I recently purchased the K&N Typhoon intake and installed it. As this is the only intake available at this time and I was curious how is was. My question is that I know HKS is a much better system so what would be the raminfications of using the Typhoon aluminum tube with one of the HKS SMF filter. I would suspect clearance would be the only issue (HKK SMF is rather small compared to the K&N filter). I mean regardless of who makes a Intake for the 8 the tube is generally gonna be the same length. Would this work????

hmmm..actually i wondered the same thing..i know for sure the hks filter will get more air..but not by much...it would fit depending on the outlet fitting of both the filter and intake pipe...

I know both the HKS and Greddy intake filters come in different inlet sizes. I'm just thinkin that either might tighten up the air flow rather than the larger K&N filter? I could be wrong in assuming that is better. With a smaller filter I could fabricate a heat sheild.

Originally posted by MyRx-8yourcar
As this is the only intake available at this time and I was curious how is was.

Um, there are others available - several people on the forum have installed an intake from Rotary Extreme and reported similar results to the K&N (ie up to 6 hp increase above 7K rpm, and louder).

I think the K&N filter size is overkill - if you can get a smaller filter that filters better, it should still flow more than enough air! Have a look at the Rotary Extreme intake for more ideas, though.

Regards,
Gordon