I was planning on purchasing the Spoon intake snorkel, there is just one thing that scares me: the size (or lack, thereof) it is to clear the hood at the radiator support (see pic below).
Even if not noticeable, I'm afraid that being so thin this may cause a restriction in air flow more than the stock air-horn. Has anyone actually measured the area of the inlet on the airbox compared to the thin part of the snorkel to see if it is indeed smaller?
I was originally planning on running a small pipe to the wheel well from the side of the airbox, giving more than enough air if the snorkel was restrictive. However, I decided this wouldn't be good, as it would eliminate any pressurization cause by the snorkel's "ram-air" effect.
I'd be willing to buy the snorkel and do a flow test comparing it to the air horn on the airbox stock to see if it is more restrictive. However, I have no idea how to go about this, so if anyone knows of a way I could test this I'd gladly post the results so others would know.
Here's a pic to show how thin the snorkel gets...
Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

i have it installed in mine, and it seems better then stock. you have to do the air box mod as well to get full benifits of the snorkel. j's racing also do the same snorkel so i assume its not just a gimmick and it works.

 

If you want a snorkle make a ghetto one that gets air from the passenger headlight well and send it down to the front bumper. ghetto but it might work.
on a more serious note, i have had an aem v2 and now the k&n fipk and if i was stock right now and had to do it all over again i would go the spoon snorkel route, i dont like that i have hoses hanging all over the place now. get the spoon snorkel and gut the airbox, you will be happy.

 

How do you gut the airbox?

 

Dremel tool. Remove the divider in the OEM air box and the 90 degree rectangular pipe directing air into the top of the stock air filter.

I have the Spoon snorkel, gutted air box and K&N filter. I like it

 

From my understanding, you take out the L shaped guide right in front of the air-horn, cut 3/4 of the divider in the middle of the airbox out, and plug up the resonance chamber.
(edit: kevkranker beat me to it )
I probably would be happy with the Spoon snorkel, I just want to make sure it's not restricting air flow at the thin point, which is why I asked if anyone knew of a flow test that can be done without a lot of specialy equipment.

 

What's funny to me is that people will fork out the cash for a bored throttle body and then they'll put some thing as restrictive as the snorkle on there.

Seems like a total waste of money... but that's just my opinion.

 

You cannot pressurize anything without some form of mechanical device, it doesn't matter you have a snorkel size of a construction site cone, it will not "ram" anything.

think about high and low pressure zone when the car is in motion, it doesn't matter you driving 20 miles per hour or 200, it will not pressurize or Ram anything.

with that said and done, now move onto the the snorkel itself, which i have no idea, all i said is a picture.

perhaps some spoon lover should come to defense?

 

should have posted in the JDM forum. Might get better results there IMO.

 

By pressurizing the airbox, I don't mean creating an F/I like gain, I simply mean having air pushed into the airbox constantly for better throttle response. How benifitial this is, I don't know, maybe someone with the snorkel can comment on that.