Gen. 1 Intake silencer remove

by **FFguy808** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:38 pm

anyone took out their intake silencer on their gen.1 Solara stock intake?
any difference in power?

It's the plastic thing between the two rubber coupling.........

by **BLACK V6** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:53 pm

^^Sounds like something id want to do. I love the sound but I don't really want to spend the dough on a SRI or CAI.

by **FFguy808** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:58 pm

I did it on my old corolla before and it made a difference on the sound..not to sure on the power though since it was only a 1.6 liter engine...

by **BLACK V6** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:26 pm

Hopefully someone will have some info on it for us.

by **kenlrw39** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:48 pm

im running mines with it sound depeper but can't really feel a difference in power.

by **ToyoSolV6** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:37 am

no power just sound. You may "think" you gained power in your head but your really running the same lol

by **Ilovemylara** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:18 am

There will definalty be more noise, and Its very plausible that you would gain like 1 or 2 hp although I make no promises, because fluid dynamics also applies to air, and The intake silencer has 2 chambers in it, and the shape of the box causes the sound waves to "bounce" around and cancel themselves out. This causes turbulence, which reduces the ability of the "fluid" to flow. My sugestion would be to take a 5-6 inch long piece of 2 and 3/4 inch black pvc (or just paint regular pvc black) and insert it where the silencer was, just reuse the stock couplers, or replace theme with nicer ones. whatever you want.

While you are it, you could use a hole saw and cut a 3 inch hole in the bottom of the filter box, to flow more air into it. You could also paint the whole thing whatever color your engine bay theme is, Personally I would paint it RED.This mod is CHEAP or even free, if you already have some pvc and other materials. Im considering doing away with my cheapo-ebay intake, since the piping is .25 inch too big and its causing me to run rich. For now, I may go this route, until i find a good tunable CP-e setup.

by **unbalancedwood** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:57 am

lift driver front wheel up and remove
unscrew plastic screws on plastic mud guards twards front bumper
there will be a large white (gallon of milk) jug style piece there
yank it down and out
trash it

ta da!!!

INCREASE HP BY .5HP!!!! lol

by **Midias** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:41 am

^ and by removing the intake resonator you could be up to a .6hp gain

by **SleeperSolara** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:44 am

You can remove the intake snorkel behind the fuse box, and you'll get more sound.

by **RandySolara** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:14 pm

Midias wrote:^ and by removing the intake resonator you could be up to a .6hp gain

You sure ? so me some pic bro ?

unbalancedwood wrote:lift driver front wheel up and remove
unscrew plastic screws on plastic mud guards twards front bumper
there will be a large white (gallon of milk) jug style piece there
yank it down and out
trash it

ta da!!!

INCREASE HP BY .5HP!!!! lol

Sure man ? so me pic too bro.

ToyoSolV6 wrote:no power just sound. You may "think" you gained power in your head but your really running the same lol

This is what i thought, but dam i like that girl in ur avatar pic, man she like mexican, dam the boobs, shake shake shake.

*I think take out the stock airbox and leave it like that will gain 50-85HP and big sound ahaahah

by **unbalancedwood** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:16 pm

'JUST DO IT' but dont expect anything, but for your first mod you can get some training in using a screw driver and a lug wrench

but heres whats down there

by **BLACK V6** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:44 pm

Sorry to be a noob and make people repeat things but is there something I can simply remove from the airbox to get more sound? I don't care about power I just want a quick cheap mod to get some sound. Pictures wouldbe nice too.

by **unbalancedwood** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:53 pm

Yes, read above, you can remove #8 & 13 with the basic tools...........

by **Midias** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:22 pm

BLACK V6 wrote:Sorry to be a noob and make people repeat things but is there something I can simply remove from the airbox to get more sound? I don't care about power I just want a quick cheap mod to get some sound. Pictures wouldbe nice too.

You can remove the air box if you dont care about your engine

Gen. 1 Intake silencer remove

Gen. 1 Intake silencer remove

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