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    Quote Originally Posted by pingu
    "8 square with a rounded bottom inserts into the intake passages"

    Do you mean the fuel injectors? If not, have you got a photo?

    I've head about these before... iirc they were an E39 feature...

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    I am curious about the little do dongles inside the m60 intake manifold. While doing my intake gaskets, pcv plate, and throttle body gasket i noticed there are 8 square with a rounded bottom inserts into the intake passages. i took all of them out after i screwed up and knocked one loose. decided it was a waste of time to try and get it back in (after 20 min of screwing with them) i have a couple spare intake manifolds in my parts collection. i decided to take a couple pcv plates off and do some research. 4 of 6 had them completely taken out and 3 of 6 had the top styrofoam plate removed. these intakes are from a variety of m60 3.0 and 4.0 liter m60's of various maintenance. i noticed a significant difference in the way the car drove after the maintenance and "mod". what drawbacks can be expected from removing these intake directors. are they simply a way of limiting power?

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    "8 square with a rounded bottom inserts into the intake passages"

    Do you mean the fuel injectors? If not, have you got a photo?

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    I've had my intake all apart a couple of times and I don't remember anything like that described. Or, I just don't understand.

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    mine has the intake "BUGLES" one was floating around in there causing a miss. they perfectly match the intake venturis on my 530 to the intake venturi.
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    Does it look like this?





    Quote Originally Posted by chris_e34
    I am curious about the little do dongles inside the m60 intake manifold. While doing my intake gaskets, pcv plate, and throttle body gasket i noticed there are 8 square with a rounded bottom inserts into the intake passages. i took all of them out after i screwed up and knocked one loose. decided it was a waste of time to try and get it back in (after 20 min of screwing with them) i have a couple spare intake manifolds in my parts collection. i decided to take a couple pcv plates off and do some research. 4 of 6 had them completely taken out and 3 of 6 had the top styrofoam plate removed. these intakes are from a variety of m60 3.0 and 4.0 liter m60's of various maintenance. i noticed a significant difference in the way the car drove after the maintenance and "mod". what drawbacks can be expected from removing these intake directors. are they simply a way of limiting power?
    Ramon
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    the bottom circle shows where the individual inserts would go into, the top oval shows where the long styrofoam insert went. from the looks of it, it seems only a small portion of m60's had these inserts. i will try and get an actual photo of the inserts but it wont be until tomorrow as they are at the shop.
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    My 530i had the inserts you are referring to. I don't know what their purpose is so they stayed in . Not sure if my 540i has them or not. I haven't had the misfortune of pulling the intake manifold off yet.

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    My 540 didn't have any inserts when I had the intake manifold out.
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    My 540i intake didn't have any either (UK car)
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