I was at the the muffler shop the other day gettin my new muffler put on when a same yr model civic pulled up i started talking to the guy and saw on his engine he had taken the intake manifold off and and ran his cold air intake straight in to the throttle body wat is the purpose in this and is there any thing to really gain from it other than sound like the guy said

 

did you actually see this setup? Because it's not exactly possible. The intake already runs directly into the throttle body... and if there were no intake manifold, I'm not sure how the throttle pedal would work, where the fuel rail/injectors would be, or anything like that. You need an intake manifold.

Are you sure he wasn't talking about Individual Throttle Bodies?

 

i looked the engine over and this piece was missing and the cold air intake goin straight in to the throttle body it was on the dx model but from wat ive seen the only difference between the ex and the dx is the vtec solenoid but ive post a pic of wat was missing on the car i may have been missing something it jus looked a little off to me if i see the guy again ill get a pic of it http://www.dreamlightstudios.net/hon.../manifold2.jpg

 

did it look like this?

 

nothing was commin off the block as i remembver i didnt look that long jus a quick glance but i jus remember the cold air intake goin straight down in to the lower part of the throttle body like i said ill look for the car again and get pics for you guys to see

 

i think you saw a y7 intake manifold were the throttle body sits facing up at the hood

 

lol, I bet that that's it.

 

yep that its thnx it looked wierd to me at first so i had to ask

 

lol I didn't even think about a vertical throttle body/intake mani... yeah, that's a stock manifold with just a cai.