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Originally Posted by ace996
Yep, and they've designed every part of the car for ultimate performance, right? The extra cats, the rubber suspension bushings, the charcoal filters integrated into the air-filters...all are compromises...just like the nostril on the hood.
I suspect that the engineers that you so fondly speak of had to incorporate those hood nostrils on the car for visual purposes, as it is one of them are faux.
I've been around the block enough times to know that a hole in an airbox is not optimal. Thanks for your thoughts, though.
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On that train of thought, if the one functional side didn't do anything, why make one functional and one not. Just make both cosmetic only to save money on ducting. It obviously there for a reason. What that reason is will be hard to determine without actually being part of the design process. The beauty of engineering is that there is never only one right way to do things. The ultimate goal can be accomplished multiple ways.