Two questions about my K&N Cold Air Intake

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This is the K&N Typhoon CAI, I bought a year ago and I've been using since. It's great, haven't had any problems, and I had it before I bought my exhaust and it sounded loud on high RPMS.

http://www.streetsideauto.com/p/kn-t...ir-69-3516ttk/

My question is

1. Do I need to clean the filter? I've never cleaned it but it's a washable filter an idk I just thought I might have to clean it at some point?

2. Is this really considered a Cold air intake even though its a short ram?? Because when I get my header tuned the guy asked me if I have a cold air intake, and I do but idk if it's actually considered an cold air intake that should be tuned? I've been using it for over a year and I didn't even know I could or had to tune it.

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