Hey Guys, it's official! I'm a "CEGer"!
Re: the aluminium foil is applied shiny side out to reflect the heat away from the intake pipe. Will update when I get around to doing it.
Re: the intake I made is fairly close to the one I saw on "High Rev Tuners" (Speedchannel) Sunday night. It was on a Focus ZX5, made of metal and had smoother bends, but put the filter pointing down just in front of the master cylinder.
So far I'm happy with it. Did the mod between fills, idled it for 1.5 hours (forgot about it!) after resetting the comp., have been screaming around 'cos I like the sound and I still got 27 MPG! (24mpg US gallons) Best I ever got before was 26 (Imperial/English) and I really babied it!
Wonder if the Mobil 1 has anything to do with it?