yeah dude lots of ppl have done this mod. i know i did like a month after gettin mine. But i heard the CAI's are better, i juss dont got the money for one right now soo yess its a good free mod to do.

 

did you feel any difference? I just did it to mines an hour ago but I didn't take it out on the road yet.

 

umm.. well when ur sitting still just reving it u cant tell, but out on the road u can tell especially on a 2.5 like mine. cuz b4 when i had that piece of plastic on i noticed cruisin at about 60mph and then punchin it to 70 or 80 it wouldnt juss take off it would take a second to go. But now with it off man...you can deffinately tell a difference. Its also alot louder when u accelerate out on the road, im sure you'll like the sound.

 

I did my old 03 2.5S and used a K&N drop in. It sure made the 2.5 sound like it had guts. Seemed like the old "butt dyno" felt a little improvement too.

 

Cai

I got my AEM CAI and that makes A big diff in accel. WHen i first put it on it sound like a beast but i guess that was the engine getting use to the cold air. Now its quiet but when im pressing the beast comes out.

 

I did the wai without taping over the resonator. It still sounds nice. I also have the K&N filter. I don't think it does much for the low-rpm range, but I'm sure it helps horsepower at the high RPMs when it needs to intake air at a faster rate.

 

makes it sound better when u step on it...

 

Did it last night, sounds better when you floor it it doesn't purr anymore it somewhat meows, not a growl though lol

 

haha, we all did this to our cars back in the day

 

:werd:

 

Has anyone pulled down on the silencer though?

 

Just removed the resonator about an hour ago. Sounds even bigger now. I'm just worried that since nothing is covering the entire bottom of the car, what would happen in big puddles of water?

 

I just removed mine last week (same day I bought it LOL)

Anyway, after looking where the resonator goes, unless you are driving with the complete front of the car submerged, I wouldn't even worry about it.

It's so high up in the engine bay, i wouldn't even think twice about water getting up in there.

The SRI sitting on my Corvette is even more open the the road (just a filter crammed on the MAF straight off the TB) and I have never had ANY issues, even in super heavy rain. It takes a LOT to get water up to the top of the engine bay.

Just don't go driving through any ponds or rivers though LOL.

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regarding the OP, I did notice a slight change in torque/power in the upper RPMs. The noise is great too. Much more aggressive. I had a K&N sitting in the garage that happened to be the correct size, so I put that in there too.

 

good question

 

wait are you running a 2.5 with no resonator???




if you are, let's hear from clips!!!!

 

Just making sure I didn't make a mistake, resonator is the silencer hooked up to the intake right?

 

If you're worried about water and your cai just get one of those sock type water filters that covers the air filter cone. Rejects water, but allows in air.

 

Thanks for the idea

 

I personally bought the Injen CAI for my SE-R and after a week the rubber mount ripped off on the cold air section...so I just converted that into a WAI...so much louder....and actually suffered no loss in performance...if anything...it helped the low end a slight bit more

 

The HP you'd gain from the slightly cooler air down low to the warmer air up top is so minuscule that you'd hardly notice the HP gains, and really feel no SOTP difference. About the only change you will notice is the one you mentioned due to shortening the intake path.

I prefer the SRI's myself.

 

ayy i was wondeirng if u guys actually had to take ur front left tire off to take the air intake resonator off? i guess thats what its called?!

 

This was reviewed in great detail a while ago.

I did this to my car before I got my berk V2. You will not notice any performance gains. Anything that you do feel is just in your head. Hell, you'll hardly feel anything with the berk, except that you lose some torque for mid ranged power.

As for the free wai, all it does is makes your engine sound a little meaner.

I took off my resonator and duct taped the hole shut (yeah its ghetto but it works). Tape it good. This is more for reducing the air turbulence in the box, rather than keeping water out.

btw, just turn your wheel on the way to the left before you jack the car up. there is no need to take the wheel off.

 

Hell, you'll hardly feel anything with the berk, except that you lose some torque for mid ranged power.

huh?!

 

oh well alright, thanks

 

Whoa, layin down the law in here. 8-P

 

But if you piggyback your engine you would probably be able to get better gains of an aftermarket intake right?

 

i want pics of a piggybacked engine.....

cause u can piggyback an ECu.... but the engine.....

i gotta see this.....

 

I'm actually doing this now until I can get money for the berk v2 lol. Now what is the point of taping the hole shut below the air filter and just leaving that one hole? I tried driving it with both holes and i hope that covering that one hole gets rid of that resonance sound im getting. I need to go buy some of that gorilla tape because nothing I have here really works.

 

Taping the hole will reduce the air turbulence.

Duct tape will do just fine.

 

alright so an hour after i read this post i said what the hell and tried this cheap WAI mod. which literally took me 5 minutes and i gotta say the sound of it is pretty bad ass like i really installed a berkv2 the WAI that im waiting on.

so ill leave it like this till i get the real thing. like you guys said you dont hear it at an idle or in 1st and 2nd gear too much but the engine def. sounds meaner at a low rpm and in 3rd 4th 5th gears. and it didnt cost me a penny. not bad.

i only took a ride on the backroads for 2 minutes. i cant tell if i gained any HP but the sound alone creates a feeling like it added a lil something.:shift:

 

Yeah im savin up for a week or 2 to get a little extra cash for a berk v2 but tried this...still gotta tape the bottom hole tho cause i dont like the sound i get when i step on it halfway...but has anyone else noticed the mpg increase? or is this just something weird with my car...cause thats a huge jump for something that took 2 min to do.

EDIT: I finally got around to taping up the bottom hole and the resonating sound did go away.

 

I actually did this myself right when I got the car. I didn't know everyone else did this too. haha

I recently put the air scoop back in after driving with it out for the past few months. The car looses its nice deep sound when flooring it and it does seem a little less responsive. Who knows, maybe its all just in my head.

I put the air scoop back in for the dealer to check out another problem I had with my car. I was afraid of them seeing the air scoop taken out then have them charge me for a new one and/or claim that the problem was caused from taking the air scoop out. :/

 

definately true...good thing it isnt hard to do

 

I did this last weekend and it sounds pretty bad ass at 3000 rpm... does the berk v2 intake sound better or about the same?

 

the berk is much better. its a lot louder, and you get a fake turbo spooling noise with it.

 

The camera won't catch the spooling noise from the inside. Also, my exhaust would over power the spooling sound unless I put the camera right in front of the intake. (The sound only occurs if the engine is under load, meaning you can't do an idle rev to hear it).

 

ahh gotcha...deff considerably louder than the free wai tho? lol