That's exactly what I thought. I likened all the extra tubing to trying to breath underwater through a 50 foot garden hose instead of a one foot snorkel. I took it off and didn't sense a difference at all in the low end torque. If anything, the tubing was there to reduce the engine noise when the throttle is wide open. My car sounds like it had a $1500 intake and exhaust job done on it. Pretty cool actually, and it has a little more giddyap, especially when it is sucking hard on the the high end.