Alan

.... its all very strange to me - who else is being rude?

I'm not against radical solutions - certainly go ahead move the engine to the middle!

Most of the time the factory did a pretty good job of engineering the car.

I'm open to changing lots of things, but only for the better. For me it takes a good long while to figure out if there is a real problem worth solving and what 'better' might actually be.

Simple question: what is the goal? lower intake air temperatures running at speed, lower air intake temps while idling/crawling in traffic, or both?

I was thinking primarily of the first case - to me it has the most benefit

Alan

The Fixer

To cool intake temps further I will fit an air collector to utilize the pressure build in the location directly over the air cleaner by creating a seal bridge between the hood and cleaner lid.

A second light sheet aluminum ram scoop (more of a dished short ducktail) could reshape the air to add more charge (guessing) or it could be as shown
in the pics and it probably should be the length of the air cleaner below to really go for it..If the louvers were angled to grab ait that would also work better
but i haven't figured out in my head how i would seal it if caught in the rain.

But it would definitely have to have a simple method to close the louvers from under the hood (sliding sheet of louvered aluminum) to avoid hydrolocking if caught in the wet.

Above 65 mph the air collector under the wing on the later water cooled 911 GT3s (2005-on) added 10 HP and up to 15 HP as speeds increased.

Worth investigating the possibility of a gain as my hood is already chopped.

If a secondary riveted on painted aluminum scoop (ala WRX) could be nice too.