Thoughts on Building intake for 2.7L 4runner
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Thoughts on Building intake for 2.7L 4runner
I have been doing a lot of research on intakes for the 2.7L 4runners and have come to some conclusions.
Cold Air Intakes - I have seen people that love them and people that hate them and the cost on these bad boys is enough to steer me away.
Deck Plate Mod - Due to the air box differences between the 3.4 and 2.7 this mod can not be done on a 2.7 or at least that is what I have found from my research.
ISR - Building a custom intake would cover this.
I had to build an intake for my 4runner after all the original Toyota intake pieces broke on me. I was in a pinch at the time so I build a Spectra Intake from Orielly's. It has worked well this far but it doesn't fit quite right and it is cheap plastic and I am worried it will break. I have decided I don't want a cold air intake for three reasons; performance gains are hit and miss, cost, and I would like to keep my stock air filter box because it already has a K&N filter in it.
Potential Solution -
In my quest to find an intake that fit all the things I was looking for I came up with nothing that was already pre made. I stumbled across intakehoses.com and they make custom intake pipes and pieces to make your intake. I am thinking about ordering some parts from them and building an intake.
Here is what I think I would need:
1 - 45degree Elbow
2 - Couplers (1 for mass air, 1 for throttle body)
1 - Aluminum Pipe (Cut into two pieces)
So now for my questions.
They sell silicon and rubber elbows and couplers. Which one do you think would be better ( I don't have turbo or anything like that so temps wont be super high on air intake)?
How does everybody feel about this idea?
Does it seem like it would be a good intake setup?
Keep in mind I'm not after huge horsepower gains with this setup.
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
Cold Air Intakes - I have seen people that love them and people that hate them and the cost on these bad boys is enough to steer me away.
Deck Plate Mod - Due to the air box differences between the 3.4 and 2.7 this mod can not be done on a 2.7 or at least that is what I have found from my research.
ISR - Building a custom intake would cover this.
I had to build an intake for my 4runner after all the original Toyota intake pieces broke on me. I was in a pinch at the time so I build a Spectra Intake from Orielly's. It has worked well this far but it doesn't fit quite right and it is cheap plastic and I am worried it will break. I have decided I don't want a cold air intake for three reasons; performance gains are hit and miss, cost, and I would like to keep my stock air filter box because it already has a K&N filter in it.
Potential Solution -
In my quest to find an intake that fit all the things I was looking for I came up with nothing that was already pre made. I stumbled across intakehoses.com and they make custom intake pipes and pieces to make your intake. I am thinking about ordering some parts from them and building an intake.
Here is what I think I would need:
1 - 45degree Elbow
2 - Couplers (1 for mass air, 1 for throttle body)
1 - Aluminum Pipe (Cut into two pieces)
So now for my questions.
They sell silicon and rubber elbows and couplers. Which one do you think would be better ( I don't have turbo or anything like that so temps wont be super high on air intake)?
How does everybody feel about this idea?
Does it seem like it would be a good intake setup?
Keep in mind I'm not after huge horsepower gains with this setup.
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
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