K&N Air Intake

So I bought a K&N Air intake for my Tacoma and on the instruction, it say’s will not fit a body lift. I have a 1inch body on it. Is that true?

 

1st you wasted your money on that, it just looks different is all.
2nd yeah it probably won’t fit because I’m assuming the filter end of the intake mounts to the fender and now you raised it up an 1” and won’t line up the intake manifold with how it’s designed

 

IMO body lifts look like crap on these trucks and cause more headaches than the lift is worth. Its a lot more work but you could remove the body lift and the K&N Air filter will line up. Do you plan on taking your rig off-roading across any water crossings? If so be careful with the air intake sucking in water and causing the engine to hydrolock.

 

So the factory intake can't hydrolock, is that what you're saying? The intake is high enough off the ground, I would be more worry about getting stuck, hitting hidden obstacles or among other things. LOL

 

it just looks different is all.

Oh no, it is annoyingly noisy too

-Mike "I got rid of the one on my truck"

 

Nope just saying its much easier to suck up water when the intake isn't covered like the factory. LOL.

You would think so. look at the thread below. Not worth the little extra HP to me plus the annoying noise they make.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/hydrolocked-my-truck-yesterday.236117/

 

lol that urd one also sits right behind the grille. driving in rain would hydro lock that shit design.

 

I assume you're talking about the "cold air" intake system?

It will still work, you'll just need to screw around with how the heat shield and/or intake tube mounts so that everything lines up.

Of course it can. But because the K&N filter is now completely exposed to the engine bay, vs. a (semi) sealed box that gets air from inside the passenger side fender, when you dip your nose into a stream, the exposed air filter is pretty much the first thing that will hit the water, if deep enough, and is certainly more exposed to splashing water.

This is why I hate my K&N intake, and plan to eventually replace with with a sealed airbox, possibly a snorkel. If you off-road in anything wet, don't get this air intake system. Go for the deckplate mod or a snorkel.

Side note: a snorkel is actually more of a "cold air" intake than this K&N system will ever hope to be since it doesn't pull air from inside the HOT engine compartment.

 

I agree with the above, CAIs move the air intake so it's not as protected as the stock air intake. If you go offroading this can be an issue. Hell even in my old Scion tC when I installed a CAI it would stall out during heavy rainstorms because it would get water in it from splashing up into the engine bay. The stock air intake pulls air from inside the wheel well which is protected by the fender liners, so you don't get any water in it (unless you submerge it)

 

To be fair, that IS a 2nd gen...

 

IIRC the URD one comes with a cover that keeps water out but still lets enough air through, but I would still be skeptical of it if I did any offroading near water

 

I mean im pretty sure street only trucks are the demographic for that cai but still the placement of that even with the water shield is pretty sketchy.

 

yeah my experience with a CAI in my Scion back in the day would keep me from doing that again. Granted cars are much lower to the ground so water splashing from underneath is more of an issue, but still.

 

For every CAI hydrolock, there's 1 factory intake hydrolock as well.

 

Doesn't bode well for CAIs considering there are probably 500 stock intakes for every 1 CAI out there lol.

 

Yeah, mine came with it, and I've just never bothered to replace it. Never liked it. It just makes noise, and I doubt the increased power it technically provides is enough to notice. My buddy had a nearly identical truck (stock intake), and it's not like I blew his doors off in a drag, lol

I haven't quite encountered a deep enough water crossing to really matter, but I have been wanting to do the Mojave Trail, but this dumb intake DEFINITELY gives me pause for that water crossing at the end.

 

Last time I did the Mojave water crossing I had my stock intake and it sketched me out hardcore. Water level was above my headlights, I was the only one in the group without a snorkel and that crossing is the only way to get out unless you backtrack several miles. I ended up riding the right side of the crossing so my truck was off camber which kept the intake more elevated. Worked like a charm except I hit a rock or something under the water and nearly flopped my truck over, would have been very bad lol.

 

No one (except you) said that stock intakes prevent hydrolock.

 

I was waiting for that comment. LOL

 

Because everyone is probably riding in the same boat conspiracy theory of CAI hydrolocking