Posted: Aug 16 2006 at 5:33pm | IP Logged

Technically yes and no.

Cars back into the late 80s actually put the intake horn through the fender at some point.  It sucks air, but not really cold.  It was designed more for when sitting at idle, as the temp inside the fender was cooler than the engine bay.  But it can hurt, when driving down the road doing 55, the air inside the engine bay is actually colder than the fender, plus the horn doesn't get a change to pull that colder moving air. 

If you're talking about the rubber connector in the middle of that pipe, it's a flex section.  Without that, when you floored the gas, the motor would tilt to one side or another, and break the plastic intake, or maybe even bolts. There for a reason, and doesn't actually create too much drag.  The stupid tornado would cause more drag than that flex section would.

Posted: Aug 16 2006 at 8:49pm | IP Logged

Man, I forgot you even did that. 

If you want to modify it, replace the intake, and box with a equal size mandrel tubing all the way to the fender, and put a cone filter inside the fenderwell.  Don't forget to make holes where needed for the sensors.