I have had mine installed for over a year now and have no regrets.

It completely surprises me that any air at all gets through the stock
setup (which tries to suck air through a quarter sized hole, then
through my grandma's wool sweater, then down the hallway, around the
corner, then into the basement).

Jeffrey Leonard <jeffl@quasii.net> wrote in message news:<bfqkae$6ut$0@pita.alt.net>...
> Here's a serious Jeep question:
>
> What's the dilly-o with the K&N FIPK? I'm skeptical. It has a filter end
> that has about the same surface area as a flat K&N filter that you might
> find in a Wrangler air box.
>
> But the actual route that the air takes down that bent tube once it's
> past the filter end is LONGER in comparison with the path it takes from
> the normal airbox to the throttle.
>
> A bottleneck is a bottleneck, no? And with any fluid system, be it gas
> or liquid, the longer the bottleneck, the more restrictive that path is.
> I'm not convinced that more air is getting shoved down that longer tube.
> I would think that a path that's half the distance is going to deliver
> the air with less turbulence and resistance.
>
> What do you guys think?