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guys in the car audio section they already have this thread (y)
Are they your port holes? Seriously remove those things now. You are restricting the air going through them and totally changing the port characteristics.
yer they are, but it's the same size i have half going out the side like normal and the rest plumbed to the front so there isnt any restriction