What is this DIY intake box mod?

[yessir240]

Heard something about this in another post and searched and didnt find much so what exactly is this

[ILikeMy240sx]

You mean removing the silencer to allow air to come in more freely?

Just get a cone filter.....

[yessir240]

someone said something of taking something off and making it sound better...? im really not sure

[yessir240]

and if i am to get a cone filter i will purchase a whole intake but this required buying nothing

[ILikeMy240sx]

Yup thats the silencer... It's a "device" that muffles the air intake sound... I took mine off when I put in the AEM intake.

EDIT: you can just put a filter w/o buying the intake but... if you want to just remove the silencer go ahead and do it.. Doesnt hurt.

[yessir240]

ok i want to do this but honestly im not sure how .. and where its located insturctions apreciated

[brisknfade]

There is like maybe 2 or 3 screws to remove and thats it.

Just take off the lining that is in the driver side fender, then you'll see a black box with a tube leading up to where the intake box is. Just unscrew that black box since it is only held in there by like 3 screws or nuts. Take it out and thats it. All it really seemed to do was make the engine sound "meaner" nothing else really.

[sensibleS13driver]

It goes a lil something like this...

take the filter box off, take off the snorkely thing, undo the 4 clips that hold the two halves together

checkpoint: you have the snorkel, throw it away you have the filter, put it aside you have the upper half of the box, put it aside then you take the bottom half, and you take your saw and you cut the bottom of it so that if you were to reach up from the bottom you would feel filterthen put the bottomless box back together and back on the car and it should sound good enough to be free:)

[yessir240]

took off the Y shaped piece and it sounds somewhat meaner

[yessir240]

ok i sawed the filter housing and took out the black box ... my neighbor said it wont pass inspection next month because of that and that i wont get as good of gas mileage is this true

[Bruno240]

no, your gas milage might go up since air might be flowing easier. and it depend what they check in the inspection. when my brother had his car inspected becuase he baught the car out of state they didnt even open the hood, the just checked the VIN number on the door sil to the one on the dash and check the odometer and that was it. so i woudl worry too much about it. i doubt they remove the air filter during an inspection

[mkory]

I've always wondered what the purpose of that bottom box was. My car came with the Y pipe already taken off, and when I put my hand over the hole in the lower box I can't feel it pull any air. What's it do?

[yessir240]

took the y pipe off and drove for a day it sounded Decent but blew dirt every where but it sounds a TON better now that i did the above mentioned and my car was purchased new by the previous owner in Georgia and its now in NC

[ricebike]

I've always wondered what the purpose of that bottom box was. My car came with the Y pipe already taken off, and when I put my hand over the hole in the lower box I can't feel it pull any air. What's it do?

it's a resonator....to quiet it down.... says Captain Obvious

j/k

[AkademikONE]

It also sounds pretty mean at WOT. =D

Just take out the resonator box, it adds 0.234234643453335543 HP