When I had the MINI I removed what is deemed the "noise maker"
Goes from the intake to the firewall. It's ONLY purpose is to pipe noise to the driver.
It is everything from number 11 to 17 below:
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/diagrams/h/r/234.png
:dumb:
Someone cut the big noisemaker part open and it was just a big bellow (that didnt push down)... Supposedly just vibrates like a big ear drum to amplify noises to the cabin.
http://www.northamericanmotoring.com/gallery/data/500/medium/100_1035.JPG
Boggles my mind that they went ahead and put the engineering and time/money into something like this. A speaker is just a step TOO FAR