Lower Air Duct

[toayoztan]

What is this? I don't remember this vent/duct under the car.

It's been a while since I had the stock intake system...

Bryan

[klue]

puts some air on the trans fromwhat i have seen

[Corey Darling]

Wahhh? Did those come on the 92-93's?

[RedCelicaTRD]

Got to be a catalog error.

[wakkjobb]

Ha ha... nope! That is still on the last 165 I picked up; vents air onto the transmixer. Never saw anything like it before and damned if I'm gong to sell mine! Same goes for the alternator ducting. I still can't believe how dead bone-stock this car is.

However, there is an 88 165 listed at the local junk yard...

[athousandleaves]

... just when you thought you'd seen it all

Definitely not on any car I've ever pulled parts from, worked on or owned.

[athousandleaves]

Offtopic I know but has anyone ever seen the fender mounted mirrors that show up in the parts catalog for the 185?

[underscore]

I've never seen or heard of either of these parts before, they can't have been on every car unless every single mechanic throws them away.

[klue]

those are for sure on the st165, I think the 1990 front clip i bought had one too

[RedCelicaTRD]

I know they came on 165s, but I have never seen one on a 185, or 182 for that matter. Maybe they came on the Rally models?

[Corey Darling]

Were they possibly removed because the 185 went to an oil cooler rather than just a looped hard line?

[wakkjobb]

Definite possibility...



Did the 165s have an optional external trans cooler to tap into the hard lines? I always thought there should be one there; why have a short loop fol cooling... get an actual cooler in there.

[jaydog82]

I have the trans cooler ducting on my st165, it was 95% or when I bought it.

[jaydog82]

You can remove the u shaped cooler and run hoses to a real cooler.

[wakkjobb]

Found a pic of mine; a few pics down:

viewtopic.php?f=44&t=42305&start=15

Not installed, but you get the idea.