i do, i have a K&N airfilter system, and what i did, this may or may not work good, or may or may not be done the best that it could have, but i fabricated a heat shield around the cone and the resonator box (i think thats it) and made nice sized holes to perfectly fit the tube and the sensor, it works great, its gettin prretty beat up, i should make anew one some day, ill get some pics for u to give u an idea...
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Its a terrible picture, but it kinda shows my fabrication.
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[/TD][/TR][/TABLE] Well, usually the airbox isn´t the biggest restriction.. it´s the tiny filter element. By installing a large cone you´re increasing the surface area of the filter element.. but if you´re sucking in hot engine air you´re wasting your time. Also, by removing the box you´re taking away a big intake tract muffler that the engineers decided would help lessen NVH... and your engine will make a louder intake growl whenever you open the throttle. The effect usually makes people think their engine is much more powerful than it was before... even though overall hp usually changes less than 2 hp (up or down) from the stock configuration when adding a cone filter.
You could make a long pipe cold air intake and mount a filter right behind a grill opening, but making such a long intake means your throttle response will suffer. Adding an oversized cold air box, with a cone filter inside, close to the engine, with adequate access to cold air, is probably one of the better intakes for the street that I can think of.
As for Air Ram, it´s been shown time and time again that the whole air ram thing doesn´t really work as well as advertised. Unless of course you use a NACA duct
I think one would look nice on the front of the scort hood.. dumping directly into a tupperware container :-]
OT: I tried to get some Nokians this winter.. but noone in my area carries them Got some Michelin Alpins instead :-? What model Nokians are those?
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[/TD][/TR][/TABLE] Well, usually the airbox isn´t the biggest restriction.. it´s the tiny filter element. By installing a large cone you´re increasing the surface area of the filter element.. but if you´re sucking in hot engine air you´re wasting your time. Also, by removing the box you´re taking away a big intake tract muffler that the engineers decided would help lessen NVH... and your engine will make a louder intake growl whenever you open the throttle. The effect usually makes people think their engine is much more powerful than it was before... even though overall hp usually changes less than 2 hp (up or down) from the stock configuration when adding a cone filter.
You could make a long pipe cold air intake and mount a filter right behind a grill opening, but making such a long intake means your throttle response will suffer. Adding an oversized cold air box, with a cone filter inside, close to the engine, with adequate access to cold air, is probably one of the better intakes for the street that I can think of.
As for Air Ram, it´s been shown time and time again that the whole air ram thing doesn´t really work as well as advertised. Unless of course you use a NACA duct
I think one would look nice on the front of the scort hood.. dumping directly into a tupperware container :-]OT: I tried to get some Nokians this winter.. but noone in my area carries them
Got some Michelin Alpins instead :-? What model Nokians are those?
those nokians gripped almost too well i´d say, very well in the winter, didnt do much sliding or anything, but i COULD NOT turn over the tires (it was auto) they just gripped to well , oh well, that car is gone
, oh well, that car is gone 
Here is my ramair. It´s little bit different now but idea is the same.
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