$280 and thy cant even make it good quality.
I like my intake and it was only 100bucks and its smooth and no burrs anywhere like you said
I like my intake and it was only 100bucks and its smooth and no burrs anywhere like you said
The filter is sitting right at the hole in the fender...its no different then where the stock system pulled it in fromworthywads said:Though it looks really nice 05xrunner, aren't you now drawing air from the engine compartment and not from the cooler fenderwell like the stock CIA?
LOL yea I mean the engine bay is HUGE...the motor isnt all that close plus my scoop is open to let out some heatbonzaisushi said:its really not that big of a deal.... theres no turbo under the intake making insane amounts of heat..... the enginebay is cooled really well..... The air doesnt sit in the intake tube and marinate itself........
Except that the stock one was sealed from the engine compartment. Looks like your filter pulls from the sides, not the front so yours gets air easier from the engine compartment than from the stock hole. I don't think air wants to enter that hole, but a sealed box requires the air come through the hole, big difference.05XRunner said:The filter is sitting right at the hole in the fender...its no different then where the stock system pulled it in from
Well the front of the filter is open..It pulles air in from the front and sides.worthywads said:Except that the stock one was sealed from the engine compartment. Looks like your filter pulls from the sides, not the front so yours gets air easier from the engine compartment than from the stock hole. I don't think air wants to enter that hole, but a sealed box requires the air come through the hole, big difference.
The scanguage I have shows the intake air temperature, which with the stock sealed CIA, matches the outside air temperature, Toyota did a good job.
I'd be curious to see with the scanguage if you are getting hotter air or not, my guess, HOT, straight off your radiator.
But your engine compartment gets positive pressure from the front through your radiator, so hot air wants to comes off your radiator and up across your engine compartment, then down off the backof your firewall. If anything the hot air wants to go out the stock hole, preventing cooler air from coming in.05XRunner said:Well the front of the filter is open..It pulles air in from the front and sides.
I will keep my straight intake vs that huge monstrosity of a box that was on there from the factory. also it is not made of metal so it does not get hot to heat up the air more.
Plus I didnt know my radiator was over on my fender or even ontop of the motor. The radiator is no where near the intake the closest part it would be to the intake is still about a foot away from it
I'm not saying that hot air blowing on the tube is the big problem. The problem is you have a 193+F engine surrounded by hotter air and no cold air for that intake to find. And just like the stock side opening, even if you open up the hood scoop, outside air doesn't want to come in. Ram air hoods on the old musclecars didn't really ram (unless they were much taller than the Tacoma hood), they required a sealed passage to the engine which allowed the engine to suck cold air from outside just like our stock CIA, no positive pressure.RMerritts said:The air wont be blowing straight off the radiator onto the the tube anyway since there is a fan shroud, the air is more likely to go under the truck after it blows on the front of the motor than over the engine to the firewall and down under.