A performance difference doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Some of the best modifications are funded on Home Depot budgets.
This one is bogus. You can say it all day long, somebody has to step up and call BS.
After 4 pms with PPE, still there is no evidence of improvement. Its a simple story. If anyone has the nads to prove me wrong, I'm all humility. This is a simple discussion on whether a no cost modification to hack pieces out of an intake makes ANY difference to performane or economy.
I have 2 06 intakes sitting here, one of them with the hack modification that was pulled after exactly zero observed benefits were noted.
In an industry where economy is extremely important, and measured improvements are accounted for in 1/10 mpg intervals, anybody would be extremely foolish to not question what has been claimed here.
edit: if I am being harsh, it is only because these claims are not uncommon. My biggest beef is how the aftermarket industry is scamming its customers on a continuous basis, though that has nothing to do with PPE, I'm not making any connection there. I have no bias for or against PPE. In fact i have looked at PPE's tunes, and find them to be very good.