you cant tune for a BOV, so throw that idea out the window. The intake can be tuned for, but it doesnt mean its done right. Snowman has said himself that he's had trouble before with certain intakes. I know he doesn't like my APS, for instance.
what sort of power levels were the cars getting that you were talking about CPages? Obviously when you get into high power levels, stock parts start becoming restrictions. But I havent seen a lightly modified car benefit from an intake yet, only suffer
I have seen several posts on Nasioc and few other articles at other outlets say that the cars are benefiting from Intake.
For instance when I had my 07' STi there where tons of people that where just running Catback, Intake and Tune that saw some amazing numbers on Dyno. I have talked to several 08' Owners that are just running CAI (AEM and P&L) with AP and have reported the car coming alive.
I could be wrong. It just seems like the days of Intake being useless on our cars are over.
I have run an intake on almost every impreza I have owned and it always improved IMHO. I know for a fact that my WRX has horrible hesitation issues out the box, then I installed Prodrive Intake and reset teh ECU and I never had any hesitation again.
- Mike