Air Intake
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From: SoCal
One main reason to consider as to why stock intakes are designed the way they are is to reduce noise.
Remove the black plastic funnel off the blue aircleaner on the 12A cars... NOISE.
Remove the black rubber connector from the GSL-SE airbox... NOISE.
Aftermarket filter system on an RX-8... LOUD NOISE.
Same goes for funnel intakes on cars that don't have an AFM like a Honda Civic... NOISY.
It doesn't matter what shape or design is as long as it is open, it will be louder than stock.
But to us aftermarket tuner-types who want to extract the most out of our cars, we welcome such noises.
Using the same analogy, my SE breaths cold air not through one or both nostrils, but though a wide open mouth
Remove the black plastic funnel off the blue aircleaner on the 12A cars... NOISE.
Remove the black rubber connector from the GSL-SE airbox... NOISE.
Aftermarket filter system on an RX-8... LOUD NOISE.
Same goes for funnel intakes on cars that don't have an AFM like a Honda Civic... NOISY.
It doesn't matter what shape or design is as long as it is open, it will be louder than stock.
But to us aftermarket tuner-types who want to extract the most out of our cars, we welcome such noises.
Using the same analogy, my SE breaths cold air not through one or both nostrils, but though a wide open mouth
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From: Grand Rapids Michigan
Originally Posted by LongDuck
Well, the way I see it, Mazda had the right idea in the 84SE's with the EFI required airbox and MAF sensor as one unit, but the implementation of having it draw air from in front of the radiator was flawed. When they tried to fix this in the 85SE's, they just made the tube longer and the 'straw-up-the-nose' that much longer and harder to breath through - AND, they connected the other end of the 'straw' to another hot air source; the worst of both worlds.
At least in my solution, the 'straw' is pointed at the front of the car toward the incoming air, and I'd put my one-cold-nostril up against your two-hot-nostrils in any uphill fat chick hauling contest in my home state.
You up for that? Well,... are you?
At least in my solution, the 'straw' is pointed at the front of the car toward the incoming air, and I'd put my one-cold-nostril up against your two-hot-nostrils in any uphill fat chick hauling contest in my home state.
You up for that? Well,... are you?
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