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HKS Super Air Filter - 2016-2026 Honda Civic 1.5T / 2023-2026 Acura Integra 1.5T
If you want your 1.5T to breathe a little better without tearing your factory airbox apart, this is the easy win. The HKS Super Air Filter is a drop-in panel filter that replaces your factory paper element right in the stock airbox, no intake swap, no tuning, no fabrication. It flows more air than the restrictive factory filter, so your engine breathes easier and you get a touch sharper throttle response, but here's the part that actually matters, it does that without giving up filtration. A lot of high-flow filters trade away dust protection to get the airflow. HKS engineered this one to do both. It uses a dry non-woven fabric with a layered density design that pulls more air through while still catching over 95% of the dust in HKS's own testing. So you get the better breathing and your engine still gets clean air. Pull your old filter, drop this in, and you're done.
Why A High-Flow Filter Helps Your 1.5T Breathe
Your engine makes power by moving air, and the factory paper filter is built to be cheap and adequate, not to flow. It adds restriction your turbo has to work against, especially as it loads up with dust over time. The HKS Super Air Filter cuts that restriction down. Its low-resistance design lets more air through to the turbo with less effort, so the engine breathes easier and responds quicker when you get on the throttle. You're not going to dyno huge numbers off a drop-in filter alone, that's not what this is, but you'll feel a crisper response and you free up airflow for the rest of your bolt-ons to work with. It's one of the simplest things you can do to wake the intake side up.
Better Flow Without Sacrificing Filtration
Here's where HKS actually earns it, because letting more air through is easy if you don't care about dust, and that's how a lot of cheap filters cook engines over time. HKS built this with a dry non-woven fabric and a density gradient structure, which means the filter gets denser layer by layer as the air passes through. The first layers grab the big stuff, the denser inner layers catch the fine particles, so every size of dust gets pulled out along the way. The payoff is real, lower intake resistance than the previous design AND higher dust collection, over 95% in HKS's in-house testing. Your turbo gets more air and your engine still gets clean air. You're not trading one for the other.
Low Resistance That Lasts
A filter that flows great brand-new but clogs up fast isn't doing you any favors. HKS designed this one to hold its low intake resistance over the long haul, not just for the first few thousand miles. The fiber design keeps airflow up even after the filter's been in service a while, so you're getting consistent breathing for the life of the filter instead of watching it choke down as it ages. It's a dry filter too, so there's no oiling, no re-oiling, none of the mess or the risk of over-oiling that comes with oiled filters.
Drops Right In, Reuses Your Stock Packing
This couldn't be much simpler to install. It's a direct stock replacement, so it sits right in your factory airbox where the old filter came out, and it reuses your stock rubber packing, so there's nothing extra to buy and nothing to modify. Open the airbox, pull the old element, set this in, close it up. That's the whole job. No tools beyond what it takes to open the box, no tuning, no adapting anything.
Fits These Cars
- 2016-2021 Honda Civic 1.5T (Sport, Si)
- 2022-2026 Honda Civic 1.5T (Sport, Si)
- 2023-2026 Acura Integra 1.5T (Base, A-Spec)
What You Get
- HKS Super Air Filter (drop-in panel filter)
- Fits 2016-2021 and 2022-2026 Honda Civic 1.5T (Sport/Si)
- Fits 2023-2026 Acura Integra 1.5T (Base/A-Spec)
- Dry non-woven fabric filter - no oiling required
- Density gradient structure for effective dust collection
- Low intake resistance with 95%+ dust collection (HKS testing)
- Maintains low resistance over long-term use
- Direct fit in the factory airbox, reuses stock rubber packing
- No modifications or tuning required
Note: HKS Super Air Filter drop-in panel filter for 2016-2026 Honda Civic 1.5T (Sport/Si) and 2023-2026 Acura Integra 1.5T (Base/A-Spec). Stock-replacement filter that fits the factory airbox and reuses the stock rubber packing - no intake swap, tuning, or modifications required. Dry non-woven fabric construction with a density gradient structure (filter density increases layer by layer) for lower intake resistance and higher dust collection than the previous design (95%+ dust collected in HKS in-house testing). Maintains low intake resistance over long-term use. Improves airflow and throttle response over the restrictive factory paper filter. Dry filter - no oiling required. Not CARB approved; acknowledgment of CARB regulations required prior to purchase/installation. One air filter per order.