i agree with kooldawg. however, i would like to add my opinion on the "looks" portion of it. dont do it, please.
Do enough google searching and I'm sure you'll find them. They are in a lot of people's opinions very tacky however.
I saw some guy who'd put three of them, up high on the fender ..... I said "WTF?!" All I could think of was a f'n Buick ... idiots,
If you're going to do something dumb like that, at least put the right amount on. 3 on each side for V6, 4 on each side for V8.
JC Whitney, Pep-Boys, Wal-Mart, Murrays, Autozone, basically any place that has a "ugly ricer **** to stick to my car" isle. If you put those on a Mustang I will personally find you and repossess your car.
is that why buick did it? I don't know the history of the company, but that idea makes sense to me, although i've never thought about a reasoning behind how many are on there. only newer car that should have the side vents on it imo. thats if they ever make it. edit, a little information i found on the side vents, thought it was interesting. A traditional Buick styling cue dating to 1949 is a series of three or four portholes or vents on the front fender behind the front wheels. The source of this design feature was a custom car (one not made by Buick, but personal car of stylist Ned Nickles), which in addition had a flashing light within each hole, each synchronized with a specific spark plug simulating the flames from the exhaust stack of a fighter airplane. Combined with the bombsight mascot (introduced in the 1940s), the ventiports put the driver at the controls of an imaginary fighter airplane. The flashing light feature was not used by Buick in production, but the portholes remained as nonfunctional ornamentation. These were originally called "Ventiports" as they did allow air flow into the engine bay (later just "portholes"). Ventiports have appeared sporadically on several models since. Lower cost models were equipped with three portholes, while higher cost models came with four. Often, people would denote their cars as "Four-Holers" or "Three-Holers" to assert the car's class. When the number of portholes was standardized across the entire model line, buyers of the higher cost models complained bitterly that they felt shortchanged. In 2003 they were re-introduced on the Buick Park Avenue. After the Park Avenue was discontinued, Buick salvaged the portholes to appear on the new Lucerne. In a break with tradition, the Lucerne's portholes refer directly to engine configuration: V6 models have three on each side, while V8s have four on each side.
