so i decided to clean my intake since i got a little spending money and i had it all apart anyway from cleaning my s/c oil inlet. this is the filter i have.

its the trd HI-flow drop in filter and as you can see its dirty. the reason its so dirty is because of my poorman cai. (ill show later). anyway i bought the k&n cleaning kit and went to work, first here is what the bottom of the box looks like.



anyways i took the filter in the house and sprayed it down and washed it out a couple times and this is what the tub looks like,(remember this is all in my intake)



anyway i though that it was very dirty and wanted to share but now on to the poorman intake, what it is, is a dryer vent, it goes from the intake inlet, to the vent on the front bumper. i just forced it a little into the intake box and ziptied it to the black mesh plastic piece, i took the mesh and drilled the biggest holes without breaking the mesh look, its kinda hidden away so u cant see it from the outside and ive notic a differece, here are some pics,





some may call it rice but really i dont think it is cuz first it serves a purpose, and second and not something and everyone sees, he is a pic without the mesh




well i hope yall enjoyed

 

thats a lot of dirt...

 

she was dirty

 

lol dont call that your poorman intake, call it the gangsta goodguy intake. its just your own version of ram air. Ram air is very common, i have it too exept mine isnt a dryer hose. Anyway im curious as to long how have u driven it before it was last cleaned, or since it was new? Im on 10k miles since i last cleaned mine, im wondering if my filter is that dirty.

 

i have the same setup but i was too lazy to drill holes in the vent cover so i just left it off. man with all that dirt and what not you could have clogged your tub! when i have some spare time im probably going to clean my stuff out also.

 

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That is a lot of dirt.

What is even nastier is the brown ring of crud around the rest of the tub. Is that from the filter or do you just not clean your tub?

 

AHHHHHH you should of cleaned your filter outside with the water hose it would save your tub and drain lots of headaches down the line...

 

LOL i agree

 

yeah i kinda realized that too but that ring is from the filter cleaner that you spray on that is suppose to lift the dirt. i didnt think it as that dirty and thats y i did it in there. but hey i know next time

 

Dang dude. Just because K&N says you can go 1million miles without cleaning your filter doesnt mean to do it. LOL That is alot of dirt. How many miles you drive without cleaning it? I went liek over 19k without cleanign my injen and it wasnt close to that dirty. I have my bumper vent out even. It looks kinda wierd but oh well my bumper is dented anyways so i dotn care. Hope to have APT fogs soon anyways.