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"Brickman" (legomaniacman) 11/04/2018 at 19:46 • Filed to: None

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I hate my stock intake on the S10 2.2, especially in the summer and when I need to work on anything around the air intake assembly. (A/C, belt, etc) The radiator heats up the intake and the hot air bogs down the already anemic engine.

I put an eBay aluminum air intake!

I do need to fit the air temp sensor into the tube, the provided grommet is too small or I need to stretch it some more. (zip tied it to the fuse box for now)

Engine is slightly louder when accelerating heavily, strangly it s ounds more like a stock honda S2000 . More torque too, I actually accelerated over 55mph in 5th gear hauling a 800lb riding mower up a bridge, I’d used to have to go into 3rd to increase speed.... I need a LS swap!

What is unexpected is that I am actually burning less gas than before! It would take a 1/4 of gas to go to work and back home, now I am burning 1/8 of a tank.

What a lump of plastic (now it takes up room in the shed attic.)

I forgot to post about this since September, when I actually installed the intake. It’s doing fantastic and hasn’t fell off :)

190e30-Now with COSWORTH > Brickman 11/04/2018 at 20:09

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“Big Booty Judi” was sold to me with an intake and headers on the 2.2, and while I’ve never driven a stock 2.2 it gets out of its own way just fine. Spins contantly in second in the rain.

Brickman > 190e30-Now with COSWORTH 11/04/2018 at 20:44

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I do have to be careful when taking off in the wet, the rear weigh s nothing :)

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Brickman 11/05/2018 at 07:12

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I’ve yet to find a vehicle from the 90s-early 00s that a simple intake/exhaust upgrade doesn’t help performance and mileage.

Intake designs in this era were complete garbage and generally exhaust was undersized and overchoked. It makes sense that opening up flow would greatly help performance/economy.

Mustafaluigi > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 11/05/2018 at 11:45

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I think the problem was that most of the top tier performance cars were still limited in power due to capabilities that in order to have lower level cars not outshine, they would deliberately  dog the engine to keep power levels down. I think on the LT1 F-Bodies, a simple intake and shorty header upgrade was worth gobs of power all because they short changed the motor so it wouldn’t out perform the Corvette with the same engine.

Lokiparts > Brickman 11/16/2018 at 08:06

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Oooh, nice. I remember actually modifying a Civic Intake to fit my old 98 S10 back before anyone was really selling proper aftermarket intakes for them . It had a very different routing, but it still made a huge difference.

I would suggest doing an E-Fan next . They have probably been the second biggest improvement on my 4cyl S10s.

The s econd g en S10 not as much as the first, since it has an actual fan clutch instead of a lump of metal just bolted directly to the engine . But it still makes a considerable difference, especially in the summer.