For AEM Intake owners
 

Just so what happened to me doesn’t happen to you, make sure your rubber isolator is installed properly, and the tube cannot make contact with the unibody, otherwise you get a nice hole like this:

my tube also started to strach the paint but I didn't get a hole in it ...

holy ****!!!! what the hell happened

A big sticker will fix that right up...

Ouch..

:eek:

Mine started to do the same thing. I just went to Home Depot, and bought a piece of rubber the same diameter as the pipe, and put that around the area that was rubbing.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...9/fa80a5ce.jpg

yeah im gonna fix it over the winter...right now im cutting my pipe into a short ram..

hey jeff, the pipe was rubbing on the edge of the hole where it went down into the fender..rubbed every time ya hit the gas cause the engine shifts..

crap, well will it help if i make the hole bigger b4 i install mine? or line the hole with a rubber gasket?

I would do what DumbasSi did.

If you make the hole bigger, it will probably start to rust faster.

Mine doesn't have a hole yet, but a nice gouge.

http://syphonhouse.sytes.net:8000/intake.jpg


crappy quality, but my digicam is not here now, so webcam it is! that little blackish mark is a small gouge, maybe 3-4mm deep. It happens..

cover it in rubber if you can, and i am considering grinding down the sharp egde around the hole, so it wont cut the rubber, and of course painting it when im done

geez that sucks... i'm glad i don't have an AEM

holy crap thats brutal, glad i got a short ram hehe

What you're all hearing are the stories of AEMs that were rubbing. I've had mine in for over 2 years and it's still perfect. No need to widen the fender hole. Like 92civ said, just make sure it's properly installed and doesn't come loose.

for the love of G

your licky you found the problem now and not later on

cant you guys use the existing gasket betweern the upper airbox and lower resonator to prevent this?

no such thing on most of our cars Aaron - we generally have to cut a massive hole there

yeah for newer civics, but for the 5th geners the is a hole where the stock airbox assembly goes through..

Aaron, as for the gasket, never thought of it, but i believe it may have been samwiched between the airbox and resonator..

and bond..i sure am "licky"

i am just gonna get another rubber sleeve to cover the hole..so i need 2 of them now..one for the hole and one for the cut i made (its a short ram for now)..or maybe a bypass..who knows..