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Originally Posted by PRM
Kits will be ready to ship next week, i'm thinking tuesday.
just waiting on some new filter elements, should be here by tomorrow.
kits are shipped out via u.p.s takes 5 to 6 days.
I'm having no luck finding a local A/T for fitment, Manxman is willing to
recieve his kit before i can comfirm that fitment is O.K. on an A/T.
so with that said, all A/T orders will have to wait untill I or Manxman
check for fitment. I'm working on it !!!
Gerry
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If I have to make an aluminum bracket to fasten the filter end to an available existing bolt, or threaded hole, I will let you know how I did it. My '09 Fit Service Manual will arrive on 1/6, and I will investigate the possibility/safety of cutting a large port in the fender liner for access to cold air at the filter of the PRM intake system..
I am sure that porting the fender liner is not necessary, but if it won't hurt anything, why not do it?
Not doing the port won't hurt performance, since your dyno results were achieved with a stock Fit. But I want all the cold air I can get.
Thanks for the good news, Gerry. Happy New Year!!!! I will bet that sales will be good for the new Fit models. Any after-market intake that corkscrews the filter back against the firewall is guaranteed to generate turbulence.
Look up "vortex whistle" on Wikipedia. Your elongated tube system will straighten air flow and reduce flow resistance from turbulence, just as you have designed them for all of your systems.
Unfortunately, the stock cold air delivery is at the firewall (short sighted design from Honda- the GD3 intake was better). So I will try to combine the GD3 and GE8 designs, with your system, to produce the best performance possible.
Thanks for being the first North American intake system manufacturer to address the needs of the '09 Fits.
EDIT: Forget trying to get cold air from the fender area. There is already a LARGE hole in the fender well in front of the battery. The hole leads to the inside of the plastic fender directly under the headlight. But NO cold air- it is a sealed chamber, sealed by the black plastic fender liner that surrounds the wheel. Boring a big hole in the liner would allow "cold" air to get to the engine bay, but it would also allow the wheel to throw water and mud into the engine bay as well. No point. Besides which, here in CA the air is only cold in the winter. Temps radiating up from the surface of a freeway in August are around 150 degrees- not cold at all.