Originally posted by stunts:

The short of it would be: is the heat shield a must in a warm (but not hot) climates, and will the heat soak potentially negate the benefits of the filter?

Thanks.





I'd say yes and yes. I'm also in SoCal and without the heatshield, I would get a ton of heatsoak in traffic. The stock intake gets cooler air, but is restrictive. With an open-air filter there is no restriction, but you're sucking in hot air. Why not get the best of both worlds and use an open-air filter and use a heatshield to suck in cool air. Make sense to me . Installing a tube through the fenderwell to the air dam area to get cold air to the filter also helps.

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