Gen. 1 Intake silencer remove

by **SleeperSolara** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:54 pm

RandySolara wrote:
SleeperSolara wrote:The poor college student intake for a Solara. lol.

Students are always.....u know, its alrite as long as its work, heehehhe at least they figured out, look at myself, ive spent too much for nothing.

Yeah i know. lol.
I'm one of them.
It's just all about savin' up,a nd gettin' the good stuff in the end.

"GTX" - The thing in the red circle in your picture is the silencer.

by **GTX** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:27 pm

Thank you. Thats going away next. :-)

by **Ilovemylara** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:28 pm

GTX wrote:Thank you. Thats going away next.

Where's your MAF sensor?

by **aenties** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:32 pm

The MAF sensor is there, instead of placing it on the side stock, he position it at the bottom. Shouldn't matter.

by **GTX** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:36 pm

What aenties said. I had to do some cutting and trimming but everything is there and works fine. I attached the vacuum hose to that same tube with the MAF.

by **Ilovemylara** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:16 pm

Oh I see it now. Awesome man! Remove that resonator, and you'll get alot more sound.

by **ctsolara12** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:04 pm

Haha this thread gave me ideas so I tried something similar on my gen 2. I removed the snorkel and resonators and my 2.4L has a nice growl to it now. Downshifts sound really good too.

by **GTX** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:23 am

I still can't believe there were THREE silencers/resonators in this thing. The plastic jug, the airbox, and that black thing near the throttle body. Toyota REALLY didn't want anyone to hear the 1MZ, which is a shame because it sounds awesome. lol

by **Ilovemylara** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:13 am

Now, you should build a CAI extension. lol

by **GTX** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:22 am

I *might* do that later on. lol. Right now I'm trying to figure out what that hose that goes to the silencer I circled does and how I get it out. Then its off to Home Depot.

by **Ilovemylara** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:27 pm

That is the crankcase ventilation hose. it pulls gases out of the valve cover. You could relocate it to the tube you replace the resonater with.

by **99SLE-S** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:31 am

BLACK V6 wrote:^^ Haha. Well, for one, I'm a cheap a$$, and two, I like doing custom things like what I did in this thread. I know it was just a bunch of work for nothing but I got the sound I wanted, I enjoyed making it, and just for 13 bucks too. It just seems to fit me!

I'm glad to see you are taking things into your own hands and learning, thats great.
:OFFTOPIC:
did you buy the car the way it is with the wheels? do you know if the suspension has been touched? That's the exact look I am going for.

by **GTX** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:39 am

Quick question, does the pipe I get to replace the silencer HAVE to be 2.75"? I can't seem to find that size anywhere. What difference will it make if I go slightly higher or lower?

by **BLACK V6** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:59 am

^The closest thing I could find to the size of our intake pipe to match it was 2.5" Grey PVC Conduit. Just go to lowe's or home depot. It will NOT be in the pipe section. It's been on there for over a month now, I've taken 2 300 mile trips, and everything seems to be doing fine. I didn't feel a difference in anything it just sounds great. But you get definitely get the most sound from removing the intake snorkel.

99SLE-S wrote:
BLACK V6 wrote:^^ Haha. Well, for one, I'm a cheap a$$, and two, I like doing custom things like what I did in this thread. I know it was just a bunch of work for nothing but I got the sound I wanted, I enjoyed making it, and just for 13 bucks too. It just seems to fit me!

I'm glad to see you are taking things into your own hands and learning, thats great.
:OFFTOPIC:
did you buy the car the way it is with the wheels? do you know if the suspension has been touched? That's the exact look I am going for.

No I purchased the wheels after I bought the car. I put on Tein S. Tech springs because the car looked like a 4x4 after I put on the wheels. I also have 225/45 tires unlike most of the guys on here with 18s who have 225/40. If you get the 225/45 they fill up the gap better but I had to do some major fender rolling so they wouldn't rub.

by **dudutzu** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:07 pm

Hey guys,

saw this post couple days ago and having nothing better to do I did this:d

sorry for the bad picture quality, I had pretty much everything laying around so was pretty easy, didn't notice much difference in sound(maybe cuz I'm driving like a old lady, haha) but that doesn't mean that there is no difference, it was easy to do and I think it looks better:) and is so much more room in there, now I need to get rid of that big airbox

I know that the pipe is 2-3/4" outside diameter, don't know what size the fitting is but I can find out if needed, just let me know

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