ADD, how would a pod filter force air in over a flat panel filter? In an atmo engine, the intake will always be negative atmospheric pressure, the most it would be able to do would equal atmospheric pressure at full noise, the pod filter would create an equal amount of restriction as a flat panel, there's no gain to be had from flat to pod the two would have the same surface area as each other. In theory the front mount air filter would suck more cold air with a surface area of 16inch by 8.5inch, as opposed to a 2.5inch pipe as a feeder to a filter sitting in a hot engine bay in the first place. In theory it seems like it would work better.
Ive seen many track car with there pod filters hanging just below the front headlights in full flow of the air, for this same reason, full cooler air compared to the engine bay heat. They use a pod filter not because if flows better, but because it can suck air in a 360 degree direction, which a flat panel can't do, and would also be to big to setup as such as this.
If you were to go this far, you would cool your fuel with a little front mount cooler, to make the fuel more dense along with the air going into the combustion chamber. I have this setup on my 32.
You can buy spacer kits for inlet manifolds that cool the intake charge air that's supposed to work pretty well i here.