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As a side note, I find it funny that Autospeed says the Insight intake is 'tiny' then say it's the lowest restriction ever at peak power.

That whole chart makes little sense as you have cars being tested at a few hundred horsepower, and the "lowest restriction ever" being tested at only 70ish hp.

So really, the Insight intake box is HUGE for 70hp, not tiny. And if you were to run the other cars at 70hp, it probably wouldn't be the lowest restriction intake ever anymore.

One comment on cold air intakes - vehicles with MAF sensors are particularly sensitive to how air goes over them. If you force air over a MAF sensor on the highway, the MAF tends to overcompensate and move up to higher load table in ecu and inject more fuel than is actually required for that load condition. I've seen drops on a GT time every time with any time of cold air intake that forced air over MAF. On really effective intakes, there was actually an accompanied drop in power as the vehicle ran too rich.

If you are going to do cold air on MAF sensor vehicle, I would put the intake 90 degrees to the air flow so as to not change air going over sensor.

I don't think low restriction is the only thing that Honda was aiming for, but my thinking goes into wave theory, length of intake track, etc.. gives me something to try, more than time to get into.