Thinking about removing the weather strip in hopes of more air flow?

 

The stock air intake hole was actually next to the driver side headlamp. Why would u want to improve the airflow for?

 

Would like to try and cool down the engine compartment

 

Was hoping someone with some experience with this would advise as to any posative or negative results of doing this. Aerodynamics, additional water from rain, if youblow a radiator hose it will blow on your windshield. I am running the stock air filter, but removed the snorkel. I also took a dremel tool and opened up the passanger side to match the opening on the driver side where the snorkel was just trying to get more circulation of air around the engine and turbo r56 2007 just don't want to mess up what the engineers at mini where trying to achieve. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

 

The base of the windshield is a high pressure area when the car is moving. Chances are all you'd succeed in doing is getting a very dirty engine bay. Why do you need to cool down the engine bay?

 

I noticed a lot of the after market intakes use the engine compartment air as opposed to the fresh cool air supplied by the factory snorkel, so I removed just snorkel hopeing to get air to the intake with out going thru the snorkel, knowing the temperature will be higher and maybe loosing any high pressure pushing air into the snorkel. I am hoping that by eliminating all the bends and friction the trade off would be worth it. Open to any thoughts.

 

Side effects, how about a filthy (wet) engine bay full of dirt and dust. I just replaced both rubber seals for the engine bay, got tired of having a filthy engine bay. The car wash put water spots all over my engine bay, not pretty!

 

Okay so other than water and dust does anyone have any other ideas. Car sets in the garage with a cover on it 6 days out of the week.

 

I am confused. You are looking to cool down the intake air or the engine comparment air?

If you are looking to cool down the intake air, buy a cold air intake kit. I got mine used from a member here and it sucks air in directly from the hood scoop and stays isolated from the engine compartment air.

If you are looking to cool down the engine compartment, why? The vehicle was designed by engineers with specific airflow patterns throughout the engine bay to maximize cooling where it is needed.

And +1 on only succeeding in a filthy, wet engine bay. Leave the brain work up to the MINI engineers. My MCS has 133k+ miles on it and no heat damage to even a label or plastic tidbit in the engine compartment.

 

Thanks for the response, that is kinda what I was thinking, if it's not broken, don't fix it. Thanks for your help.

 

Think I might put the snorkel back in. I just took it out because I thought I was going to move my oil catch can.