Thanks, for your input... . I bought mine the other day and am expecting it this week Ill let you know how it turns out. I agree that you have to try different things and this system looks awesome.
If any one is interested, the cheapiest I found it was 279. 99 with free shipping. It does come with an afe filter (not the pro 7 thou) and all kits do come with the prefilter sock.
My reasoning for buying this kit is I live up her in Minesota and we got lots of road salt/sand mix. I was concerened that with how open the AFE was I might be screwed. Volant has the box around the filter and claims it gets its cold air from outside, and gets as much air as the AFE system... . Will see I guess