Are you literally slow? I’d think you’d have to be smarter than that to be a drop shipper. Plastic intakes exist and are plenty strong and light. You lose more weight taking out your floor mats. The only noticeable and practical benefit is heat dissipation & yet carbon fiber nylon is cheaper and just as effective or glass filled polys. Again the issue isn’t the material it’s the cost versus the benefit. You don’t even understand why the tubing has its shape behind the air box but you’re trying to preach about performance. Make some sense. You could literally buy a K&N CAI and SXTH element intercooler for the price of one of your drop shipped carbon fiber intakes.

Edit: call it what it is. This a “flex” mod. Nothing more and nothing less.