DC Sports Short Ram Intake For Use With 06-11 Honda Civic Si

What to say… I bought this in November 2014 for my now recently sold 09 Si. It ran for 130,000 miles with this intake on it. Sold with it on there.Back then I clearly remember the WOT instant VTEC hit. You can hold it at 6000 and it’s just normal high rpm engine, but slam the gas and its screams. It was cool af when I was 20 lol.Gas mileage? Idk. Ran the stock one for like 2 months lmaoPower? Dunno either. It’s a civic dudeFit? Yes.Throttle response? Definitely the most noticeable thing from any stock Si I drive. You know who has CAIs/SRIs immediatelyEase of installation? Me my dude did it with almost zero toolsQuality? I replaced the filter in like 2020. It’s washable, and I used K&N filter oil the whole time.Fit? Yes..? Main reason I wanted this was no risk of water with lower bumper intakes, and no battery relocation.Functionality? Increases intake temperature and most definitely causes power loss in the middle of summer. Lmao it’s an SRI, we’re here for the noise, not license suspensions.Hopefully Amazon won’t have to ask me to review this anymore. Didn’t know this was even still sold.

I was very skeptical about ordering this intake. There is not a lot of information about it for our 8th gen Civic Si. However, after recently installing it, I must say that the fit and finish are top notch. It's similar in quality to AEM, Takeda, Injen, etc In my opinion, if you are looking for a short ram, why spend more money? It was a pretty easy install, but I used the Injen short ram intake instructions, which you can find on their website.The DC sports instructions included suck. It's basically telling you "Hey, but that part on, hook that thing there. you'll figure it out" No pictures or anything. One piece of advice, I would order some more Honda coolant, because you will lose quite a bit with this installation. Make sure to let your car cool down for a few hours if you can, otherwise coolant will spray you in the face when you pop off the coolant line (ask me how I know)I really like the design of the filter, it has a velocity stack style inlet, with a cone shape on the other end. It looks like a similar design to Apex'i air filter. It was a bit of a squeeze to get the old factory hose clamps on, but they do work just fine.I should mention that I am using a Hondata Flash pro(using the password JDM tune works great). I had no issues, and the AFRs stayed consistent around 13 or so at WOT. I'm not sure how this intake would run on a stock set up, but it should be fine. You MUST reset your ECU just disconnect your battery cable if you are stock, and reflash if you have a flash pro.A note on cold air intakes: I'm know all of the debates out there about which is better a "cold air intake" or "short ram intake" The main issues with a cold air intake is hydro lock (water getting sucked up into your motor) and for the short ram intake, it's heat soak (the filter and pipe becoming so hot that it's loosing power from drawing in warm air from being in the engine bay). Well, I've had both. I actually did suck water into my RSX when I had a cold air intake, so I will never get one again (unless you have an excellent bypass valve) When I changed the oil later that day, a bunch of water came out! the 5hp more you will get with a cold air intake over a short ram intake is not worth the risk, and it's not easy to clean the filter which will get constantly blasted with road grit and water.I looked at the intake air temps before and after this install. On a 50 degree day the stock intake's air temps were around 70*f or so, and with this intake it was around 78*f while moving. I'm sure that will be much higher in the summer, but for now it's really not bad. Once you get moving around 20 mph or more, the temps drop significantly.

The media could not be loaded. I was debating on buying this intake at first because of all the review saying the hoses that came with it were not the correct fit. I was able to install it within 35 minutes and all the hoses that came with it were perfect fit on my 2009 SI. You can definitely hear a sound difference once the VTEC hits highly recommend for the price.

Ok let me try and explain my experience of this intake. To give an idea of what ive thought about this product. And to try and answer the questions I had before I bought this item.My car is a 2008 civic si, and before this intake system I had the "Y" intake on my car.The "Y" intake is basically a cone filter fitted to the MAF and thats it. I didn't get a dyno with the Y intake, but I did got to the track. With a DC sport race header, the Y intake, stg 2 clutch and 12lbs flywheel. I ran 14.335@98.7mph with a 2.209 60'.Ive been able to consistently run that exact time repeatedly.Now on to this intake.......the install for me took 15min, but I knew what I was doing, and was over half way there with the Y intake.I installed it behind the drivers side head light to suck in cooler air (27 degrees cooler according to a temp probe) I didn't need any extra parts or any thing. Just had to drop my battery to the frame. (You can Google this)Now........I just got back from the track and today its 8 degrees hotter heer in Houston then the last time I went. And I ran a 14.223@99.4mph with a 2.060'With the only new thing done to my car being this intake. I picked up almost a 10th of a sec and almost 1mph. Not to sure if its all really dewto the intake, but thats definitely the fastest time ive been able to get. And I ran very close to that 2 times in a row and a 14.302 @99.1If you dont have a 3.5" intake, I honestly do believe this is the best intake for a civic si for your money.