You COULD do that...and have the thing flailing around everywhere in the fender (or the engine bay for that matter). It has no support like every other intake out there - cheap or brand name - you would essentially have a flappy penis flopping around in your engine bay/fender possibly getting caught in something and breaking it. I'm sure it's stronger then what I'm making it sound as, but seriously this DOES look like dryer hosing a POS filter at the end. It's probably better then the stock intake we have but I doub it's better then your SRI. To put it in perspective, my cone filter I bought to replace the one that came with my eBay one cost me ~90USD...this thing goes for 20USD.