TRD cold air intake worth it?

That’s what it’s all about. Enjoy your ride. Better than spending $500 on cigarettes or some other unhealthy habit

 

I installed it and this is more than just a trivial sound difference. It completely changed the attitude of the car, I love it!

I didn’t end up doing the wire loom split, I used an extension wire to reach the MAF, clean and easy.

The install was straight forward in concept, but some details were a little bit of a pain. The most annoying parts were:

1. Aligning all the couplers such that they all are pushed in all the way and tightening them up while ensuring there are no leaks. Not hard just annoying.
2. The air filter box only has two clips, the rear two are sort of hooks that you have to align with the lower box. When you do that, can only be done in one angle, like a door hinge that opens upwards, it then makes aligning all the couplers etc, just a bit tedious. This is probably one of the many areas that was causing some people to get a CEL. Probably a vacuum leak somewhere. I didn’t have that issue.
3. When you put back the engine cover, you gotta make sure that the position of the screws of the collars that tighten up the couplers don’t get in the way of the engine cover, around the throttle body area.

Overall I’m very happy with the install. Easy and the car sounds more like a truck and less restricted. It’s loud, quite significantly for me. I think there is a bit more power.

 

Butt dyno isn’t calibrated.