Unfortunately no aftermarket intake will give any measurable performance benefit and so it is kind of a waste of money. The most you’ll get is a noise increase and depending on the air intake oil in the throttle body and more particulates in engine (which is bad). Most modern vehicles have a “CAI” from the factory, it just doesn’t look cool or blingy being a black plastic box. Also a word of caution don’t bother with any exhaust mods after the exhaust manifold. You’ll only get noise and tons of drone because the cabins of these is a large resonating chamber. I know I’ve done it with both of my GX’s and I’m about to put back on the factory mufflers. De-mommifying is great just don’t expect any performance increase without an ECU tune.
My recommendation is to go with something like an AEM or other dry (no oil) drop-in filter and find someone local to tune the ECU. Of course there’s all the visual and mechanical mods outside of the engine to do. Hate to kill the buzz, these just aren’t designed to be hot rods. Of course a supercharger solves this problem but you’re looking at $10k for that.
