Throttlebody coolant Bypass mod

[SI-dan]

I just wanted to chime in and say, this was a great mod for my car. The SRI is sooo much cooler now. I can even touch it after sitting in traffic, which wasn't the case before. I also added an extension to move the air filter farther back and lower to try and get a little bit more cold air. Anyways, all in alll the car runs much better and better response. I highly recommend this mod for ayone in CA. Thanks

[BATANG CITY JAIL]

any pics?

[reaper702]

Originally Posted by BATANG CITY JAIL

any pics?

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[k20beast]

what is the bypass mod?? and yes any pics yet?

[chilipepper]

Originally Posted by SI-dan

I just wanted to chime in and say, this was a great mod for my car. The SRI is sooo much cooler now.
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+3pics, and vendor info? price?, where you got it? etc...

[KShirza1]

Originally Posted by k20beast

what is the bypass mod?? and yes any pics yet?

you dissable the coolent bypass to the TB... not good if you live in areas with cold winters cause it helps the TB not stick in freezing temps.

no HP gain but claimed better response from all k-series owners that do this

[eugenekim.net]

haha there's a diy up for this guys. search and you'll find the pictures, instructions or whatever and there isn't a vendor.

[chilipepper]

Originally Posted by eugenekim.net

haha there's a diy up for this guys. search and you'll find the pictures, instructions or whatever and there isn't a vendor.

[BATANG CITY JAIL]

^^ nice looking seat you got buddy...

[k20beast]

oh just cap it off? lol then nah i dont need pics i just wasnt for sure if thats all it was...

[chilipepper]

Originally Posted by BATANG CITY JAIL

^^ nice looking seat you got buddy...

Thanks! I love 'em. They're just leather over the stock seats and they cost me about $1595 through McDavid Honda in Houston where I purchased the car. McDavid used Classic Soft Trim (http://www.classicsofttrim.com) to do the leather work. Many Honda dealers won't do this 'cause of the air bags, but McDavid did. I don't think Classic works directly with the public - only through dealers, etc. They're nation wide, I think.

[NIGHTHAWKSI]

Originally Posted by SI-dan

I just wanted to chime in and say, this was a great mod for my car. The SRI is sooo much cooler now. I can even touch it after sitting in traffic, which wasn't the case before. I also added an extension to move the air filter farther back and lower to try and get a little bit more cold air. Anyways, all in alll the car runs much better and better response. I highly recommend this mod for ayone in CA. Thanks

this made your sri cooler to the touch?

what kind of extension did you use? i thought that intakes were tuned for the cars and already had the best gains they could get with what they had to work with.

also....you can wrap the intake in the exhaut heat shield wrap if you are that concerned with it sucking in hot air. (worked great for me)

[SI-dan]

Yeah, it's in the DYI section. I attached a pic of the ext. I'm not worried about my AEM being tuned for my car. I wanted a cooler spot in the engine bay and I'm more than happy with it's location. I'll change the coupler from blue to red at some point.

[cappykd]

Nice!

[SI-dan]

I did notice the power curve is smoother when transitioning to the "higher" cam. I assume this is due to the thicker secondary pipe and bigger K&N Air filter I switched. I did swap filters on consecutive test runs to makre sure I wasn't making **** up in my head. But the mods have helped in the midrange.

[cappykd]

Originally Posted by SI-dan

I did notice the power curve is smoother when transitioning to the "higher" cam. I assume this is due to the thicker secondary pipe and bigger K&N Air filter I switched. I did swap filters on consecutive test runs to makre sure I wasn't making **** up in my head. But the mods have helped in the midrange.

I wish you had a way to monitor IAT. I'd like to see how much this mod dropped the IAT's. Normal SRI's run 22 or so degrees hotter that ambient outside air temps under best case conditions. In worst case it can be 60 degrees more...

[SI-dan]

That would be nice. But it's hard to keep the SRI cool and get cool air. You really only have the option I choose, which was to go back as far as possible and low. I'm going to fabricate a heatshield that will divert the cool air from below. I know people are going to say, "why not just get a CAI?". But, I'm not most people and would like to come up with my own ways to get performance out of my car.

[cappykd]

Originally Posted by SI-dan

That would be nice. But it's hard to keep the SRI cool and get cool air. You really only have the option I choose, which was to go back as far as possible and low. I'm going to fabricate a heatshield that will divert the cool air from below. I know people are going to say, "why not just get a CAI?". But, I'm not most people and would like to come up with my own ways to get performance out of my car.

I have the K&N with the heatshield it doesn't seem to help. I also had thermal wrapped the intake but that just made the temps rise slower. However it took much longer to decrease the temps when moving once they had risen.

[projectprelude]

yeah would you mind taking some pics...ive seen these little bypass kits before but didnt know what the think of it, but i seemed like it would help...i bought some head wrap for my intake...lol ive had it for like 4 months but have taken the time to wrap the damn thing

[SI-dan]

It's not a kit. You're just removing the coolant lines that go to your throttle body.