removing the air chamber on the intake tube

Is the air expansion chamber attached to the piece of hose that runs from the box to the throttle body an important device or just an acoustic silencer? Can i remove it and plug off the holes or does it need to stay put?

Just a helmoltz resonator. Yank it if you can.

Sweet i was hoping that it could go away an give a little more sound. Nice intake by the way it looks very professional and i intend to go with your design when i build one of my own. I just destroyed my stock setup trying to build an intercooler out of my stock box, but fortunately i found a 1995 wrecked at a local yard in my town and took the intake from it.

thanks. I find my intake looks pretty "ghetto" but it works and it is cheap.

Well i will probably paint mine but other than that it looks about seven thousand times better than the frankenstein i created. I almost glad my roomate lost my camera- i was embarrased how ghetto my stuff looked i used blue silicone