No the intake is not damaged, that section you see on the intake is simply from glare when we took the picture.

 

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i had this on my old S and LUV'd

 

if only i had 1.2k to blow away :[

 

Is this a new version? It looks different from the ones I normally see. The opening of the scoop is much smaller from the ones that mount to the OEM bumper. Maybe this is the Type-S bumper version?

 

looks like the type-s bumper version

 

I was thinking the same thing, here is a pic of the mouth of the snorkel through the front bumper of my old S:

....it's hard to see but if you look you can see the edges of the mouth, almost the heigth of the grill

 

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