My friend bought the wrong size air filter for his car, so he gave it to me. And now I have a question about it. Dont have any pictures of it but it looks like the one below, but what is the purpose of the, I guess housing around the filter? Is it just for looks, or does it help in any way? I mean I have a RAI on already...he gave it to me for free, so I was like sure why not.... Thanks!

 

Looks restrictive as hell.

Go K&N or AEM's new dry filter.

 

some sort of heat sheild maybe

 

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ima say its supposed to act as a heat shield as well.

 

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yea thats what i would think too...but looks like its going to struggle to suck in air though...

 

looks

 

eBay?

 

It's got no purpose. That air filter is supposed to "look" like an HKS SSQ blow-off valve.

The filter is probably a really shitty paper cone, and in all honnesty, is probably super restrictive.