Originally Posted by msheredy
To each his own Steve. You should know this. Remember when everyone was razzing you for going with the Renntech ECU upgrade when Speed Innovations was so much cheaper with the same HP increase? I personally don't mind either way to be honest. I like race cars with the plumbing going all throughout the car like the Pro Street class in the PSCA. Seeing the cold air intake reminds me of that look.
The OEM intake is not a cold air intake, it is a ram air intake. Every newer car has a port to some cold air source. For example trucks have their airboxes feeding from the fender wheel, that doesn't make it a cold air does it? My fiancee's Miata had the same thing. That wasn't a cold air either.
I personally think fitting the V8 airboxes looks like a hack job because you have to cut and fabricate which makes it look handmade.
The Needswings intake is a high quality looking
and performing piece. It is a one piece mandrel bent (no one else has this) pipe that fits the contour of the engine bay perfectly.
The air must be pretty thin where you live
I guess I should have said it different, Needswings intake is a nice looking peice of pipe. Is it considered a CAI? If it is, does just putting the air filter outside the engine bay make it a CAI? It's just that to use it you have to revel the ugly a$$ dull aluminum engine under the nicely designed air boxes. I really don't care if I have the fastest car, just one of the fastest is fine with me as long as it looks good too. I consider my car a show & go, not just a racing car.