yes, I've seen pics of the M3 and I work with a guy who has an M5. Quite beautiful, but what do you do when you show them off at the local meet? here's my big plastic box???

 

also what about air volume in that thing, won't it need to be tuned so you don't just end up starving the stacks at high rpm?

 

it's like you could end up right back with the stock intake

 

what about the socks.... foam type filters

 

and wicky posting a bunch of posts about it....

 

????

 

if he got agricultural with an ITB-less air filter, he's ed...



when i raced baby grands (600cc yammies), we had quad carbs but ran it with a crude paper element. power sappage is obvious, so other teams ran straight carb... but then they'd get dropkicked and would go sailing into the dirt... their engines would seize immediately.



wickster, the only way to get cold air directly into the intake would be an airbox... if you wanna show off your itb's, though (which i would wanna do), you could simply route cold air over the engine, then make sure it gets quickly sucked out the back (a thin slit at the back of the hood would be perfect)

 

the biggest problem with an airbox is we cant flow test it. 90% chance that we'll end up restricting the engine more than one without ITBs because we'd create too much turbulence and back pressure

 

or he could get a hood of off of a pro-stocker

 

yeah, I was think some vents in the hood like hecash's. did you see those pics? far enough to the side of the hood to still be low pressure and pull the air out. The trick is getting more cold are into the engine.... maybe some of those baffels like the Ztec heat sheild could be mounted to cut off the header side and maybe even the radiator, from the intake side..... I'll have to think more on this, but I bet small vents at each corner of the rear of the hood would be a good start.....