Throttle Body Gasket Screen?

[CrankyOldMan]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

I believe those honeycombs are there to straighten out the air or something like that so that the MAF sensor has an accurate reading. Not 100% sure on that tho. But I think that's also the same reason why K&N had some kind of flap in their intake pipe.

Seems like there's a lot of confusion on the web about it:

https://www.justanswer.com/toyota/4m...-throttle.html

https://www.spyderchat.com/threads/s...purpose.71002/

It's there for a reason, even if it's not publicly visible. =)