Weird Plugs On Hood?
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Weird Plugs On Hood? Not sure if this is the right spot but its going here anyway.
I was washing my car today, cleaning the engine bay, and was wiping down the underside of the hood. I found 4 circles to the back of the Ram air nostrils, filled with thesse push-in pop-out "PLUGS". There are 4 of them. I popped all of them out thinking mayb it would be extra air coming in through the hood, and it seems possbile, but there is NOT a direct flow through. These wholes are about 1/4-1/2 inch lower than the nostrils or atleast the first wholes behind the nostrils and you can see this. Each plug is about the size of a Watchface.
Does anybopdy Else have these on there hood, or did the previous owner have something there? I thought that maybe it goes more directly into the air box if the plugs are removed, or so i thought i was pretty unsure. nothing seemed any different. I also thought that they went wider then the Air box and that by removing them there would be added turbulance under the hood.
Can some1 tell me what they are for, why they are/were there, and if they have them as well and what could happen if removed?
I was washing my car today, cleaning the engine bay, and was wiping down the underside of the hood. I found 4 circles to the back of the Ram air nostrils, filled with thesse push-in pop-out "PLUGS". There are 4 of them. I popped all of them out thinking mayb it would be extra air coming in through the hood, and it seems possbile, but there is NOT a direct flow through. These wholes are about 1/4-1/2 inch lower than the nostrils or atleast the first wholes behind the nostrils and you can see this. Each plug is about the size of a Watchface.
Does anybopdy Else have these on there hood, or did the previous owner have something there? I thought that maybe it goes more directly into the air box if the plugs are removed, or so i thought i was pretty unsure. nothing seemed any different. I also thought that they went wider then the Air box and that by removing them there would be added turbulance under the hood.
Can some1 tell me what they are for, why they are/were there, and if they have them as well and what could happen if removed?
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There are the plugs, if you open your hood and look behind the nostrils theres almost like a black box there-there are 4 holes that i found these plugs in-i was hoping someone knows what they are for and if they could hurt anything if removed. When I removed them i started my car-after washing it- and it idles at 1000 RPMS or a HAIR over it and sat there for a lil bit but then lowered to about 800
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you dont have a larger pic do u ? cant really see it too well. if its on the back side, and there are 4 holes and not one big opening its not the ws6 hood. thats what it sounds like but if u take a better pic thats further back i can better tell
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Well i don't have a digital camera anymore-so im **** outa luck-and the car is a WS6 the previous owner only had the car fror 14,000 miles and he didnt do anything to it-so it is the stock WS6 hood. Could some1 else loo behind the nostrils and tell me if they have them or wholes or whatever.
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Originally Posted by Phoenix57
ill look tomorrow
Wehn looking through the nostrils theres 1 whole in each one- and behind it theres blackness and a small air inlet. with these pliugs removed you can see both of the other wholes and they are lower and allow you can see both of them very easily.
I thought also mayb they tried making a more effective ram air-but it looks to clean to be done byb anyone-looks factory almost so i thought kind of weird i guess
i think you may be talking about the baffles in the hood, mine are cut out of the inside part, but only thing i can think of is someone drilled a hole in the baffles, its not like that stock
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They are baffles- and well the holes do line up w/ the air box... my car has had the plugs in for a while so i don't know if i should take them out or not. What do you guys think is it worth it even with my SLP CAI?