air intake damage
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- for a system like that fitted to the XF with the airboxes in the engine bay fed by intake snorkels under the leading edge of the hood/bonnet, a cone filter set-up like the Mina one does not improve power/torque/horsepower at all and most probably reduces all of them as it turns out to be a "hot air intake".
- but it does release a sizeable whack of SC whine (due to the deletion of the stock Helmholtz resonators).
- K&N air filters also make zero difference to hp, torque or performance as they flow no better than the already very good stock filters.
- however on a system like the F-Type and XKR with the airboxes mounted low down behind the front wheels, replacing the stock airboxes with cone filters doesn't reduce power/torque/performance and possibly improves all of them slightly, and you get a big increase in SC whine (I have the Mina lower intake set up with cone filters on the F-Type but the stock upper intake set-up).
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