i have had this idea for a custom intake for awhile now. if i put basically a "Y" intake pipe on my throttle body then sent to pipes down to the front of the car and ran them both into an intercoller, would they suck air from each other? im trying to think of most things that people have not done so my car is basically my own
didnt realize how much potential my cavalier had when i first bought it...
Think about what you just wrote there.
If you hook each side to an intercooler where is the fresh air going to come from? You have created a closed system.
Air flows inside an intercooler from one side to the other, none of the outside air flowing through an intercooler can be sucked in the motor.
Think of it like a rad, the air from a turbo goes into the intercooler (this is the coolant), outside air flow through the intercooler and cools the air thats passing through it inside (this is the outside air same as a rad).
i realized that as soon as i posted it. im thinking about running intake piping to an intercooler then a pipe off the other side to a filter. again, im looking for something to make my car my own and something that no one has in my town
didnt realize how much potential my cavalier had when i first bought it...
Lol.......you mean like this???
Dont waste your time.
"Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers"-Colin McRae
except mine will be clean and not be on a pos honda.
didnt realize how much potential my cavalier had when i first bought it...
There is nothing clean about that concept. 1 - all you are doing is adding a restriction into the intake system which will cause you to lose power. 2 - FMIC use ambient air to cool the heated compressed air, you cant cool 70* air with 70* air. There just isnt anywhere for the heat energy to go. In the end, nothing about that set-up will increase power and you will just be flamed for the stupid idea of an interfooler.
its an old concept. time for something new to take the reigns. - Z yaaaa
i live in a cold state.
didnt realize how much potential my cavalier had when i first bought it...
That doesnt effect what i said above. 70* was just an example, you can replace it with any temp that you like and the out come will still be the same.
its an old concept. time for something new to take the reigns. - Z yaaaa
Do what you will but we're trying to tell you that the concept won't work.
A simple air intake will yield more in power production than what is pictured here with the Honda.
Good luck though with your plans.
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Thank you Dave and JBO! 
i think i might ditch the intercooler and just end up putting the filter somewhere in my bumper
didnt realize how much potential my cavalier had when i first bought it...
Now there is a solid idea that will work....
its an old concept. time for something new to take the reigns. - Z yaaaa
would just standard intercooler piping work?
didnt realize how much potential my cavalier had when i first bought it...
just buy a cold air intake ... be done with it...
your motor makes 90 - 100 WHP, so virtually anything you do besides boost, and a bit of tuning, will not gain you any bit of major power gains...
Mystic02VA (GME Chat) wrote:just buy a cold air intake ... be done with it...
your motor makes 90 - 100 WHP, so virtually anything you do besides boost, and a bit of tuning, will not gain you any bit of major power gains...
thanks for fixing my post. lol
freelancer1988 wrote:Mystic02VA (GME Chat) wrote:just buy a cold air intake ... be done with it...
your motor makes 90 - 100 WHP, so virtually anything you do besides boost, and a bit of tuning, will not gain you any bit of major power gains...
thanks for fixing my post. lol
yeah that quote fail was bugging me
there are those intercooler 'like' air filter's you can buy that supposidly help with the 'cool air' effect. you basically just run ur pipe down like on that honda but the intercooler actually serves at the air filter with air that can be 'breathed' through it.
hot rod tv did an arospeed one on a honda way back in the day. wasnt a bad idea, really... but i dont think its really worth it.
pics can be seen here...
http://www.honda-acura.net/forums/parts-classifieds/180996-honda-civic-intercooler-style-cold-air-intake-chrome.html
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^All that looks like is a restrictive design of FAI. I say that because the incoming air that's flowing over the filter must make a sharp, "right-angle" turn to make it's way into the pipe. The idea (Collect fresh-air from the highest aerodynamic pressure-point on the vehicle as it rolls down the road (The front-end) and direct it via the inlet-tract to the TB) is sound, but the execution i flawed.
A smarter idea would be to buy a encapsulated cone-style filter housing & a velocity-stack of the same inside diameter as the housing's inlet--and matching diameter tubing of various smooth bends & straights--and build a system that opens at the front-bumper (Or the like, to collect the air) and smoothly (And as directly as possible!) flows into & out of the filter-housing and on into the throttle-body. Viola! You just built an effective "Ram-Air" system, much like the design Oldsmobile made in the mid-'60s... And it worked too!!
Go beyond the "bolt-on".
this thread just made my morning
gonna get a intercooler, intercooler piping and clamps, buy a filter, and then mount it all for a total of 3hp gain
sweettttt, but if its to be different, DO IT!!!
accept the laughter
running rich? turn the boost up
What I would do is a 90 degree fitting from your throttle body up. Cut a hole in your hood with a velocity stack, exactly 8.5 inches, and put the filter on top of that. This will give you a MAI (Mediocre Air Intake) which will net 7.5 hp @ idle.
