K&N Intake Idea

This might be a stupid question but here goes...
When i bought my truck it had a K&N Intake on it, would it be possible or logical to build a box around the filter and connect it to where a true cold air intake gets air from? Like a home made version of the trd cai box.

 

seems logical to me, give it a try

 

and also add a tube behind the grille.

Like this:
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/83406-how-make-cai-into-ram-air-tcai-40-a.html

 

Any other opinions?

 

Subbed for later viewing. Thought about it since I read about the one empire offroad made, 10 dollar diy cai. Too much going on with school, soon to change so ill be spending my time trying to figure something like this out. Keep us posted and maybe hook up a scangauge to read before "mod" and after mod iat to see if its helping you any...

Side note id try to stay away from an aluminum tubing, its a huge heat sink. Maybe lookinto plastic or composite tubing or header wrap the aluminum to keep air temps down providing for cooler intake temps

 

bump.

 

Any other opinions?

 

heres another option... keep the stock box and cut out a hole on the side thats near the fender well where the stock "resonator" or whatever it is is or was. get yourself a weapon r air filter with their extension and run the tubing down and possibly where the stock inserts are for the fog lights, place the collector there and remove the insert

http://www.weapon-r.com/index.php?act=view_product&id=1824

 

man i hate my KNN with a passion!! if you wanted to try to mod it ill do it with you i have been wanting to try to do somethin like that

 

I'm not sure if i will even have time for a while.

 

bump

 

No discussion to any of my input or is it just got a good enough idea and we are gonna just scrap thise ideas??

 

It had the K&N intake when i bought it so d don't have any of the stock intake. If it was stock when i bought it i would just do the deckplate mod.

 

Post number 9: get a weapong r filter with their ram air kit (link posted) run it through the fenderwell area out of the engine bay to draw cold air

 

Yeah i kinda planned on doing something like that with some kind of material.

And sorry if it seemed like i was ignoring your idea

 

no thats totally cool man i was just curious if you noticed since you kept saying bump and i threw some things in there. hopefully me few comments help with some sort of idea. i will hopefully be working on something as well

 

Yeah i'm just gonna try to find all my options or see if my idea is just waste of time. Thanks a lot for your input. I guess we'll see where it goes.

 

pardon the language iv had a beer or 2...FUCK that man!!! i cant see tinkering with this for my truck ever as a waste of time lol i would really enjoy it! what else you have to do over the summer travis?! have fun with this, be creative, and fucking make something sick and i might buy it off you!!

 

Yeah, I was planning on building a box for my K&N CAI out of some sheet metal and seal it. But then I sold it and put my stock intake back on.
Maybe you could find a stock intake somewhere in a junkyard or on Craigslist...

 

id chose another material other than sheet metal. maybe some sort of plastic

michael...you might be able to (if you still have it) use the stock air box in its stock location and do some measuring and with a hole saw drill the intake tube diameter hole in the box and run the intake into there. open up the other side to the fender well and make some sort of ram air into the stock box