No normal car has "value" except for what you value it at. They are all depreciating assets and even though extremely expensive, largely disposable.
Either way, get what you like and can afford and enjoy it. Don't worry that some other dude paid less, there is always someone who paid less...
We did the hose trick on ours. My wife loves it, I have to admit it makes me giggle too. Now with the intake you can hear the air sucking in and then blowing out. Poor thing sounds like she has a cold.
The black diamond is really even more offroady with wash out interior and MGV seats. Stay where you are if it's bronco you're after.
Also plenty of dirt roads in FL to go tear-assing down (at least in the panhandle and across). We do mainly forest service roads that you could gingerly take a...
I wonder if the guys who work at Ford can tell us what might have changed between the 22s and 23s. Sounds like, at a minimum, they have trimmed down tolerances in the ECU.
Intake done. Need to tear into the interior and put the sound deadening I bought 2 months ago in. It's a daunting task that I think will take the whole weekend so we haven't jumped into it.