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This page contains Toyota 86 air filters, cold air intakes and short ram air intakes by industry leading manufacturers including AEM, K&N and Injen. The Toyota 86 comes with a stock air box designed to minimize intake noise which also restricts air flow to the engine. An aftermarket air intake is designed to free up air flow as well as keep the air cooler for racing or high performance use.
Toyota 86 Air Intake Systems
Above you can see a photo of a stock air box of a Toyota 86. This part is designed to bring cool air in from the front bumper, filter it and then send it into the internal combustion engine. The stock air box is quite restrictive when compared to an aftermarket design, the purpose being to keep the engine as quite as possible and safe from the elements such as hard rain or debris while still allowing air into the engine. Toyota 86 cold air and short ram intakes are the most common and basic performance modification because of ease of installation, improved performance and engine sound as well as improved fuel efficiency. A Toyota 86 air intake system provides the highest horsepower per dollar of any modification and is usually the first one done on a vehicle.
In the photo above, you can see a Toyota 86 engine bay with a cold air intake that has replaced the stock air box. The Toyota 86 air intakes will look differently than the one shown above, we have just used this photo for illustration purposes. There are two main types of after market intake systems, cold air intakes and short ram intakes. Both allow more air into the engine for better performance, the difference is a short ram air intake is housed within the engine bay and a cold air intake routes a pipe down into the bumper in order to get the coolest air possible.
Several manufacturers including K&N, Injen and AEM are looking for Toyota FT86 vehicles to prototype new products on. Please check out the links at the bottom of this page for more information.
