So are you calling out Rob to "pay to play"?

I don't think anybody is pretending to be something they are not.

I think we can all agree that Rob's channel and honesty has singlehandedly done more for the Rotary community than most, and he isn't redirecting us to sell a product or service in the form of a vendor. He is entertaining and informing to an unprecedented level when it comes to car content specifically rotories. We need to support this activity and support others that are going to make great rotary content, not try to push them away.

How are the other two individuals you mention different aside from the level of content and success?

There seems to be a Grey area when it comes to what people consider vendor advertising on here and I personally dont think sharing social media as vendor advertising unless its a shop page or something of the sort. People like me are active on this forum while working, so by definition I'm making money posting comments to this forum at times. Should I feel like I need to "pay to play" as well?

 

My stance on Rob would be the same

I have beaten this capitalist dead horse enough, but like the altruistic side of RX-7Club enough to move on in the minority

 

I see where you are coming from but you are wayyyyyyyyyyy wrong. So here is a fact in a form of evidence. Here is the exact amount I made for the video.

 

All my videos are made to help. Very few are made for entertainment. Example, I made a transmission fluid change DIY which was a huge pain to make. No glory or money there, man. Mine is the first video ever. Why? Because it is hard to make videos like this for the community. And when it comes to money, trust me, YouTube is not my source. I would not be able to have an Acura NSX, GT-R, Supra, and a FD for a dollar a video. It is to help.

 

I can't imagine that driving around with the blow off valve blowing off every 15 seconds would be appealing to anyone for very long.

Maybe add a suggestion for those that would like the blow off valve silenced.

It is surprising how affective that silencer (that was chucked aside early) works, and anyone who is puzzled by random noise from the airbox might want to see if that tube is missing.

Old air boxes can be brittle, so people should be warned the big nipples or the loops holding the tops and bottoms together can easily break.

As suggested above, once you start messing with the engine set-up other than the way god intended it to be, the stock ecu is going to be problematic.

It can become a slippery slope to chasing random malfunctions all over the engine bay, breaking fragile components along the way.

 

It’s not unpopular, it’s just wrong…imo.
A quick history check for the OP….
Stock, the engine scavenged air from the IC duct, which obviously isn't
ideal, but it WAS ambient air. We quickly learned that removing the box uncovered a sizable “gap” that allowed ambient airflow from the nose of the car. Many owners, especially those dealing with emissions inspections, could open the bottom of that stock box, toss in a K & N panel filter and then plug the hole in the top of the stock duct and instantly see quicker turbo response and if they’d monitored it, maybe lower IAT’s. All that and it was virtually invisible to an inspector.
Even though I didn’t have emissions testing I did this in the early days. Money was short with a kid in college. In addition to quicker response I also saw a little spike…hence the warning to the OP. As explained in the other thread where you drunk-posted, I now rock a PFS IC, duct and airbox. The latter having been modified similar to the old (cheap bastard) stock box mod described above. And I would absolutely see spike if I didn’t have a BC. I have never bothered to measure temps at the bottom of my PFS box to compare to ambient in front of the car, but pretty certain they’d be essentially the same.
To the OP’s choice, adding a shield and a couple K & N’s will accomplish the same thing. Just because it’s not race car modded doesn’t mean it’s not an effective and worthwhile modification. A CAI.
Yeah, improvements could probably be made if an owner was willing to do some irreversible hacking (“sacrifices”) ala ‘race car’. But any small return isn’t worth it to most of us.

 

I find it odd and maybe a little funny that this thread kept going. And bravo to montego for caring enough to spend his time to search and reference a post of mine from 15 years ago. Actually feel bad for him at this point. Little does he know that while I may not have known much about FDs in 2008, I was a forum member years before that before the crash for the multiple other rotaries I've had. I called out a dumb video that gave poor and misleading advice so the OP could make some cash off viewers. There are worse videos on YouTube and there are better ones. I'm sure more bad ones will be made. I don't really care much either way. This is a car forum, not sure why people like montego get all worked up, but I'll bow out of this thread and focus on my own and others that actually add value.

 

Drunk me wasn't saying it was a bad mod. It's probably better than most of the intake mods out there. I just think that "cold air intake" has a particular definition, and that this is more like a "less hot air intake."