[stefcio007]

When removing the plastic piece it was even lower than you see. Check out the area around just below the throttle body pipe. Make sure there are no obstructions and just feed the pipe down.

Honestly it required a bit of force and I pushed it down only just enough to get the clearance. It really is tight for space down there, not impossible though.

Good luck.

You can get the "crows foot" tool that let's you undo the filter but haven't tried that and apparently even with the tool getting the filter out once you undo it is still a small challenge still need to get the cables out of the way.