Bob, I wonder if you having your top cover off helps. The Typhoon puts to cone at the fender in the SHO but its still a no go. Is the pipe on your custom job plastic or metal?

Which CAI is this? Typhoon?

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800 bucks! Wowzee

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Looks great though.  Similar to the Hennessey CAI piping.  Darreli has that and claims it really doesn't help much.  Perhaps he can chime in.

For those who asked, yes, mine is the K&N Typhoon and I also have the prefilter.  I can tell you that after driving it hard, the metal tube usually  still not hot, even though the engine is hot.  As stated earlier I am a complete novice on this stuff so i have no idea what difference that makes - except when I touch exposed metal in a hot engine, I am expecting it to be hot.  I concur that the Airaid is just eye candy, and likewise, only get the K&N if you like to hear your car sucking air and hissing like a crazed animal.   If there are any performance gains under certain conditions, consider it icing on the cake.   

p.s. You can control (eliminate)the sucking air sound and BOV sound by driving conservatively.....but why would you do that?

As far as how things work I'm like TSS a novice, but I have an engineering question. If air input is so vital to performance with turbos, why would Ford design the air intake to be just that small little rectangle on the front plastic part of engine bay?
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Not only that, the weather stripping almost completely blocks the flow.  I cut mine out in front of the little scoop like BPD did.

is there any added turbo noise with just adding a K&N filter to the stock air box ?

does this intake below have any performance advantages over the just the drop in filter ?

://www.ebay.com/itm/K-N-69-3531TS-Typhoon-Cold-Air-Intake-Filter-Assembly-Silver-/161135015485?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&fits=Year%3A2013%7CSubmodel%3ASHO&hash=item258465363d&vxp=mtr#ht_1778wt_939

To answer your question about the ANY intake having ANY performance gains over the drop in, and i believe there is a dyno sheet somewhere around here, showing that all "Cold air intake" IE tyhpoon, air raid, do not make any more power than the K N Drop in, intake just more noise. I believe once the engine is heat soaked, it creates less power due to sucking in the hot air.

Turbo noise off the Drop in.... There is more noise, but i would not say turbo noise until your near red line.