Changing Your Air Intake? Read This First

One of the first mods that i did with my 7th Gen Civic was to replace the stock air filter with a K&N drop in. While that gave some additional gains in terms of throttle response, I soon discovered that a change to a cold air intake system would make a more significant improvement.

With the cold air intake, one thing to note is to ensure that the intake pipe is not placed in a position that is too exposed to rainwater should heavy rains fall. An effective solution during the installation of the cold air intake would be to install a shield for the cone filter to ensure that only the dense cold air enters and not water. The shield also serves an addtional purpose of reducing the amount of heat entering the engine block.

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