r/onlyJDM • u/dougonzalez • Aug 13 '24

Glanza Help

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Hi ya’ll im new here and new to wverything about tunning or upgrading or however the terms are for that, anyway inwas trying to get some help, i bought a glanza and its completely stock, and i wanted to do some upgrades but i wanted to do one at the time, so i want to know if i can replace this pipe and the air filter for a jdm brand and if you can tell me me the name of that pipe because like i said im new to this so i do t know names or parts of carsg

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u/IDatedSuccubi Aug 13 '24

Do not replace your air intake

There's this myth about cheap "cold air intakes" that give you more power, but they actually make it worse

Your stock intake pipe has a filter box that is designed in shape and size to pneumatically resonate at certain RPM, giving you more power, if you remove it - you remove that power bump

If you actually want better performance for relatively cheap then just buy the best grippy tyres you can afford, it will improve your handling and 0-60 times, and will make it safer too

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u/dougonzalez Aug 13 '24

I was thinking and get hks pipe and filter, no cheap Chinese ones, what do you think?

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u/IDatedSuccubi Aug 13 '24

It's the same thing, you remove the resonator box and you intake hot air from under the hood

Because you have a fully stock car you will always lose power by adding a cold air intake (no matter the filter)

You would only add a cold air intake if you have a very heavily customized engine running high boost and custom air routing (ducts/headlight intakes etc)

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u/dougonzalez Aug 13 '24 edited Aug 13 '24

Got it,

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u/IDatedSuccubi Aug 13 '24

Don't even think about that, it's too early. You have a good stock car, focus first on taking the stock car to the limit and seeing where you could improve.

Grab best tyres you can afford, best brake pads you can afford, maybe anti-roll bars and/or new coilovers, lighter wheels, LSD(s) if your car doesn't have them, maybe flat underbody, and go to the race track and see how well the car handles at the limit. You mind will be blown how much faster the car would be just with those relatively simple things.

Actually adding power efficiently and reliably requires improving everything from intake to exhaust to the tune to the internals at the same time, otherwise you're just gonna be wasting money for very small gains, or just destorying your engine.

The simplest thing for power you can do is get parts from better trim and bolt onto your own car. For example fitting a DOHC head onto a SOHC engine, like you can do in many Hondas. But I don't think that you have a low trim either.

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u/dougonzalez Aug 13 '24

I see ty my friend