Has anyone though of routing the intake tubes with some fabrication into where the interior headlights are housed? When I removed my headlight and routed air on my old 94 Supra turbo it consistently picked up 1 mph in the ET...about 10rwhp.

I was wondering if you all though this could be done somehow while retaining the beauty of the vehicle -- perhaps cutting out the back of the lights?

I think there is another 15hp to be had in a well designed air intake system on our cars.

 

The stock system is a good one. On your supra with your air filter where it was you were drawing air off the header and radiator. with the headlight out you were drawing ambient air rather than hot air. ram air is a myth


on our cars it is designed to draw air from in front of the radiator, so there is not much to be done with it

 

I hear ya, but one would think that if you made the air path more direct with a larger surface area it should provide more flow. Its really the inlet diameter that I am trying to increase.

 

Ram air really only works at speeds over 65 mph

 

Have you ever felt the intake tubes after driving around? I'm sure the cooling effect of ambient air would help somewhat. I did notice similar gains on my own MKIV single turbo and have wondered the same thing. Too bad it would look like total *** driving around all the time missing lights on an $80k+ car.

 

Would it work if it's redirected to where the fog lamps are?

 

I'm kind of surprised someone hasn't figured out a way to do something with the foglights to help brake cooling. If i'm not mistaken the M5 has no fog lights for this very reason. Shouldn't be hard to do.