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Hopper, I looked at your pix. So the Honker makes provision for the MAF to be up against the engine?
What about the amount it rises over the radiator cover? As I mentioned before, that was my beef with the old Halltech bridge I had.
Its just a C5 corvette. They aren't valuable or collectable. They are just a sports cars. Hacking up a radiator shroud isn't going to devalue your car any more or any faster than it will naturally lol. Might as well just enjoy it and go nuts. Order a factory shroud from VetteNuts if it makes you feel better.
While the stock airbox is a pile of horse excrement, you're not going to break the dyno with a new air filter. If you're going to shell out cash for a new intake, get one that removes the air bridge and sucks air from the bottom of the car. And is at least well made.
Therefore, Callaway Honker by a mile- it's the only intake that removes the wonky air bridge, moves the MAF, and it's the only intake that actually draws in cold air- as these cars are naturally bottom breathers. And it's the only intake that doesn't look like the plastic molds came from a Rover factory located in the Midlands during the 1970's. It also looks stock and it's clean. If you didn't know, you'd think the car came that way.
The Halltech is a close second.
Third place is build your own but that requires more hacking- the benefit is you can use any sized filer you want and you can get really creative with the routing and its much cheaper.
Jumped from a Blackwing to a Honker after I installed a cam. I didn't get the appeal of the Vararam intake and in the 10 plus years I've been driving on the track did anyone "pull away from me" because they had a Vararam. It was the dudes running ITB's and FAST intakes on a bit beefier engines- those guys pulled away on the straights.
Meanwhile the Blackwing, Vararam, and Honker dudes were too busy comparing subjective dyno charts and aligning their Chakras in the pits.
Haha nice! Well I'm definitely between the Honker and the Vararam. I suppose I'll pull the trigger on one of them relatively soon.
For what it's worth, I've been really happy with the AFE intake.
It replaces the air bridge with nice, large piece and puts a nice filter in a good spot. The Honker was my #1 option initially, but cutting up the shroud worried me on engine cooling and the possibility of ingesting water into the intake. I drive my Vette in the rain so it was a concern.
I had to play with couplers to make it all meet up with the sheetmetal intake, but that wasn't horrible at all.
Last edited by partspusher; Sep 2, 2019 at 09:16 PM.
