Question from a begginer

[Collier]

So bought my first civic a couple days ago and have been mostly cleaning it up ect.. My first question is the car came without an air filter and when i checked i couldn't find the tube that would normally run into the filter.. Am i not seeing it or do i need to buy it somewhere? Also I want to just skip straight to a cold air intake, would this be possible? Also laugh at the bunjied in battery. Sorry about the quality of the 2nd pic, I can take more if needed.

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[XpL0d3r]

To ClubCivic

Yeah, you have NO air intake at all. I'd get one on there ASAP. If the previous owner had been driving with no air filter, you may very well have crap in your TB / manifold. I'd recommend cleaning at least the TB before putting an intake on.

Since there's not one there, you can go ahead and drop a cold air right in if you choose. I'm guessing you have a dangling IAT sensor somewhere too, so you'll need to plug that in too.


And don't forget the filter

 

[Wreckless Hype]

Welcome.

Generally you want to post some information in the topic regarding what your question is, not just that you have one.

So you entire intake box and tube is missing. Anything you buy, even off of eBay, should come with a flexible fitting with a clamp that will sit on the TB there (which yours is wide open, no good) and then will route into your engine bay. You can look all over hell and find more than you care to flip through. Just make sure you get valve cover hose hooked back up (open hose fitting sticking off the back of the valve cover, up top, closest to the battery - it connects to the intake) and anything else that was taken off for it.

Fix your battery also, that's awful.

 

[collkid]

I signed up just to comment here...

You bought a car without an Air Filter at all?!

I don't know if you realize, if anything got into the intake and past the throttle body, the engine would blow. Get a air filter, before you even start it.

Spend a couple days looking it over, I would be nervous about something else important missing.

 

[RonJ]

The battery set up is nothing short of frightening. Possible electrical nightmare.

 

[young_]

You're also missing the tube that runs from the valve cover to the intake. A new intake should come with that too. It goes onto that little pipe sticking out of the back of the valve cover.

You've got some work to do bud.

 

[Wreckless Hype]

I might have covered that already

OP hasn't been back in over a week. Hopefully his battery didn't fly forward into his radiator during a sudden stop, destroying sensor connections and the radiator... Thought I'm sure it would have messed up the distributor first.

 

[oz4707]

You're also missing the tube that runs from the valve cover to the intake. A new intake should come with that too. It goes onto that little pipe sticking out of the back of the valve cover.

You've got some work to do bud.

Im relatively new to the civic scene but how bad is it if you do not have that hose from the valve cover to the intake. I heard it just returns oil back to the block. What is the purpose of it??

 

[XpL0d3r]

Im relatively new to the civic scene but how bad is it if you do not have that hose from the valve cover to the intake. I heard it just returns oil back to the block. What is the purpose of it??

Plenty of info found here (too much for me to quote): http://www.civicforums.com/forums/171-general-honda-civic-forum-archive/211580-intake-breather-hose.html

 

[oz4707]

Thanks good info

 

[joe7987]

I know I'm a little late on this, but I can't believe the original owner didn't have any sort of intake on the car and just left it wide open like that. That picture just blew my mind.