after you have jacked the car up just enough off the concrete, take the lug nuts the rest of the way off and remove tire.

now that the tire is removed you will see 6 of 8 screw tabs you need to remove, the one circled in yellow is kinda a ***** so you may need to use the needle nose pliers to coax it the rest of the way out.

once you have those removed move to the corner of the car (just under/behind passenger fog lamp there are 2 final clips you will need to remove here....they look like this:

and are located here...

once you have all 8 said clips removed pull back fender liner starting where you just took off those last 2 clips and work your way up peeling back the liner, there is also a clip you will need to slide off of the fender thats attached to the liner itself.

at this point, it should look this.... exposing the air box silencer

 

Now, pop open the hood and prop it up. you will see 2 bolts holding down your fresh air inlet

remove these 2 bolts and give a slight twist as its on there rather well. but be careful not to break it.

once removed it will look like this

now that thats removed and your still on the top side you will notice a nut to the right of the inlet hole, remove it with a 10mm socket wrench or regular wrench (whichever you prefer) as its 1 of 2 nuts holding the air silencer in place.

next move underneath the car under the passenger fog lamp, upon previously removing the fender liner looking straight up behind the fog lamp (as if on your back) you will see this nut. (10mm)

remove nut and carefully coax air silencer out of inner fender area, should now look like this.

re-attach nuts removed from silencer back onto silencer so as not to loose them (you may need this again someday if you decide to sell it, or decide you dislike the noise it makes)

this is what it looks like now up inside your fender:

at this point you may re install your fresh air inlet or you may choose to keep it out, i choose to keep mine in, though not directly connected to the air box anymore im sure SOME cooler air is directed its way, and i think it looks cleaner.

reinstall the fender liner and all clips, if you forgot wich ones go where you can refrence the pic from earlier, (top left and right red circled are the smallest) (yellow there is only one of and theres no scredriver marks on top just flat/smooth) (bottom 2 red ones are like the top 2 but only larger) (and theres is one of phillips head style that goes to the far right edge of fender)

now put your tire back on, put on lug nuts, make them snug, lower car by turning crank counter clockwise...now re snug lug nuts (tight)

put your jack, crank, and tire iron back where you got them.
unchuck your wheel and take her for a spin....recomend after short drive re snugging lug nuts after they have had time to settle.

*note: installed K&N drop in at this time as well*

 

Nice write up, how do you like it?

 

the sound was different for sure but nothing like the sound of a actual aftermarket intake, but it helped make me more familiar with my vehicle as well:thumbup: also you could slightly hear the bypass valve venting..

 

Very well done write up! :thumbup: Shows how to use the jack for those that do not know as well.

If it were me I would have installed the GP Moto elbow at that time (I did install one).

 

Nice job, recently removed the silencer out of my 05 STI. The difference in sound is not really noticible at lower rpms, however, when you get past 4k you can clearly hear the intake. One thing I did different is I never actually removed the wheel. Instead, I took those screw taps out of the front right piece of plastic infront of the wheel and was able to twist it until the silencer came out of the fender.

 

+1 I took mine out easily without taking the wheel off.

Nice write-up though.:thumbup: This is better than the one I found before I did mine.

 

Sweet write up - wish they were all like that!

 

Awesome write up!

Just another thing I decided to do. I also reinstalled my ram air scoop, but I didn't like how it just sorta hung there by not actually entering the fender well. So what I did was I hacked off the portion of the silencer that attached to the ram air scoop to lengthen the ram air scoop so it would actually enter the fender well again.

For those who decide not to reinstall the ram air scoop you can get a fender plug here at SubaruGenuineParts.com

 

:thumbup: Nice!

 

great write up... this should be a sticky :thumbup:

 

just a quick question.....
wouldnt you lose performance a little since now all the incoming air through the little sccop in the front isnt being directed into the airbix, its just directed in the fender? like theres no more forced air going in there

 

unfortunetly i dont have any kind of device to flow test this theory, but with as many bends and unsmooth surfaces that were in the silencer it was never a true ram-air...just a method to help fresher air enter.

 

No jack stand?

 

always a critic....lol jk no i actually didnt have one, but i highly recomend using one, or at least a make shift one....huge blocks of wood will due if your too broke lol

 

great writeup, very concise, exactly what i needed! thanks!

 

So, is this silencer thing just a noise muffling thing?

Does the air flow just go into the "ram air", around the fender hole through the silencer, wrapping back into the entrance of the intake cone?

 

yes and yes:thumbup:

 

Just did this and WOW was it simple. If this is any indication of the difficulty working on these cars I'm in for a nice ride. Every time I did ANYTHING on the Honda it was a nightmare.

 

this was the first thing i did to my 06. i installed a panel filter then did this, except its not necessary to take the tire off the car. I did however find that placing the jack under the car to just lift it up a little bit or in some cases just park it over a curb so you have a lil more clearence to the clips. i did buy the GP moto Silencer delete but realized that the sound without it was more like that BOV sound that most turbo owners like.

 

I didn't have to take my wheel off either. Hardest part was either trying to remember which clips went where or convincing the silencer that it wanted to let go of its previous home.

 

ive got the silencer/snorkus delete on my car, would buying the moto gp elbow help or no? its just still an odd feeling that nothing is there you know?

 

it will provide actual cooler air to your air box thats for sure, being that it's hooking back up to the fresh air inlet and no longer making it useless.

 

this post inspired me and i finally went out and did this.
LOVE the sound, the whirr was extremely loud in the high gears and i, too, could faintly hear the bypass.
i even got those cherished "nice car!" looks from some of the neighbor's kids

 

Can you hear anyhting from outside the car? On the way to work this morning I could hear it spooling but only to like 4k rpms; after that it got quiet again. I haven't been lead foot driving though. I never drive fast but I love the sound of it spooling even in low gears.

 

for me it is loudest when climbing a hill in 4th or 5th (full boost)

 

Very good write up :thumbup:
Thank you for being so precise.

 

noce.

 

I couldnt get those plastic screws undone to save my life, all i did was strip 2 of them, so i just undid the clips on the bottom and folded the plastic fender back a bit so i could get to the underside nut of the silencer, and i coaxed the silencer out through the whole right there i made by folding back the plastic. Is there a trick to getting those screws out? I may reinstall the silencer if I get the spt intake that I want

 

when all else fails use a flathead screwdriver

 

hmmm interested in doing this maybe tomorrow, oh wait a minute its gonna be f-cking 7 degress, WTF. Wish me luck