KA24DE Intake Routing

[StoopidLoose88]

This may be a dumb question but I've searched and didn't find anything on what I was looking for. I'm in the process of tubbing the front end and doing a wire tuck on my KA. I'm getting ready to fabricate a new intake tube from the manifold to the factory MAF and then to an open filter. My question is is it alright to run this off the intake and directly behind the pass headlight, or is there a reason it has been routed across the engine bay and should I run the tubing all the way over there? I would prefer it to be on the pass side considering it would be much cleaner imo, but the KA already makes so little power I don't want to make it worse lol. Thanks for any info on the matter guys!