With my older Civic, i found Spoon Sports and T1R to be my top favorites for performance. I used some Injen parts in the past, but i ended up selling them within weeks of buying it.
What are your favorite aftermarket performance brands?
I'm curious what would you guys normally put on your Civic? Looking for something that doesn't cost too much but has decent gains. Assuming the 2012 Civic still uses the same K20 motor that's in the 8th gen Civic. What would you guys recommend?
I'm curious what would you guys normally put on your Civic? Looking for something that doesn't cost too much but has decent gains. Assuming the 2012 Civic still uses the same K20 motor that's in the 8th gen Civic. What would you guys recommend?
from past experience with civics im going to have to say real cold air intakes. not one of those cheap knockoffs. like one thats been researched and tested by the manufacturer. something like k&n would be a good one to go with. it will give you a lil bit of a hp bump but it will also give you a noticeable change in the engines responsiveness.
I would have to agree with car crazy! Intake is the cheapest bolt-on mod u can do and it defintely gives the car more pep and it sounds a bit better and deeper, Plus it helps your car breathe better. I personally had Injen SRI, but AEM and K&N is good too. Afetr this you should go for your exhaust and then header for last cause thats usually the most expensive and if you plan to do it yourself it takes longer than installing intake or exhaust but you'll get some true power out of all 3!
Ok so here is the question....which one are you running and why? Reason i ask is because you can run a cold air intake but you run a high chance of sucking in water during winter which could be a huge problem, or you run a short ram and now your sucking in hot air which could actally decrease and hurt decrease your numbers? Or maybe you run the cold air during the dry months and the ram during the winter.....so what's your choice?
I don't really know much about this kind of thing, but I've seen a lot of setups with the CAI and it has a kind of cover on the filter, maybe that's to prevent the water?
But, I'ld rather have a CAI because of the better all around performance, short rams are good for low end power (so i hear) while the engine is still cool. I think people mostly run short rams because of it's availability in that it's easy to find and usually cheaper than cold airs as well as it's interchangeability in that the same intake can usually work on a number of different vehicles.
CAI's are a bit harder to find locally because they are made specifically to fit your engine, thus it's lesser availability.
I had a CAI on all of my cars. The EP3 sucked up water...only a little bit and stalled...but started right back up.
Then with the FA5, I came close to sucking up water when it rained a ton in San Antonio. So I had enough and just made my own "Icebox"...basically used the stock intake and redid the rest of the intake tubes to capture air below. I had more hp with that than with other FA5's running SRI when I went to a dyno day.
So in the end, from my experience...I'll be sticking with a custom intake utilizing the stock intake box.
I had a CAI on all of my cars. The EP3 sucked up water...only a little bit and stalled...but started right back up.
Then with the FA5, I came close to sucking up water when it rained a ton in San Antonio. So I had enough and just made my own "Icebox"...basically used the stock intake and redid the rest of the intake tubes to capture air below. I had more hp with that than with other FA5's running SRI when I went to a dyno day.
So in the end, from my experience...I'll be sticking with a custom intake utilizing the stock intake box.
If I was to get this new 2012 Civic SI Sedan, I'll also be getting a CAI but will only get the CARB legal one as I'm from California. I guess it won't be till a long time.
i think you will be surprised how quick they become available.....the non SI models havent changed so they should already be out.....the SI model though, with the new motor, isnt really new since its a swap from a TSX. Im betting the engine bays are very similiar so they should be available pretty quick. Im in CA as well so i feel ya on the CARB stickers
I had a 99 accord V6 coupe with a CAI. I only had trouble in big puddles, or when I went through a car wash (ya the undercar sprayers are death to CAI's)
It sounded amazing, and performed way better than any SRI I've had!
Lets just say if you live somewhere with lots of snow/rain this probably isnt the best idea. I think im going to run a CAI setup from March to Nov and then switch to a SRI for the few months that we havea 5% chance of rain.
Lets just say if you live somewhere with lots of snow/rain this probably isnt the best idea. I think im goingto run a CAI setup from March to Nov and then switch to a SRI for the few months that we havea 5% chance of rain.
well that depends on you. im one of those "rather be safe then sorry" guys when it comes to not wanting to blow up my motor.....being that you are on the east coast i imagine that you get some pretty nasty weather there and that the SRI maybe be a safe and better choice for you. we dont really get rain here so there isnt much to worry about for me.
Hm I Spose I'd go with the SRI. Regardless neither have very high gains so might as well go with the safer one. What I'm really excited to change is the exhaust
Most of the time the air filter of the cai would have to submerge from hitting huge puddles but there are a few people who claimed there wasn't even a huge puddle and still hydrolock their motor. Injen does have a hydro shield for the cai air filter but it only repels water droplets, not protecting the air filter when it submerges.
But Talon is right, It is better to be safe than sorry. If it rains alot then a sri is the way to go...
In Nor Cal, we do get rain too but it is not too serious. I have the cai on all year and there were some close times i drove into puddles risking.
keep that sh1t out there!!! lol our winter right now is 61 degree's and even thats a little on the cold side
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