check out the cool intake after needswings duel intake

 

sorry engine cover

 

Looks good but curious why air filters don't match.

 

with the heat under the hood and your filters under the hood also.,, you lose about 12 to 15 HP, reroute so the filters are in front of radiator and regain your lost power sorry but true. jim

 

Why does your "Needswings" Intake not have your filters all the way out behind the grill ???

 

Two different filters?
Mounted behind the radiator so your IATs are way higher?

Why bother? It's not "cool", its a waste of effort and money.

 

needswings sent wrong one...very disappointed in that company.

 

show me a picture of your intake? the way it smashes the rubber tubes passing through the radiator core? is not the way we need air to flow .. it needs need to be a smooth uninterrupted flow...I'll get you some expert feedback stand by

 

Freemont, You make a good point, however the Needwings tubes are called Cold Air Intakes for a reason. On the right side of the car you can get the three inch silicone or harder rubber gates tube through the radiator frame wall with a little work. It will be a oblong shape when going through the fame and you use a 90 degree preformed piece on the front of the radiator. On the left side you can use a hard rubber Gates hose 24040 VULCO 2.5"to get through the smaller left side radiator frame. The 2.5" hose mates into a standard 3" silicone coupler to the metal tube. By the time the air flows through the Y fitting at the throttle plate any non laminar flow doesn't mean much. I think it is more important to have those metal tubes coated in the heat protective coating offered by Needswings than the small air flow restriction at the reduced intake volume at the radiator frame so that the air entering the engine is cooler/denser than warm air. Even the original set up from the factory draws air from forward of the radiator through those holes in the frame.
Your engine cover does look nice. Good job.

 

That is a 4 inch Y going onto the larger V8 throttle body.
Here is a picture of my SRT6 engine bay:

 

No need for "appeal to authority". We have plenty of 'expert feedback', all one need do is monitor their IAT with:
The factory intake
The configuration you have
The configuration with filters ahead of the radiator

The conclusion is easy: Lowered IATs increase performance. Of course, anyone who has done takeoff thrust calculations for even a light plane can tell you that, they can even calculate the percentage of thrust the various IAT variations mean.

 

I let Rob know he has a customer complaint.

 

Thank you for the heads up on the thread, Yes i have been in contact with Mr. Freemont multiple times over the past week. A replacement filter has already been shipped out to him immediately after hearing of the issue.

 

Very nice looking engine bay!