Show me the dyno plot to prove it. I'll admit it looks cleaner but its almost never a performance mod. My most recent experiment was a friends Celica that he insisted on putting money into so we did two dyno runs stock, two runs with just a filter and then two runs with the cold air intake and didnt let him see any of them until it was all done. He ended up gaining 3hp max somewhere in the middle powerband for the $125 he spent on the intake and the dyno operator told him the average deviation between runs can be that big when stock.
Well let me help you a bit here....is the stock celica intake that restrictive in the first place, how can you make comparisons between our intake design dimensions with the celica's?? Is the stock intake properly path-ed so the is very little restrictions.?? Was measurements made for OD OR ID? How much cfm flow does the engine flow? How much is max cfm from the TB? What exactly did you compare? Just a filter addition??
Its cool you got your contour ...this year and all. Take some of your false hopes and comments back to the old forums and take your time searching.
I'm sick of pointing out too all these newbies the old forums with a ton of great information on what has been used so this platform could be at least half way competitive in this empty market. ALot has been covered and i really don't care enough to keep wasting my time pointing this out to newbies.
Dyoel.. cover all aspects of your dyno results/comparisons and engines. Please take some time and search before making claims.