Get rid of the intake? Are you nutts? Do know how well an extude honed Cobra upper and lower flow? Not to mention that it's an extremely rare piece to find now. A stock one that is.
Just to make this Civic guy feel even worse, I found out that I ran him on 7 cyclinders, and no traction loc (putting the clutch packs in it now). I was a one wheel wonder and still spanked him.
Oh and getting the $ from him wouldn't have been that hard to do, he couldn't run fast enough.
