Take out the horn assy. There are three screws holding it in. The horn assy is two pieces. These are snapped together. To get them apart, it is easiest if you warm them up and use something like a small flat screwdriver to pop them apart. Be careful not to break the plastic tabs. Once you remove this assembly you will see what we mean. Once these two pieces are taken apart, the first screen can come out. Once the screen is out, put the two pieces back together and reinstall the horn assembly back in the airbox.

 

you have to pry the front if the horn off..there are 3 "locks"....just try not to break them......then it comes right off

 

OK, I'm no mechanic...but I've done plenty of simple things before on my other cars like change oil, air filter, replace starter, new brake pads & rotors(little tougher) etc., etc... Now I feel like an idiot because I can't even get the cover open on the intake box. The accordion hose behind it isn't giving much at all and I don't want to force it too much. According to the simple instructions in the manual I should be able to unplug wiring, pop clips and open the lid...I can get it open about an inch, probably not even enough to get the old filter out, let alone those two baffles. I must be missing something obvious here.

 

Basically, take off the engine cover first. You then "push" towards the car until the two gromlets infront comes off. After it's off, put your fingers where the two gromlets infront are. Lift as hard as you can and the bottom gromlets will dislodge itself. That's pretty much it.

 

Wow! That was an amazing response time, 2 minutes, LOL! I think I was able to get that loose. So do I need to disconnect the big hose and take the whole box out in order to get it open? Thanks for responding so quickly

 

You don't have to remove the rubber hose after you get it loose; the box can stay in the engine bay since it opens up pretty wide. I guarantee you that you'll have alot of room to work with. I tend to respond to the threads I make really quickly. Thanks for the compliment.

 

The only reason why I took out my box was because I wanted it to take pictures of it and show everyone on the forum. It's a pain to take pictures of the box when it was still inside my engine bay.

 

So do I need to get the front side of the box up out of the car? Once I get it loose the box still won't open more than about an inch, I'll go muscle it again and see if it'll budge...I must be doing something wrong, lol.

 

Hmmm...
Let me try to find a link explaining the easiest way to open the box.

 

I found it.
https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...7&postcount=23

Go there. I hope that helps.

 

Look at the second picture in the link, do you see the gromlets? Basically, the easiest way is to push the whole box towards the engine. This will get the two front gromlets loose. There are two more on the bottom, this one is really hard to pull out. Basically, just push up as hard as you can and it'll just literally "pop" right out.

 

OK, finally got it out, broke the plastic a little on the inlet side trying to get it around that stupid wire that should run under it, not over it...now I'm not sure how I'll get it back in there without breaking that plastic off. I'm 220 pounds, and I couldn't get that thing back far enough to clear that stupid little wire holder....grrr. Not even sure I want to risk trying to take out that first screen, lol.

I went ahead and put it back together, which is dumb because I'll just have to open it back up again to drop in the K&N but oh well....an air filter should never be that hard to get to.

 

pardon my ignorance but which one is the air box and wat is VFAD?
this sounds like a good idea, but i dont know alot about the car itself.

do i have to have a K&N like 3DZukini for something to work?

 

^^ you got ALLOTT of reading to do hehe, but I just went a head and did it, I never even took the airbox off my car, I just did it in about 3 minutes and i was done

 

So I removed the walls tonight but haven't had a chance to even turn the car on yet. Should I reset the ECU before I do or just see if it has a rough idle first?

 

Iy is actually really easy - There is a good explanation on how to do it in the DIY section ....

 

i dont think there is a need to reset the ECU at all. its not a big enough change

 

I could push the airbox back to get it out of the two holes at the front, but couldn't lift it out until I followed the guide.

The key is to pull up on the two holes on the back where the engine cover goes into. After pushing it back and pulling up on these, the only difficulty was getting it up and over that damn plastic bit holding the wire towards the front...

 

I had no problems when I pulled mine out. But it seems every car is different.

 

Have been running with no screens for over 6 months now without issue . Last week I took out the plastic dividers in the intake as well just to try it out .
Don't know if this is a coincidence or not but on the odd ocasion I'm finding the idle dies away alarmingly now . I'm going to put the dividers back in and see if that cures the issue .

 

Hi brettus, hows the weather up North..lol.. had same type of problems with the K&N V2 Pod filter, idle drops down abit. I would do a log with the scanalyser before and after, see if it logs any thing different

 

its not the runners in the intake. its the screens being missing. put the closest screen to the MAF back in. That should fix it

 

no it's not the screens - like I said I've been running without both screens for months with no issues . It was only after I took the dividers out that it strated playing up ........

 

It's probably a combination of both, since both are there to help straighten out the airflow over the wire.

 

i thought the original idea was to take out the dividers, not the screens? which is supposed to be removed in this "mod"?