The K&N cone with a good heatshield provides essentially no power by itself. It does, however, provide a bit of improvement to throttle response: optimize the TB too to make it more pronounced.

And it sounds frickin' awesome.

-Philip Maynard '95 Contour [71 STS | Track Whore] '97 Miata [71 ES | Boulevard Pimp] 2006 autocross results