Originally posted by JonnySVT:
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Otherwise it will likely drop power by ingesting the much hotter air rising off the engine, tranny, and radiator.



That's exactly what i was thinking, that's why I asked. But I hear it's "tried and true"....


Brad had a large heatshield shielding a large portion of his filter.
He also used an insanely long filter that stuck down farther.

The first is a MUST.
The second is a skip it. (stick to a filter roughly 2 times your max cfm draw) Too large a filter can actually hurt performance.

2000 SVT #674 13.47 @ 102 - All Motor! It was not broke; Yet I fixed it anyway.