buy parts local, they can always be bought for less on the internet unless you know someone. Especially in Indy.... IIPs prices are rediculous.
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Originally Posted by evopanop
Dude, you rule. Now, the question is, how can I buy it... I don't see any prices are links on their site to buy it anywhere.
ur not goin crazy
Originally Posted by juzthewy
yea there defenitely is no link on where u can buy it. ur not goin crazy
ur not goin crazy
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Rep Power: 0 I got my FIPK from a friend from high school who owns his own shop. Cost me $254.40 total with tax. Not bad considering I got quoted $288.-- from either Autozone/Advanced and then $26-.-- from either Autozone/Advanced.
How's $85 for three runs on a dyno sound? Need more info? Message me for information.
How's $85 for three runs on a dyno sound? Need more info? Message me for information.
that iceman looks promising as does the integra airbox swap but I think they both require some other parts to be relocated and that may be more then you want to do. If you must have an intake and you want to do it cheap and simple get one of the $20 2piece ebay AEM knock offs and just run the top half, that didnt cost me any power and sounded "cool". running it long did cost me power and sounded no cooler. Just be prepared for alot more attention cause even though you dont get much power they are all loud as hell
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Originally Posted by NewIndyCivic
I think I'm back to my original question, sort of. Which type of intake will bring the most power. I'm not talking brand, I know some of you are brand loyal, and I can appreciate that. But what I'm asking is which of the three, CAI, SRI, or V2 offers the most "bang for the buck" along with which requires the least maintenance? I was hoping for less brand specific unless someone has actually had all three types on the same type of sled as me and knows the output to a T. Thanks fellas.
cuz on the box it says cold air intake but look closer and hot damn its an SRI .. anyways ill claim that it improves in the low-end...somewhat.. and it sounds pretty good but other than that its just like any other intake.. expensive but really doesn't do much.. next stop turbo! 
i got an AEM cold air on my 04 and its been pretty sweet so far. awesome sound, looks good in the engine bay and performance i cant really tell, thats not really its specialty, but hey if you really care about performance you wouldnt be asking about intakes on a website.
I recently bought the Iceman And I love it......has great gains especially in the low end.......Way better performance than my old aemv2 ...........I highy recommend the Ice man.......Oh but you do have to relocate the fusebox but its much easyier than you would think.... 
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Rep Power: 424 Well I can understand how the iceman setup works. All it does is put a large volume of air above the engine under vaccum pressure so there's always air available in quantity. Works the same as my teg box, create an air mass somewhere and don't deplete the engine's vaccum pressure to get it, it gives you low end. An open element filter with a constant diameter pipe doesn't do that, the engine has to work for what it gets. It works at high RPMs as the vaccum builds, but at low RPMS, you don't get what you could be getting from other systems because of the large filter area overwhich the small vaccum pressure needs to work.
Anyone who wants to get heavily into the short ram vs. CAI arguement and hot vs. cold air.... above 35 MPH, there's enough air blowing through the engine bay that as long as the filter is in line to some clean path of flowing air, it makes no difference in air intake temp.
Anyone who wants to get heavily into the short ram vs. CAI arguement and hot vs. cold air.... above 35 MPH, there's enough air blowing through the engine bay that as long as the filter is in line to some clean path of flowing air, it makes no difference in air intake temp.
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Rep Power: 0 We shall see, my buddy has his own shop with a dyno here on the southside of Indy. For $100 I get a HP Max Pull plus three 1/4 mile runs. I'll do the original Max Pull with the stock intake in it, plus one 1/4 mile run. Then I'll change the intake and do another run, and we'll see how much it helped/hurt. I'll take pictures of the printouts and post them. Then once I get my exhaust in, we'll run it again and see how much that helped. Obviously this car is headed to faster 1/4 mile runs, we'll just see how much/how long it takes to get there. And yes, I realize I picked a sedan, over the coupe and SI. But frankly, I like the way my sedan looks, and I realize it will take a bit more work to get there, but it will get done. Watch me work, friends.
Originally Posted by NewIndyCivic
We shall see, my buddy has his own shop with a dyno here on the southside of Indy. For $100 I get a HP Max Pull plus three 1/4 mile runs. I'll do the original Max Pull with the stock intake in it, plus one 1/4 mile run. Then I'll change the intake and do another run, and we'll see how much it helped/hurt. I'll take pictures of the printouts and post them. Then once I get my exhaust in, we'll run it again and see how much that helped. Obviously this car is headed to faster 1/4 mile runs, we'll just see how much/how long it takes to get there. And yes, I realize I picked a sedan, over the coupe and SI. But frankly, I like the way my sedan looks, and I realize it will take a bit more work to get there, but it will get done. Watch me work, friends.
Subarus FTW I do NOT miss my civic
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Originally Posted by Silver Civic
If you like it better then your AEM intake, how come you are selling it? j/c
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Rep Power: 0 Just checking out this ad up here for "The Turbonator". You guys think this thing is bogus or what? Obviously for $70, I'm wondering if it is, but ****, who knows. Somebody tell me it's bogus. Please.
Originally Posted by NewIndyCivic
Just checking out this ad up here for "The Turbonator". You guys think this thing is bogus or what? Obviously for $70, I'm wondering if it is, but ****, who knows. Somebody tell me it's bogus. Please.
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Rep Power: 812 waiting for the iceman review. So far K&N and aem have both sucked for the most part. At least K&N didn't lose any power, just not much gain.
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Rep Power: 0 Didn't get to get on the dyno prior to installing the FIPK II. Looks good, sounds good, can't really tell too much, but you know, you think it's 10 inches, she knows it's only 7 and a half, **** it though, it's hard, who cares?
Pics included, enjoy. Install took 47 minutes, btw. Slow?
Pics included, enjoy. Install took 47 minutes, btw. Slow?
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Rep Power: 296 ^^^Took me about the same time to install my FIPK 2. The thing that took me the longest was putting the insulation strip around the heat shield and then putting the big rubber filter adapter onto the tube. Everything else was a breeze.
