Firstly,
don't take what the Banks tech person wrote as gospel. Key reason, they don't have a product for sale therefore they won't have anything nice to say about it. but like he pointed out there are good and bad of putting in a IC. I'll start with the bad. More plumbing means more stuff to take apart and/or work around. If your IC is too big, you will have a pressure drop signifigantly higher than 2-3psi. now the good part. First your EGT's will be more controllable. Second, you now can dial in more feul and boost due to the cooler air charge. Third, outside of the maintence issues, an IC is a passive HP improver. Outside of checking the connector hoses durring PM, there is nothing else that needs to be done.
Here's my point about Bank's "engineering" amongst the chebby 6.2/6.5 guys, the turbo sold be Banks is a joke. Ironically, the wastegated turbo Banks sells for the IH IDI is a superior product due to higher CFM's and spoolup time. has Banks changed their kit? Nope. if their engineering dept. is paying any attention to what's really going on out in the streets, they would have done something by now. Btw, while you are doing your research, email ATS and Hypermax and ask THEM about their IC kits. They've done their homework and will have something salient to say about IC's.