We were talking about hooking the intakes straight to the vents I dont know if I am confused or if you are confused IT was on your orginal thread I was saying you could take a set up like the SL intakes take the tubes that go behind the grille and send them right up to the vents. in other words when you pop you hood you see two large openings going straight up and down and either come off the top of the modified air boxes or connect to the tube hook up location off of the front of the air boxes. Either way you would have to wide openings feeding air to the intakes directly. You are going from parallel to verticle a heavy rain would no questions asked make for a bad day possible water lock