[Lord_Anarchy]

I'm sorry if it's been posted before but I didn't find it. I checked my owner's manual and nada...

My question: I see my intake line running from the throttle body down to my airbox. Now, as I looked at that very intake line, I see that something else is "plumbed" into it. It's also receiving air. What is it? All I know is that when I looked at the black box, it read "Denso" (Yes, I know that's a spark plug brand) so.. what is it????

Gen 3 Camry
-94
5SFE

THANKS!!!!

 

[chronoti]

are you talking about the pcv line????

 

[DarkMastyr]

Resonator box?

 

[CrawlingEye]

Resonator box?

You got it, he's talking about the upper resonator. It's not doing anything with the air but making it quieter.

 

[MadDawg]

hella quieter, after i installed my short ram intake, i have almost too much noise coming from under the hood, when i give it gas, it sounds cool, but almost not cool cause its a camry.:disappoin

 

[Lord_Anarchy]

Ohhhh.. that's what it does??? Hmmm.. interesting. So, what's inside of it?

Meanwhile, my car already whistles. When you lightly step on the throttle, it whistles. I'll see if I can put up an audio clip and see what you guys make of it.

Ohhhh.. Sorry to ASK for the millionth and ONE time but I wanna get a K&N Filter but am undecided because I hear about these MAF sensor gettin' f'ed up 'cuz of the oil. So, what's the dealio? What the SAFEST way to use the K&N filter?

 

[MadDawg]

just buy a k&n air filter for your stock air box, stick it in there, and wallah.... the only time you should be worried about the maf sensor going off is in the mercedes benz M class.... any kind of intake modifiation screws the MAF sensor up and screws with the car's performance.

 

[88 LE]

Ohhhh.. Sorry to ASK for the millionth and ONE time but I wanna get a K&N Filter but am undecided because I hear about these MAF sensor gettin' f'ed up 'cuz of the oil.

5S-FEs don't have a MAF (mass air flow) sensor. They use a MAP (manifold absolute pressure) sensor.

 

[Lord_Anarchy]

MAPs? I'd ask how it works but I think I'll search it.. Thanks for the heads up..

Meanwhile, that means I have nothin' to worry about with the oil of the filter then??

 

[l33tGreenCamry]

only the v6 has a mass airflow sensor.... is that true about a K&N high flow air filter fucking up the mass air flow sensor? cuz I've never heard that one before

 

[CrawlingEye]

only the v6 has a mass airflow sensor.... is that true about a K&N high flow air filter fucking up the mass air flow sensor? cuz I've never heard that one before

doubtful, but if you put a cone filter on (with an intake) you need an adapter.

 

[Lord_Anarchy]

Sounds

http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/lord_anarchy/CamSounds/CamWhine.wav

This is the sound I'm talkin' about....



http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/lord_anarchy/CamSounds/CamAccel2.wav

This is just fun...



Mind you that I recorded both on my Ericcson T226 and then recorded those sounds through my Windows Recorder and THEN uploaded it and brought you the links...

So.. It may not be the crystal clear sound expected..

 

[Lord_Anarchy]

sorry for any sound probs

 

[mescalito]

so can you remove the upper resonator???

 

[CrawlingEye]

so can you remove the upper resonator???

You can remove both, I've done it. Just go to lowes and buy 2 rubber pipe caps.

 

[mescalito]

ive taken the bottom one out....

do the caps cover the open hole? because that is my concern. Won't they make it not sound as gnarly?

 

[CrawlingEye]

ive taken the bottom one out....

do the caps cover the open hole? because that is my concern. Won't they make it not sound as gnarly?

if you removed the upper resonator without plugging it, that's about the dumbest thing you could do, as there's no filter to filter out the dirt and debris from going straight into the intake.

 

[mescalito]

so bottom line, plug it with....?

 

[DarkMastyr]

Duct tape

I'm sure it'll work if you use enough.

 

[Lord_Anarchy]

Hold on.. plug up the upper resonator? How does it work? I'mma just do reasearch. But, there are no ill effects to bypassing it (upper resonator) when shooting for a CAI? All that's plugged into the CAI is the O2 sensor and vaccum line, right?

How about this. Can we use the plastic line and just move the box and use a short ram to finish the length of it to do a CAI? In other words, just extend the plastic line with a short ram?

P.S. How about that AEM intake for the Scion TC? Could that work? I guess modding it would be the trick (if you can mod it to fit, it can work..) Yeah yeah..