my 88 lx has a panel filter in the air box, one of my friends said something about getting a cone filter... are they any advantages? and would it be hard to do a swap?
Essentially, the reason why a cone filter is good is because you are able to install it in a variety of different places under the hood of your car. It is an improvement because you are able to build a new intake system around one. Therefore, you are able to get rid of the restricting stock set-up. Also, the design of the filter itself is supposed to allow it to gather more air than a regular rectangular filter or whatever you may have.
If you have an 88 which I figure you do by your name you do not need an MAF adapter plate. If you wish just get a piece of 3 inch piping slip into the end of the rubber connecting hose (the part that goes between the airbox and air silencer) tighten down the clamp on that end. Then slip the cone over the rest of the 3 inch pipe and secure it down with a clamp. Plus if you gut the resonator you will feel a decent difference. I noticed most of mine on the highway actually.
I tried alot of different setups when I had my '89. One with the cone mounted on the funnel shaped rubber hose that is clamped to the throttle body. I put it in the fender, I put it where the air box was, I put it where the blower used to be. I could never tell a difference between any different setups, except that is climbed to higher revs a little bit easier. I drove the car on the interstate everyday to school and never could discern a difference in how it performed before or after the engine bay heated up. The best results I got were making my flex pipe intake tube perfectly straight, with the conical stock hose piece as the only curve. It hit the rev limiter easily, whereas with multiple bends it had chugged to it's upper limits. The tube I had looked fairly awkward when perfectly straight, but who gives a **** what the engine compartment car looks like. The intake there for when you're looking out the windshield.
