short ram air

I got a 94 honda accord ex coupe 5spd. I took the original intake plenum off and there is a plenum attached under neath it that goes to a black box that sits right next to the distributor cap. the black box has a butterfly valve on it the short ram intake will only fit if i take that black box out. There are two or three vacuum lines on the box that has a vacuum actuated seloid the one vacuum line traces to the right side of the engine bay, into a nother solenoid. I am just wondering what will happen if i eliminate that box.  please help if you know what it is and if i can get rid of the pos

Either I am retarded or we use a terminology difference but what do you mean by plenum?

He's talking about the OEM filter box with the resonator below I believe.

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I got a 94 honda accord ex coupe 5spd. I took the original intake plenum off and there is a plenum attached under neath it that goes to a black box that sits right next to the distributor cap. the black box has a butterfly valve on it the short ram intake will only fit if i take that black box out. There are two or three vacuum lines on the box that has a vacuum actuated seloid the one vacuum line traces to the right side of the engine bay, into a nother solenoid. I am just wondering what will happen if i eliminate that box.  please help if you know what it is and if i can get rid of the pos

sell me your oem rims and show us a much larger pic of your avatar pronto

yes i am talking about the plenum going to the throttle body and is that a resanator if so do i need it


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i dont think you need the resonator if you put a short ram in, i still have mines on, because i have to remove the bumper to take it off, but if you can, just take it out
 
oh and nice pic lol

The resonator is gone and you don't have to remove the bumper. It is a black box that sits next to the distributor not in the wheel well. I will take a pic of it and post it up tomorrow if i get a chance

Yes, I took my resonator out without removing the bumper. The trick is to pull back the splash shield under it and pull it down. About the black box, is it that little black box attached to the bottom of the stock intake tube/plenum?

maybe i should actually trying to take it out then huh? haha, it just looked real complicated so i left it in there, but maybe its my car? who else has a 6th gen, and can remove the resonator without taking off the bumper? i also heard you can saw it out too..

I pulled the bumper to get mine out .... not that difficult.  I have the 6, so it is a different installation.

I don't think a saw would be beneficial to remove a large plastic box.

haha, me niether, so i guess i'm going to have to take off the bumper, good time to finally install my foglights then!

people have saw-zalled them ..... a hand saw would be useless.

I don't understand how you would get a sawzall intol the hole in the engine compartment let alone reach the bolts or anything without removing the splash shield and/or bumper. Maybe the 6th gens are different...

you can get under it by pulling back the lower shield that is connected to the wheel well ..... with the shield out of the way, there is a lot of room, but the bumper isn't too bad to just take off and put on .... it's something like 8 clips and 2 screws

That's the shield I was talking about. It's easy enough to remove the platic plugs and the shield is flexible enough to pull it back and remove the 3 bolts and jimmy the resonator out of there.

it took like 15 min to get the bumper off my ride, and made the job 100000x easier.. i don't think it was possible any other way on my ride or it'd still be sitting in there..

i agree with the sawz-all; don'tr know how that'd work on mine, but i have a 7th gen

"Yes, I took my resonator out without removing the bumper. The trick is to pull back the splash shield under it and pull it down. About the black box, is it that little black box attached to the bottom of the stock intake tube/plenum?"  Yes it is that little black box finch

Still waiting for a pic ..... sounds like the resonator piece that kinda looks like a turd on the V6.

You should be fine to remove the box, I don't think there are any hose or sensors connected to it. I believe it has something to do with the airflow through the tube.

here is a picture of the box i am talking about 


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That's the resonator!!!  The SRI will have 2 ports for the hoses to plug into.



thanks go to BuntinBoy9 for this pic.

You sure that's the resonator? I have a 95 without that box or hoses and my resonator was in front of the wheel...

Looks like it to me!

I'm still trying to tell exactly what I am looking at here.  I can see the plug wires going to the distributor.... Can you step back a bit and take a picture not so close up?  I think that looks too small to be the resonator.  My resonator does not have any hoses like that coming out of it.  I only had ONE hose to hook up to my SRI in my 6th gen.