A busy couple of days, got the front bumper off the car and took care of a few things
Switched out the foglight bulbs, turn signal bulbs, disconnected the DRL's, and took out the intake silencer. Afterwards i did notice quite a bit more sound, especially when giving it a boot when it 3rd at ~40mph, a real strong growl from ~3k to 4.5k.
But the main reason for removal was to 'de-civic' the grille, got that done and ended up making it into a 'semi-sport' grille, by dremmeling out some additional air holes to feed into the snorkle. Got the idea when removing the grill i saw the bumper cover has some holes pre-cut in front of the snorkle
Continued in next post