intake system instead of carb?

[89rolla]

i wanted to know if i could take off the top of my carb and rig up an intake with an elbow and a piece of pvc pipe with a cone filter...is this practical..would it hurt my engine?

this is what i wanted to do!
http://www.toyotaparts4u.com/Sonny_Atienza5.jpg

[Flashmn]

Yes you can do it like that. But thats not taking the carb off. You just take the filter casing off and put a 90deg elbow on it. If you took the carb off the car wouldnt obviously work

[89rolla]

yea...thats what i meant...srry about that!

[89rolla]

ok iam kinda lost now...i dont know how i can actually hook the piping up to the carb itself??? iam puzzled! my first thred has the link to the pic that iam going by....

[Flashmn]

You have to make / buy an adaptor.

[Elizle]

Where can you buy an adaptor or how can you make one?

[Flashmn]

Use a bit of creativity, thats what I did with my first intake.

[89rolla]

how big is the opening for the carb..the opening to the filter is 3" round so can i use a 3" round PVC pipe elbow and then hook up a straight one from that to the filter?

[TRDemon]

honestly guys that didn't work for me, i'd try that before using a 2" elbow on top of the carb and i ran the intake using some more pieces of pipe to the front of the car, right behind the front bumper. and i didn't get more pull then if i had on the filter pan.
Try running the intake to the front of the car as a ram air effect, with the filter pan on and you'll see and FEEL the difference. just try it and feel the difference at about 3000-4000rpm.

[VooDoo]

you can also try getting the adapter off a toyota 4K or 5K engine...


looks something like this...

[NDR008]

Flashmn, why did you do an airintake mod? I thought you believed that a stock airfilter setup, allowed all the required air to pass...

[Flashmn]

Flashmn, why did you do an airintake mod? I thought you believed that a stock airfilter setup, allowed all the required air to pass...

I figured, I'd rather wash the filter than change the paper filter every 3 months. Besides those cone filters have a larger area, so they get stuffed in a longer time period than the paper one. Additionally it was an experiment, plus I had nothing better to do so I tested it out and it sort of stayed there, because broke the stock box when I put in the cone intake.