Yesterday, I work through until midnight to setup my open pod...finally got it installed....I wanted to do some test between drop in and open pod. It terms of intake temperature. I ran the POD without any CAI

After installing the POD, induction sound was much louder when throttle is applied. Power gain? Need to use Dash Command to run test to verify.

This morning, my test was more focus on intake temp. When on stock air box. The intake temp when the engine is fully warmed up and driving is around 43c give and take. When stop temp goes up until 46 give and take. When the car is moving the temp will have a constant of 42c +- at speed of 80 and above.

With the POD, i notice a drop in intake temp at speed of 80 and above. Temp taken this morning was around 38c +- BUT when the car stop at traffic lights the temp goes up pretty quick until 46~47C but once the car start to move back the temp drops down pretty fast. A strong jab on the throttle makes the temp drop another 1 to 2C.

NOW, I'm not concluding that Open pod is better but I notice with a POD the temp fluctuation is more noticeable then when I was using the stock air box.

On power wise, my initial findings, is that Mid range give more pull RPM from 2.5K until 5K was the most obvious but at 4th gear from 5K until redline seems a slow to me....This gives me an impression that it has narrow down the powerband. Compare to the stock air box.

Now, my findings is telling me that aix box has the best overall powerband as it's wider = more usable power range for daily drive. The powerband of the POD i believe is only useful for track (depending on track also) since most of the time the rev will hover around that area.

Since I have my airbox removed, I'm now finding ways to wrap the air box up with cooking aluminium foil. IF I can get the temp to go down as the same like a POD then it will be (killing 2 birds with 1 stone).

Above is my own theory and findings, it could be right or it could be wrong but owners are all welcomed to chip in and join this discussion.