So, the Mountune Kit. It consists of some silicon piping to connect a K&N RC-5134 70mm offset pod filter and fit it inside a plastic 'box' with upper and lower half clamshells. You can see from this image that the upper clamsell uses the same mount holes as the factory plastics, but it does not provide any 'over the cross beam' additional air flow.
You might think that cold air would get sucked through that port, but you'd be wrong. The upper and the lower box are significantly different shapes, they don't seal together, and there are holes all over the place.
On the back:
On the side facing the engine:
It's just not conducive to Cold Air at all. It does have a lower hose connecting down to the lower front grill for cold air, but that's a bit of a waste of time when hot air can be so much more readily drawn into it.
There's not much room in there when you see the top off - it's all a bit of a squeeze - so you can't really be too critical for them making the best of a difficult situation. The location of air pod is somewhat limited by the use of a 45 degree silicon tube with the head breather offshoot.
So that's the constraints of what we're working with.
Is there a better way? I'm hoping to give it a try.
Lukeyson