1996 Taco, 3.4L

I bought my truck from a guy who put a K&N on it. He no longer has the stock airbox. Is the stock airbox even needed if i'm fabbing up my own snorkel?

 

No,

but you've got to figure a way to get a filter in the intake line somewhere.

 

I was thinking putting the K&N on top and fabbing up a rain shield. I have a friend who has said something about an inline filter that sits in the tube, the air makes the filter spin and throws the dirt into a collector, i'll have to ask him more about it.

EDIT: there is an air line that hooks into the filter, would I just drill into the pipe for that? (I'm thinking yes. dumb question, just double checking though)

 

The Plus side to having the air box though is you have somewhere for anything that made it down the snorkel to go before it goes through the filter. if you just build a guard around the filter youll have to worry about it clogging if you go through a decent amount of mud.

 

Can you get a box from a junkyard?

 

Most reliable thing to do that will keep most of the added power form the intake is a stock air box with the k&n replacement filter and a snorkel that goes to the box. Kinda a ram air sort of deal. Gave my truck a little more power from stock