Si Speed, thanks for adding so much to this thread. I like the fact that the S2K, and RSX intakes use cone filters, but that's about the only thing. I just don't see how they would fit our needs, and might actually complicate the situation by giving us new problems like trying to figure out fitment issues.
I haven't looked at my stock airbox in a long time becuse it's under a bunch of crap in my storage closet, but I think using our stock box makes our design a lot easier. It's got the lower opening (the one that connects to the resinator) in case we want to run something like this:
Weapon*R Racing Development...to the front bumper.
Ideally, I love Bill's idea about the cowl induction because there's a ton of air to catch there, and it's got a shorter distance to travel versus running a tube to the front bumper (even though I think this route would be the easiest solution for us). I do worry about a lot of rain water being sucked directly in through the cowl induction method, not to say the bumper method would suck up less, but I think that less water would actually reach the filter area this way.
Maybe modify the stock airbox with the "Poor Man's Icebox DIY", use bigger CRV tube to the throttle body, run the Weapon R Ram Air tube to the bumper...then all we have to do is figure out how to get a cone filter to work inside the box.
After all that, I've got a stupid newb question. Why does it have to be a cone filter?