I bought my wife a knockoff Lego Sasquatch for her desk for Christmas and then I found the Lego bronco a couple weeks ago. She just finished it today so here’s Bigfoot with his Sasquatch bronco.
If you're up to the intake inlet, you're too deep anyway. Cowl would be difficult due to how air works, it's lifting up over the car at that point and would be low flow unless you had a massive scoop that forced it there.
The biggest difference I saw was the stock IC, while definitely running cool when under acceleration, will slowly start building up the average. Example:
90 degrees steady state
80 upon accel
102 upon getting off
92 degrees steady
80 upon accel
105 getting off
94 degree steady
and so on...
I can see the injen being a royal PITA but it's like a once a year/every year and a half job so I'll just suck it up because it and the K&N are the only ones which improve the piping, which is where the real benefit is.
Yes I did, probably 2 hours total, most of it in the disassembly portion. Need a second set of hands for the bumper removal/install and should probably use two people for the intercooler but I managed by myself.
I don't think there is much difference between any of the brands so I wouldn't fret...
We've been hovering around 18 for probably 5-6 months so, yeah, 1.7 total since switching to Sunoco is pretty crazy in this thing where you can fight for .1 for 2 weeks and lose it in 5 minutes.