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      11-02-2012, 09:23 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by Ghines1279 View Post
alot of car manufactures have constricting air boxes to reduce engine noise. If our cars were designed to the max then BMW should include their performance parts instead of trying to rape us...
Dinan's intake looks like the best compromise, even AFE (although that's for the N20)...key to air coming in is it should be:
1. COLD (boxed off from the engine bay at the minimum)
2. CONSISTENT (the ENTIRE filter area is exposed to the cold air)
3. SMOOTH (minimize air turbulence)

If there is a smooth "funnel" that feeds into the existing airbox for N55 engines, that would be the "best" layout - I believe that was the strategy for Dinan's N54 intake.
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