That's a shame. I had the PRL stage 1 paired with a k&n filter. I had trouble with the PRL stage 1 because it caused a hose to rub against the top of my hood. I tried everything to fix the fitment but no luck. Ended up returning the pair. I was considering Mishimoto because it's carb legal and sounds pretty good.
What did you switch it out for? Since the heat soaking has been brought to my attention, I'm really concerned about the damage it would do to the engine.
Lol you're not doing damage to the engine. The heatsoak people are describing is like 10 degrees F. It's also almost completely mitigated if you apply some reflective heat tape to it.
I think what the last few posts are trying to say is you are worrying over nothing. I had full bolt ons and a tune with zero heat shielding and I had no issues. Sometimes it's best not to read everything in a forum cause people for thier own reasons make a bigger deal out of stuff then it really is. Daily driving you got no "heat soak" issues. If you are gonna run it full throttle all day on a track yeah sure. But daily driver... Get the intake put it on and enjoy you don't need heat shielding. That first whoosh blow off sound after install you won't care any more lol
If you're going to heat tape it, you have to do the outside. Heat tape does not provide any insulation whatsoever, the whole point of it is to reflect radiant heat away. That means it needs to be on the outside to work.
You're absolutely right. I'm probably overthinking it. I drive pretty casually and like to get on the throttle once per drive
