Cold Air Intake Tundra

[eddiememphis]

I put one on my FJ and it made a noticeable and demonstrable increase in acceleration.

It is a dry filter so maintenance is easy.

It is not the "cold air" that makes a difference, it is a much less obstructed path for the airflow.



Stock airbox. Inside it are baffles to quiet the intake noise but they also slow the air as it finds it's way through the labyrinth.




K&N- a single tube and much straighter shot to the throttle body.

Headers work well also. Engines are air pumps. More air in, more air out= more power.

This the third personal vehicle I have done it on.

Oiled filters suck- don't use them, unless you clean them frequently like on a dirtbike. They get clogged and can collapse when the airflow is restricted.

This filter has given me almost 50k trouble free miles and I still enjoy it when I am getting on the freeway.

[ray1970]

I put one on my FJ and it made a noticeable and demonstrable increase in acceleration.

If you had ?noticeable and demonstrable? performance gains from the air filter setup I?m going to call BS unless you have time slips from Bandimere proving it.

[LongArmoftheLaw]

Thank you all for your input, I do appreciate it.

[eddiememphis]

If you had ?noticeable and demonstrable? performance gains from the air filter setup I?m going to call BS unless you have time slips from Bandimere proving it.

That's fine since you were not sitting there as we did 30-60 and 40-60 mph roll-on tests in third and fourth gear. I wanted to see if it made more power or just noise. About a second difference 30-60 in both and a tiny bit over 2 seconds 40-60 in third gear.

I did not do it at the drag strip because I wasn't aware that 5 years later a stranger would be calling me a liar.

Once again, it is not just the filter that makes the difference. It is removal of the obstructive and labyrinthine stock intake system.

[ray1970]

Once again, it is not just the filter that makes the difference. It is removal of the obstructive and labyrinthine stock intake system.

You mean the baffles that the stupid Toyota engineers designed to increase your engines performance and efficiency by decreasing turbulence in the air intake?

I?ll apologize for calling BS on your earlier claim of a noticeable performance increase and I am definitely not familiar with your education or your history in the automotive industry or any experience you may have in any sort of racing environment.

There?s just so much aftermarket garbage being hyped these days and people are buying it up and throwing it on their hoopties and lying to themselves that it made a difference beyond decreasing the amount of money in their checking account.

[eddiememphis]

You mean the baffles that the stupid Toyota engineers designed to increase your engines performance and efficiency by decreasing turbulence in the air intake?

I mean the baffles that the very bright Toyota engineer designed to maintain maximum performance while being constrained within ever more restrictive parameters set forth by legislative bodies governing noise emissions.

...I am definitely not familiar with... any experience you may have in any sort of racing environment.

I live my life a quarter mile at a time.

[LongArmoftheLaw]

Eddiememphis, have you also installed new headers in addition to the K&N?

[eddiememphis]

Eddiememphis, have you also installed new headers in addition to the K&N?

Not on the FJ.

On other vehicles, sure. It depends on how restrictive the stock manifolds are but it often can make an amazing increase in power. Of course then you need a larger downstream exhaust system...

This was much easier on non-emissions vehicles. Intake, exhaust and a cam can turn Mom's '68 Malibu into a rip snortin' Chevelle!

[LongArmoftheLaw]

Not on the FJ.

On other vehicles, sure. It depends on how restrictive the stock manifolds are but it often can make an amazing increase in power. Of course then you need a larger downstream exhaust system...

This was much easier on non-emissions vehicles. Intake, exhaust and a cam can turn Mom's '68 Malibu into a rip snortin' Chevelle!

Ah yes the exhaust system would be next on the “to do” list if I moved forward.

The days when a car was actually a car and not a computer with wheels…