Rwillia4,
Yes, I am stacked to the max. They look a lot bigger than they really are, at least from a height perspective. They are only 4 inches high, but they were custom spun to match the 56mm throttle bodies, so they are much wider than the average stack, making them look huge.
I have talked to a few smart guys about this filtering problem, and what they all told me was that you can either breathe well, or look good, there is nothing in the middle. My big filter box (as well as that one from TWM) are ugly, but do what we ask of them very well, breathe and filter. Its like a woman, if you marry a super model, don't expect a home cooked meal waiting for you every night, but damn do they ever look good. So, I have decided to have the two solutions do what they are supposed to for their missions, and switch them out when I need them to change. I will keep the ugly but efficient solution for the track, and individual filters for normal driving where I don't need all the HP. I also am having a machine shop build me some brackets that take the angle out of the stacks at the throttle body. They will basically staighten the stacks so they look more weber like... I know it will screw air flow a little, but the stacks on these systems don't do much but staighten/speed up the air and look good, but they are not required by any stretch of the imagination. I also think this will require two different tunes of the ECU to be switchable as well. 98% of my driving will be on the street with only the occasional WOT, so I won't be switching them around every day or anything. This is based on the advice I have recieved from several people. I actually thought long and hard about pulling the EFI off the car and going back to a carb, although a VERY good one like the Barry Grant Race Demon... but I can't do it.
This is a copy of a chassis dyno done to compare the old Might Demon 850 carb with Victor Jr. intake to this efi setup on the exact same setup in my car. The lines are a little wobbly because the injection and spark curve tune were not perfect (not even close) when I got the car. Much smoother now, but my ECU is a MegaSquirt which works but will be replaced with a Haltech when my wife gives me back access to our account...lol.
With some recent drivetrain efficiency improvments, I am guessing I am 580-600 HP at the engine.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble, but I have spent entire days looking for a solution to this same filtration problem and talked to lots of folks. I have one last shop to talk to that will certainly have lots of experience in this stuff... Holman Moody.. 10 mines from my house.
James