Yep, effectively, the blast of air into the scoop rises with speed and will completely miss the entry of the hood scoop above certain speeds with certain models.

Sounds like the real winner would be a hood scoop extension to put the inlet of the scoop right up front by the grille - then you have the best of both worlds with the throttle response of a TMIC but the steady supply of air like a FMIC. It would look really, really stupid though.

 

Ahhh Thanks for the info. I would like to see said info. I wonder what year scoop works best.

 

+1
I would be interested to see the results of the different years hood scoops.
Makes me wonder how the engine does when driving 75+ on the freeway for extended periods of time.

 

08+ have a more efficient hood scoop design!

 

Fmic all the things

 

start selling your lug nuts

 

Where is DarkOnion?

 

20 dolla I'm sold!

 

He's been trolled away.

 

You guys really like to back to back butt bang each other posts don't you two.

 

These threads you make are the most useless crap on the Internet. Also selling crap and expect people to pay you actual money, lol priceless

 

This was a well documented problem on the bugeyes. The shape of the front of the hood moves the path of air over the scoop. This is the reason the scoop on the +04s was made larger.