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Originally Posted by chicaboo
As I've posted before: the stock intake setup with a panel filter, and removing the entire grill gives you more power than you will ever get from a CAI. The entire mouth of the grill channels air into the stock air intake very well indeed. You can't measure this on a dyno, but the real world effects over a CAI are as noticeable as going from completely stock to CAI again. It looks sorta tough in a ghetto way too, but for the sake of drags, it's probably the single easiest way to get good ram air without chopping up your car...
Gav.
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Yep, been there, done that. Didn't want the ghetto look, so I ended up just chopping out the area below the snorkel inlet.
My exhaust does not have a heat shield, which contributed to high intake temps(up to60 degrees!). Now have injen wrapped in 19mm thick Armaflex. Overkill, yes, but that's all I could get. Pipe is now cool, but I haven't yet checked the intake temp.
I'll post the temp difference soon, since it could be relevant to the thread, ie cheap, simple and easily reversible modifications.