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I've read other posts here about removing the Air Box silencer, (the white hollow tube inside the top of the air box). I removed mine, and to be honest, I don't notice any difference on the way the car sounds. For those who have stated it "sounds better", how does it sound better? Is it louder when you are driving fast with all the windows down? It doesn't seem any loader to me in idle, or when I rev the engine while in park. Also, I don't see how this hollow white plastic tube could even be a silencer. If there were some material inside the tube to muffle sound, maybe. But a hollow tube? It seems more likely to me from my own observation that the tube is there to devert air flow into the intake from the air box. That would explain the bent angle of the tube. Why would a silencer need to be bent at a slight angle? I could be wrong since so many are claiming it to be a silencer, but where did you find out that is its purpose? Is that what Chrysler claims its function is?
Thanks.