Easy to install, so all the kids buy them. Get a little intake noise, bright shiny part under the hood, might gain a hp or two at wide open throttle.
If you are dumping money into the car, start with things that will actually help. Tires, suspension, and brakes. You will actually feel the difference.
Aftermarket intakes are relics of the 1960s and 1970s. In that time all but specialty cars were carbureted and drew air through a little pancake filter assembly that sat in the hot air on top of the carburetor under the hood. Aftermarket intakes provided less restriction and cooler, denser intake air. Modest power and fuel economy gains could be had for a modest price.
In the 1980s car manufacturers had to get serious about fuel efficiency, and at the same time they go serious about intakes, exhausts, and cooling systems. With the advent of electronic fuel injection to make fuel/sir mixtures more controllable stock intakes quickly became better than all but the most expensive aftermarket intakes. Restriction no longer had an effect on fuel economy, and the thermostatic stock intakes provided better fuel economy than the cheap aftermarkets.
Your Celica is the next stage in that. Toyota intakes since the late 1990s have become highly engineered to allow even better fuel/air control, and Toyota was a pioneer in wideband A/F sensors. Your 2001 still has a narrowband sensor but even it is likely to produce check engine lights from turbulence around the MAF sensor if you try an aftermarket intake... unless you are willing to start looking in the $1000 range and up.
Make sure to replace it. After the MAF, leaks will cause a serious issue. Prior to the MAF, it can simply allow minutely more particulates in, as well as potentially hurt the airflow into the MAF. All that to say that if the cracks are after the MAF, you MUST fix the cracks.
If you have cracks between the filter and intake manifold, obviously you are sucking dirt into the engine and shortening the engine life. You should fix the cracks.
Best Bet...seal the cracks with rtv or other silicone sealers and put a K&N air filter in your stock housing. .
Its more of a marketing ploy.. Nothing beat the good old paper filter.
My car that I plan to get one for is a 2001 Toyota Celica GT,
I read a few answers that said it is pointless as less hot air is actually pulled out from the intake compared to the OEM one, so what is the point other then the look I heard nothing really happens you don't gain and it doesn't keep the air cool enough.
I was told to get one from my friend because my air intake is kind of cracked, not in a bad way it still works and everything just for the look of it just looks cracked.
