"Coty" (coty) 05/21/2015 at 13:35 • Filed to: None

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Friend took the top of the airbox off his stock intake for more induction noise. Any danger there?

Party-vi > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:35

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On what car?

trmoore09 > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:36

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As long as the air still goes through the filter, I don’t think so. IIRC, a lot of people do this with the S2000. In fact, I’m pretty positive mine didn’t have an air box lid.

Coty > Party-vi 05/21/2015 at 13:37

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Focus ST. Filter still there and all that.

Coty > trmoore09 05/21/2015 at 13:37

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Yeah filter is still there.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:37

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As long as it's still filtered, no.

trmoore09 > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:38

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You should be fine then.

HammerheadFistpunch > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:39

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There is a chance that it could throw an airflow code, but probably not. As you’ve said in other comments, the air is still going through the filter.

Party-vi > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:39

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That seems very stupid. What’s holding in the air filter? Also, with the top of the airbox off it’s sucking in air from the engine compartment and not the front of the car.

Coty > HammerheadFistpunch 05/21/2015 at 13:40

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That’s what I figured, just wanted to check. I pulled mine off too after these comments, haha.

HammerheadFistpunch > Party-vi 05/21/2015 at 13:42

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yeah, its going to be warmer induction air for sure...no performance benefit and possibly a performance loss, but if its just for sound and you don’t care about the potential for loosing your filter (or have a workaround) then sure.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:49

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My professional mechanic friends frown on that sort of thing, so I’ve stayed away from it.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Coty 05/21/2015 at 13:50

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Is there something to hold the filter in place with the airbox top off? All of my cars use the airbox halves to hold the filter in place.

Coty > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/21/2015 at 13:54

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There’s a tab that sticks into the intake, you’d have to really pull on it to be able to get it out.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Coty 05/21/2015 at 14:05

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Is the whole rim of the air filter held in place? I would be nervous of the filter bouncing around if the whole perimeter isn’t clamped. It wouldn’t take much junk sneaking around the filter to really score up your cylinder walls.

Sam > Coty 05/21/2015 at 14:14

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It basically becomes a hot air intake, so it will probably make a bit less power.

Coty > Sam 05/21/2015 at 15:04

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We’ll see if I notice it.