LOL you go ahead and do the drop in been there done that and swapped back the AEM CAI after dyno'ing h:

 

well he's talkin about putting a cone filter on the end of the stock intake hose which will essentially give him a short ram. so i would expect that the K&N drop in without the resonator would give more gains since it's pulling air from outside of the engine bay.

 

my previsous statement was against the "poor man's CAI" post
as for his question i answered him already in my post above the last 2

 

i have them some where i'll search when i get home and take a digi pic of. the main results of my swapping back and forth was a choking problem i was having on the intake side of things. i honestly thought it was my intake but after running the car on the dyno and everythign else i went with the one with the highest gains.. the generic intakes where ones they had in the shop laying around (not purchased my be) the DC sport one was one i had in the beginning. the drop in was an idea from the mechanic to see if the stock system was working vs. the after market ones.. since the DC one i had attached to the stock piping.

order of my intake systems in my car:
stock system
DC sports Short ram (on stock plastic hosing w/ no res.)
AEM CAI w/ Bypass
Stock intake system w/ drop in (no res.)
generic CAI & short ram (supplied by them)

 

But having the cone filter is much less restrictive.