Has anybody ever cleaned out their intake???

[General Chang]

Mine keeps clogging up and I'm tired of paying 300 bux for someone to clean it out. Anybody ever tried to clean it out themselves?

[Honda530]

uhhh when you say intake are you talking the stock one? An after market one. Do you mean the filter?? I clean the filter out on occasion. It gets real dirty especially since its a CAI. and 300 bucks to clean it thats freakin crazy someones rippin you off.

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

You paid $300 for someone to clean your intake? A new, aftermarket AEM cold air intake can be had for less than $200.

Is your intake stock?

[General Chang]

yeah its stock....got alot of carbon buildup .....so much that the mech said he would have to drill it out.....something about the fuel rails....haven't looked into it alot.

[DjFrost]

Hmmm 300 bucks sounds a lot...............you better look into it ;)

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by General Chang
yeah its stock....got alot of carbon buildup .....so much that the mech said he would have to drill it out.....something about the fuel rails....haven't looked into it alot.

Are you talking about getting your EGR ports and fuel system cleaned? That's different from the intake.

[SofaKingSmooth]

Originally posted by General Chang
Mine keeps clogging up and I'm tired of paying 300 bux for someone to clean it out. Anybody ever tried to clean it out themselves?


just get a cold air or a ram air ir something if your paying 300 your nuts...... i would venture to tell you that you are taking it up the butt with out the KY

[ridinlowaccord]

yea an intake cleaning should be about 30-60 dollars
you must have misunderstood or you are being ripped off

you might wanna ask your mechanic a few more questions

[silver]

intake manifold maybe?

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by silver
intake manifold maybe?

Still, doesn't $300 seem kinda steep?

[TonitrusEN]

well lets see..

i had a timing belt, waterpump, cleaned my throttle body and intake manifold, and a valve adjustment at a HONDA dealer for 700.. so 300 for the cleaning is rediculous..

[blind34_1]

He's not talking about air intake. He means the intake manifold area.

[silver]

Originally posted by 94_AcCoRd_EX
Still, doesn't $300 seem kinda steep?

i can't even bs an answer for you, never done it before or had it done.

[ebpda9]

i paid for a tb cleaning, fuel mixture adjustament 120 and i feel like i got ripped off. and i never heard of cleaning the intake manifold

[ebpda9]

for that price i would say it is the major tuneup

[blind34_1]

You wouldn't beleive the crap that gets into the manifold. My friend just pulled a b18a1 from an integra. took the manifold off and there must have been a 1/2 inch of carbon and black shit all up in there. Basically you go at it with a pressure washer and let it dry real good. Thats assuming you removing the whole unit from the engine.

[General Chang]

yeah its my manifold....sorry for not including that......gets clogged up cause the car idles for about 5-6 hours a day 'cause i'm a gopher for a company here in town. I had it cleaned out in NOv. of 01 and now it needs it again, but I want to do it myself. Just wondering if anybody as done that with it on the car....i saw that some guy said he pressure washed the manifold OFF the car and said that worked.....that seems easier to me than bending over the engine and scrapping/drilling the carbon deposit crap off.....can the manifold be easily taken off??.....I guess i mean can it be done by an amatuer mechanic with good tools in an afternoon?