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Originally Posted by PunjabiM3
Hate to say it, but I am sure the BMW engineers have a lot more knowledge in this area than yourself or just about anyone on this forum. If using the hood scoop/vent as a ram-air or not having it altogether would have yielded 5 or 10 more hp, I am sure they would have designed the intake in that fashion instead.
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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.