New HKS air filter., Reloaded. Options

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Well i ordered an HKS filter a little while ago, open the box and i was surprised it didnt look like my last hks filter. so i went online to check and see if i got scammed lol. turns out HKS has a new filter on the market.
http://www.hksusa.com/

HKS Racing Suction Reloaded Kits have been developed as the leading intake system for high performance applications. Each kit features aluminum suction pipes that have been tested for optimal air flow. Included in each kit is HKS' Reloaded filter with its patented Super-Funnel and new technical advances:
- Filter cage allows for 30% more intake surface area
- Aluminum back plate for added strength
- Sealing ring reduces contaminants from entering engine
- Dual Density wet filter element

heres pics i took of it. looks like it will filter better than the last one i had.

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do a google search, Apexi took the win easily, hks took last (i'm too lazy to go find it...)

i went with HKS for space reasons.

thats the "test" i refer to as the marketing ploy. i just dont see that happening.
people who go by that "test" arent any smarter than anyone else they are just listening to the results of some test in japan. im not gonna go buy every intake and go test them to find the real winner with my own test and experiment. i just dont think what a couple of guys did with a vacuum cleaner can accurately test a filter. a flawed test will give flawed results

Are the particles they use the ones we find in the air around us? or just ones they found on the floor after sweeping the garage floor? was the filter designed to actually encounter these particles? how much of the particles were used? did they use 4X as much as would be normally seen in 10 yrs? or what u typically encounter in a yr of driving? did the filter actually hold a certain amount of particles and then they just drowned the filter in more and thats not what the filter is made for. sooo many things to factor in. was the air turbulent? flow is one thing, and clean air is another, but it depends on how they performed the test. Thats why im skeptical. even the guy posting it on the website says it might be a ploy. a giant commercial for apexi because not many people bought there intakes.