intake choice, check it out....

http://128.83.80.200/taco/deckplate.html

http://www.gadgetonline.com/airinduction.htm

peace out

 

Been reading on this! Looks cool!

 

I took a 4" holesaw to the bottom of the airbox and baseplate,added a 4"female adapter and ran 4" pipe to a scoop under the bumper.It works great with a UPD lid.

 

here's more indepth

http://www.wattora.com/Mods/deckplate/

 

lot's of real world testing on this one, flat out, it works!

 

What kind of airbox is that??

I did this to an old 'regular silverado style' airbox, and I wasn't very happy with it. I did a whole lot of different configs with the bottom end of the airbox, and nothing provided the throttle responce and lowend pull of the stock setup. I think the stock openings smooth out the airflow and reduce/eliminate turbulence.

It sounds like a lot of others on here have had better luck than me.

 

its off a toyota tacoma 3.4L V6.

 

Without this being tested on an actual GM engine, it means nothing. Although it's a great read for a Toyota owner.

Each engine is different and will react to mods in a different manner. The intake design may or maynot compliment hacking your stock box.

YMMV, and all standard disclaimers apply...

 

not sure if I follow the GM/Toyota thing, but I believe one of the premises of cold air, ram air, fresh air, more air, type systems is to increase either the amount of air available to an engine, the temperature of the air available to an engine, or pressurized air available, or any combination there of. whether it be a GM/Toyota air pump? what's the diff? Just trying to get some info out to those that might want to try a low buck mod. please enlighten me.

 

First of all when working with forced induction you can throw out all your ideas that ram air or cold air is a good thing. The compressor will negate that cold air effect or ram air effect and only let in what it's capable of. That and the compressor will heat up the air as it gets compressed.

When talking about ram air or cold air on a N/A or normally aspirated car, there are so many variables in today's EFI system that without a good background in engine tuning, and experience with EFI systems, you will never know what your getting other then the manufacturer claims. MAP, MAF, OBD11, and more all have their pluses and minuses.

So when I say YMMV, I mean it. Without actually trying it on another engine with different characteristics, you'll never know. never take the Internet's word for it. We're all powerful and all knowing on the internet. Don't take his or my word for anything.

BTW, my car is faster then yours.