Well, it will work much better soon when I update it with a liquid cooled air setup. Maybe you just didn't put the filters in the right place or something. I can't be sure of any of that. All I see is a 160$ very noticeable power increase, a sick *** intake with a nice loud supercharger whine, did I mention it was 160$.

The filters were cool, my car was faster, it sounded like a raped ape and I got it for super cheap. I could just as easily extend the pipe through like the needswings setup with little to no extra effort, hell, maybe I will order those two extra parts and two extra filters for 50$ more. Leave them bitches in my trunk and swap out if it rains or some ****, on the fly...

Doesn't make that much difference honestly. I also have my intercooler separation kit installed, forgot about that...
But yea. We can talk semantics all day and all night but I know my **** is running tough and should I get a performance pulley, I will probably devise some sort of a front mount convection system with a weather guard, because I'm awesome like that. But for now. This **** is not only awesome but it's also awesomely inexpensive.

The only difference between this and needswings is some teflon spray, welding, sanding, polishing, an emblem, a couple more feet of pipe, a couple 3 to 2.5 inch reducers and a coupler. That's it. Nothing magical. I've see. A thousand different cars with intake and rarely do you see them front mounted. That's just Ludacris. Most of the airt goes outside the bottom of my car anyways. But I'm happy. That's all that matter. All I know is, I just switched to geico....