Have any of you taken any of the honeycombs out of your intake?

[metasonic]

Have any of you taken any of the honeycombs out of your intake? I realize that the middle one is necessary for the MAS to read correctly, but do you think taking the ones out on the side will put anything at risk? I tried it and it runs a little rougher..I put them back in since i wasn't sure if I was hurting anything. If it doesnt hurt anything, maybe it would lean the car out a little bit?

 

[Copper 95 GSX]

Dont do it...From what I have heard that is more of a 1g mod. A kid I know did that on his 2g and it idles and runs like crap...Later,
Cale

 

[4G92-T]

I've tried it too. (remove the honeycomb screen)

THe iddling was trembling like shit.

The honey comb is sort of regulating the MAF senore. Withtou the honey comd, the MAF is screwed.

Corrct if I'm wrong. Thanks.

 

[lhhc]

don't take the honeycombs out..theyre designed to straighten the air before it enters the rest of the intake system. I took them out of my 95 GSX and now my car idles like crap. Just leave them in, and if anyone thinks theyre a big dsm tuner or modder and tells you to take them out...kick them in the balls.

 

[igs]

Why would you want to take them out?

 

[igs]

Why would you want to take them out?

 

[lhhc]

either cause some idiot told ya to, or ya think its going to let more air in, or youre a newbie and some iditio told you to and you don't know any better.

 

[metasonic]

i was told if you take out some of them, it could increase airflow and lean the car out a little (not the midde one) just the side ones.

 

[lhhc]

well just don't take any of them out, its not really going to increase your airflow. Like I said before, theyre there for a reason....to straighten out the air before it enters the rest of the MAF sensor so the ecu can get an accurate reading of how much air is coming in. So if you take them out, then the air is just dumped in and the ecu can't get an accurate reading, therefor your idle turns to shit. If you're questioning it, don't do it, its irreversable and new MAFs are not cheap.

 

[doug]

I took my side honeycombs out a couple days ago. Car idled and ran rough for a few minutes, but now it's fine. I think the ECU just had to "relearn" with the new airflow, kinda like when you unhook the battery.

The reason I removed them was that I was on the dyno Saturday and hooked up to the wideband O2, which indicated I was running insanely rich (off the scale, in fact), so I was looking for a way to increase the A/F ratio a little until I can get some sort of "real" tuning tool (such as DSMlink). The car does seem to run better now-- I'd be interested to see how much (if any) it did affect the A/F...I can't wait to do another dyno run to see.

 

[eclipsed95]

I ran without mine for a week. My idle was rough, the engine didn't pull the same, and the car put out a gas smell that it never had before. I put them back in and the car was back to normal.

 

[IFLYBYU]

Originally posted by lhhc
don't take the honeycombs out..theyre designed to straighten the air before it enters the rest of the intake system. I took them out of my 95 GSX and now my car idles like crap. Just leave them in, and if anyone thinks theyre a big dsm tuner or modder and tells you to take them out...kick them in the balls.

A friend of mine said he knew ooooooh so much about dsms and when he screwed with my BOV venting to the atmosphere and messed with my damn honeycombs my car would freakin drop from like 2500 to stalled....then i go to the track and go from running 13.2s in Canada on 91octane to freakin 14.1s on 94octane.....I went home after and wanted to kick him in the balls!!!!!!!!!!

 

[headrec*]

This is a 1G mod ONLY. Don't mess with the 2G MAS.

 

[doug]

Seems to be a case-by-case basis. My car runs a lot better with the side ones taken out. So if you don't have any first-hand experience with it, don't post.