Originally Posted by
onehundred80
Without those inlets the only cooling inside the engine compartment would be hot air coming from the radiator. To aid in cooling the engine compartment area these inlets would allow some, but not much cooler air into the engine area. Better than hot air and better than nothing. The flaps would prevent air escaping too much and going up and into the intake manifold inlets when stationary.
Well that's my theory anyway.
Dave, I think this is the only possible use for those things.
Unless Mercedes had a barn full of them from some earlier project and dumped them into the mechanical design to bump up the cost of the Crossfire. "Look at how High-Tech this design is. We even have these little flaps at the front to reduce...blah...blah...blah."
Nah-that couldn't happen.
