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VeloxEric
The more I think about it, the more I like your design because I feel it still maintains the hood's crumple zones. Unlike another vent design that I have seen, I don't feel like there may be a giant metal rod heading for my face in case of a frontal impact.
To maintain your goals of not touching the hoods structure as mentioned in one of your posts...
How about designing a smaller vent, about half length of the current one, and make it more rectangular.
Yes functionality would be probably be reduced, but I would be interested as it could make the design look a bit cooler.
See badly photoshoped images below.