Comptech Short-Ram Intake

I found the Comptech intake and filter used on the Honda-Tech.Com Classifieds, only used for a few hundred miles before the owner decided to sell his Type R and get an S2000 (one of the few cars worth trading an R for). Thanks to Cyber R for being a wonderful person to deal with, and for shipping the intake safe and secure. It arrived in like-new shape, a small bolt vanished somewhere along the line, but 19 cents later I had everything I needed for this very quick and easy install (25 minutes, with time to take pictures included).

Comptech uses a foam filter, and the bracket on the filter mounts to the engine assembly (near the transmission), rather than to the inner fender like AEM and DC Sports units (Matt actually changed his bracket long ago to mount at the same point as the Comtpech). This means that when the engine moves, the filter moves with it, rather than requring a large rubber mount and some other tricks to keep everything from tearing appart. Quality and fit are top notch. The filter is foam (EXTREEMLY BLUE FOAM!), I won't mind hiding the blue filter inside the Comptech Icebox setup when I put that on, for now it certainly catches the eye. I did my baseline Dyno Run a few days ago, so I'll get the car back on and see if I got any gains with the Comptech setup. It sure sounds fantastic, especially on the VTEC cam...hard to describe, but there more of a deep "sonic-boom" sound when the VTEC engages at about 6 grand...glorious! Here's a quick step-by-basic-step

Here's the goodies, mostly pre-assembled. (I took the filter off the intake tube for the install, and attached the bracket as well.)

First, we have the stock intake setup. It's certainly not blue!

A few bolts and we can see the paper-element filter, which is cheap to manufacture but more restrictive than foam and cotton filters, which both require oiling (oil traps the smaller particles, the medium (foam or cotton) gets the bigger stuff.

Yank out the filter (literally) and then undo the three bolts that hold in the AirBox assembly, and you have a big open space. You can see the stock rubber intake tube, and also the top of the resonator assembly, which I will take out when I have more than 20 minutes.

Here's where the bracket will mount, I've taken the little bolt out, you put the bracket under the ground wire...

...which looks like this when you're done!

And you put stuff in the obvious places, and this is what you get! Now it's very BLUE!!!

UPDATE

Sooner than expected, my Comptech Icebox arrived from Comptech in California...check out the install and impressions HERE.
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