Intake Part 1

Changing things up in the wife's S2000, she decided to try to source and use an older Spoon setup. With that being said it was time to ditch the AEM intake and start trying to find a Spoon Snorkel. I have always been more of a fan of box style intakes rather than tube and with the test pipe, the exhaust has a nice tone, but the AEM is still over powering and I always liked how the Mugen intake sounded. I started my research on the snorkel and started to notice some pictures with the resonator removed, and I have 2 extra box intakes laying around.

Still has resonator

Removed and I know this isn't a real Spoon car, but I can't find the pictures I used earlier.

The plan here is to get more of the box intake sound, add a good filter and maximize use of the duct when we receive it. I also planned on gutting the inside of the air box and sealing it as much as possible to make a chamber similar to the J's Racing. I chose the intake that looked worse of the two to experiment with this. It had already been slightly "gutted".

This is the intake to the gigantic resonator chamber, I will later fill this in part 2.

It took longer than I thought to cut the resonator off, I took my time and tried to not fuck it up. Afterwards, I started trying to smooth it out to look "cleaner".

This was before I started to sand the plastic.

This is the underside of the box, I want to take one of the elbows off and try it both ways. What I found was the before it was "gutted" the elbow filled the plastic wall, so really the air box was just the area around the filter.

This was after the elbow was removed, keep in mind a Spoon snorkel will be added in with this ultimately. 

I cut some more of the baffle out of the inside, this is about the best I could do.

I then started step one in cleaning up the cuts.

I'm going to work on part two of this whenever I get some more time to put in it.