I’ve long wondered about those vents myself in heavy rain. While driving, not so much, but it’s a factor. The bigger issue is when the vehicle is parked. So I’ve questioned the functionality. Non CE hood, you don’t have to worry about rain water cycling through the engine bay. So even now I don’t even know if the venting of the engine through the hood vents is worth this trade off. Especially, for people who are going to drive in all sorts of inclement weather. I’m not buying an AWD hatchback to drive it only on fair weather days. If that was the case I’d go RWD.
Food for thought for the guys who want to run open filter intakes
So I installed my CE hood last week and was able to install my water channels on the underside of the hood today. However after I installed them I got to thinking about the fact that these are designed to channel water that’s collected in the hood vents to pass the oem intake and down into the engine bay. However these open element designs were done before the CE was released so they don’t take into account that these vents exist. I decided to pour some water down my drivers side vent (the only one that matters) and see where it lands. On my prototype intake it’s Landing just behind the new breather or on the lid. However some of these intakes like the MST with their open boxes are going to be like nice buckets collecting all that water and pushing it DIRECTLY under the filter which is inhaling air and potentially water.
it would have to be a significant amount of water to cause issues but food for thought On those looking at open intakes with the CE or CE hood. Car washing without drying or a major rain storm would be 2 areas I’d be a bit uncomfortable with.
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it would have to be a significant amount of water to cause issues but food for thought On those looking at open intakes with the CE or CE hood. Car washing without drying or a major rain storm would be 2 areas I’d be a bit uncomfortable with.
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Factory intake though in that ad haha
It makes the entire front end look so much better though, just sayin 🤷🏼♂️Don't get a circuit hood. Save the money.
I'm in the same boat. I hope someone makes the rumor rendered drop vent with the bulge 😁
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