Air filter

[goodlooking4runner]

What have people been doing to get
There air filter out of there wheel well?

 

[TRDCal]

What's it doing in there in the first place??

 

[Casper421]

The 4runners factory intake draws colder air from the wheel well, making it a true CAI.

 

[Gerdo]

The stock intake draws from inside the fender to get fresher air than if it was open to the engine compartment. The intake is somewhat protected there. When fording water, the wave will curl down about where the intake is so that the front of the wave isn't sucked in. That air is also, somewhat, cooler since it is outside the rig.

It really isn't a bad thing.

 

[rebelbowtie]

Tho guy has been posting this in multiple sections of the forum. I asked him if he was talking about a snorkel but he never replied.

 

[truckmike26]

The 4runners factory intake draws colder air from the wheel well, making it a true CAI.

Yeah! I agree. I've posted about this before a few times but a K&N or similar drop-in high-flow air filter is the best bang-for-buck and performance-for-effort -- literally a one-minute mod and keeping the factory set-up intact makes for zero guesswork.