Sport-Injected

K&N SRI

EBC Red Stuff brake pads and slotted rotors
DC Sports Header
f5 Fujita SRI
upgrade for the computer? Hondata reflash?
Exalto Pilot tires
Hondata Intke Manifold Gasket (?)

The next thing on my list is a Short Ram Intake. this replaces the factory airbox entirely (thus making the 45 I spent on the K&N drop in a waste, except I might be able to pawn it off to someone on honda-acura.net), and will gain me 10-11 whp over stock. the stock horsepower for this car is 197 (using the SAE 2006 rating- if this car had been rated in 2005, it would have initially had a hp rating of 210). Stock horsepower is pretty much a useless number- between the engine and the wheels cars lose power. in the case of my car, the whp is about 184. If I want to know for sure, I could always have it dynoed, but that is the dyno number from K&N and fujita f5 (when testing SRIs)
basically, my car loses about 6% power from the engine to the wheels. not bad at all. the SRI will bring my power from 184ish to195ish, which translates to 209 engine horsepower (more or less).

I'm mostly looking at either fujita f5, or K&N, for a SRI. the f5 is cheaper and adds half a horsepower more (according to the dynoes) but the K&N comes with a heat shield. I'll have to think about it.

this had no practical uses, and I'm afraid that it was before I had any particular interest in "documenting" any of this. you can see that my calipers are red- I don't have a before picture but take my word that they look better. we're talkin' 6 bucks for paint and 3 for some brake cleaner. 9 dollars total. it also took a couple days, so make sure you don't need your car immediately if you decide to do this.

here's the factory filter. ick. it's sitting on the K&N box- the K&N filter is already in the car. I'll get a shot of it later.

allright. this was the first, and by far the easiest "modification that I made. in the picture on the right you'll note an octagonal warning label that you can't read- that label is stuck to the factory airbox. (I'll take more pictures later.) I went down to my local autozone and purchased a drop-in K&N air filter for $45. Although I have not dynoed nor tested the car, reliable sources suggest that this will add 2 whp (that is, wheel horse power). a-mazing.
the factory airbox is held down by six clamps, two located on each side, two in the back. much more convenient than either the screws or wingnuts on the GMs I'm familiar with.



the airbox is up. you can see a couple of the clamps in this picture pretty easily. that's the K&N filter- all I did was set it on the bottom half of the airbox. it fits like a glove.













and there's the warning label, legible now. One thing I really like about K&N is that they offer a million mile warranty- they claim their filter will last longer than your car.

we're done with the blazer. this is the new object of idolation (left): a brand new 2006 Honda Civic Si. I'd like to thank QuikTrip for providing the money to buy the car, Honda for making such a beautiful piece of engineering, and ChevyAsylum.com, Superstreet magazine (and their Project Car magazine), and finally my good friend Randy for getting me motivated to do something- ANYTHING.