I (heart) Cones
If you want that sound to be louder, get either a piece of PVC pipe or something more visually attracting and stick it where that ugly intake muffler cylinder thing is... more people will look at you, I promise. heres a funny story concerning my expirence with free flowing intakes.
Heh, I used to drive an 81 supra with a 5m-e, my first car accually... I put a k&n cone filter on it and took out that black plastic intake muffler thing and replaced it with a piece of stainless steel pipe. I took it for a "test run" and realized I had created the most annoyingly noisy car on the planet, but only under load! the sound it made was just a "Woooo" that got louder as the car got closer to its 5800 redline comparable to a diesil without an aircleaner on it. I ripped by my friends house about 4 times before he came out to see, and I quote "Who was riding their rice bike in January"...
Since then I parked the "Noise Bomb" and put the filter on my 85 supra and man, because of the more agressive cam profile, the 5m's old "Woo" transformed into what all of you cone owners might know as "that great throttling noise that the car makes when I give it some foot", I have accually recieved compliments for the sound, which is more than I can say for the noise bomb...