[chris91LX]

I've never heard anything good about the box intakes except for guys making insane horsepower. The stock intake is about as good as the stock heads, which is to say fine if you want to stay stock. If your looking to upgrade most of the aftermarket intakes are good, Edelbrock performer and rpm, Trick Flow makes a good intake for a good price and the Holley is very popular and can handle about as much power as you might want to throw at it. The question is how much money do you want to spend and what are your plans with your car.

Since you still have the stock heads, ported and polished, I don't think you need to go too big with the intake, I personally think the Holley is overkill unless your running serious HP or a blower or other power adder (just my opinion for all you Holley lovers out there). I'm running a ported Cobra I got used for $200 with Edelbrock heads and a TFS stage 1 cam and I'm just under 300rwhp and 315 lbs of torque. I think a ported Cobra or GT 40 would be a decent intake for your combo or maybe a Edelbrock Performer. If your going to upgrade to aftermarket heads in the future you might want to consider the Edelbrock RPM or even the Holley if you plan to go big. The Explorer lower is the same as the Holley BTW so that might not be a bad call either. Trick Flow also makes some very good intakes if you like the looks (which I personally don't). Anyway just my .02