DIY: Ghetto dodgy custom airbox for SRI (Accord Euro). Temperature on page 5!

This has to be the best DIY job I've ever seen for cold air take mad props to ya

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Originally Posted by as001

This has to be the best DIY job I've ever seen for cold air take mad props to ya

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Agree pretty well done :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by aaronng

Oops, missed your post. I bought it off ebay, the ELM323. Software, I'm using OBDGauge for pocketPC. Going to have to source a laptop with a serial port to test it out with. My pocketpc has a non-standard serial port, so it could be causing the dropouts. Laptops with serial ports are rare post-Pentium2.

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Next time you are in Melb let me know - I have a couple of laptops with serial ports - an old P3 that has 1 directly and a P4 that has one via a port replicator. I would be interested to see this working.

can anyone in sydney do this on my eh9?

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Originally Posted by kazam

can anyone in sydney do this on my eh9?

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DIY it! It's fun. :)

:( im not good at these things

First time for everything. :) Just don't cut your fingers off with the tin snips.

a lil bit off topic.....

whats wrong with using regular rivets with aluminum?

why are the aluminium rivets necessary?

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Originally Posted by Bludger

a lil bit off topic.....

whats wrong with using regular rivets with aluminum?

why are the aluminium rivets necessary?

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Because aluminium is more reactive than the steel used in normal rivets. So if you used steel rivets, the steel would cause the aluminium to undergo accelerated corrosion. Similarly, if you used tin coated rivets (tin is less reactive than steel) on a steel airbox, the steel would rust.

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Originally Posted by aaronng

Because aluminium is more reactive than the steel used in normal rivets. So if you used steel rivets, the steel would cause the aluminium to undergo accelerated corrosion. Similarly, if you used tin coated rivets (tin is less reactive than steel) on a steel airbox, the steel would rust.

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thanks:thumbsup:

Just out of curiousity, has anyone passed their pinkslip with the custom airbox?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by lo0se3r

Just out of curiousity, has anyone passed their pinkslip with the custom airbox?

Thanks

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I passed blueslip! That's more stringent than pinkslip.

Nice job aaronng. I just did this for my car, only took a couple hours ;)

wow good job! Ghettoness at it's best.

hey aarong, have you got the temperature comparison yet?

you are 1 crafty soab
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Good write up mate.
What adaptor did you use?