What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

Where’s the actual filter on this? I have the same ram from AFE but goes through the Stage 2 AFE CAI box.

 

I did a deep clean on the throttle body and intake snout of the TRD supercharger. Also replaced the PVC valve (a pain with the supercharger in the way) and rubber hose. Truck is idling so much smoother. I highly recommend cleaning both sides of the throttle body if you all haven't lately

 

The OEM / stock air filter is just left of the VVT-1 / V6 emblem. If you look closely you can see where it separates. The filter goes in there.
I hope you are not using the oiled filter AFE provides! If so get it out of there as it will destroy the Mass Air Flow sensor.

 

they probably draw less power too, i gotta do that soon, thx

 

I was not planning on comparing. I assume something like a scan gauge, or ELM scanner with the Torque app would be able to pull the PIDs from the ECU and let you know. The goal here was to move the intake from the cowl since that space needed to be cleared for the dual battery tray.

Retains the stock airbox, the stock filter is in there.

Preaching to the choir here. I run Denso stock filters. I am not a believer in nearly any CAI, Snorkle, or other modified intake for "performance" gains. Stock intakes were computer modeled to properly feed the engine. Toyota engineering is motivated to provide a sufficient intake for their engines. Nearly every modification will either not help, or hinder some function in some way. It's not the 1960s where fluid dynamics where a mystery.

I am in this situation because I run 35s and the stock intake location in the fender is not viable since I cut 3" out of my fenders. I had a cowl intake because it was easy and functional and did not pull air from the hot engine bay. Since I needed to change that I went with this as the next best option. I'm sure there are efficiency losses compared to stock, but my goal was to get air from somewhere cooler then the engine bay. I hope this works. At very least I will have less engine noise in the cab from the intake pulling air from the cowl.

 

Sorry was blind drunk last night I see that now.

On the MAF side, why is that the case? I am ignorant.

 

The oil from the filter ends up getting ingested by the engine. It coats everything past the filter. The MAF sensor is just past the filter and ends up getting coated with dirty grimy air that the filter does not catch. Once the sensors are covered in crap they can't properly sense air flow and intake temps.

Sometimes you can clean them and be fine, but other times it just makes them fail.

Oil coated filters are not awesome. In the 60s and 70s with super restrictive intakes they might have made sense. No sensors and simple intake runners an engines that hardly lasted 100k miles limited their impacts. Modern engines have great intakes from the factory and the sensors do not like oily air.

If you doubt me, disassemble the intake from a vehicle that runs an oiled filter. The tubes past the intake will be coated with oily sandy grime.

 

I did my 2011 dirty! After being garaged for the most part of the summer I fired it up today and filled it with wall tile.

 

No doubt or anything of the sort—just trying to understand. I have the un-oiled AFE one on.

 

New Pop and Lock and found a scrap of indoor/outdoor that somehow worked as a cushion over some nasty Rhino liner.

 

I attempted to mitigate as much wire from being exposed underneath just based on the terrain i am expected to be traversing mostly. My rig will probably see more vibrations and variables that can have those wires moving around more than is comfortable for me.

I added some clamps everywhere but still wasnt too fond of my very temporary setup before this current revision