If you put your IAT in the LIM, you'd see the point I'd be making with intake style being moot.
Intercooled; sure...the cooling effect there is there. Everything coming out post blower temps is basically magma. So that 50~* ambient difference isn't going to do a damn thing once that heat soaked M90 does work.
I give you an E for effort, but these are the wrong cars to care about intake placement. To squeeze every little ounce of power out of it...maybe?
But I'm lazy...and can make an intake in five minutes...verses that closed box, Wizaired business that's way too involved for me just for the same gains (or within a couple horsepower) of an open cone, that's also much cheaper.
So; I'll enjoy my louder, whine-ier intake...that's cheaper and basically does the same thing. Until you move the crossover under the car, no intake is better than the other. Address the issue, don't bandaid it. No one cares enough to do that; so live with it. Quit beating a dead horse.
That's how I feel about it.
