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AaronM AaronM is offline
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Pure ram-air does not have any meaningful affect until you get above about 75 mph (~120 kph). At legal speeds it's really not going to do anything.

Now, getting cooler air from outside the engine compartment can make a measurable improvement at all speeds, but whether this is noticeable is debatable. The general rule is that there needs to be at least a 10% increase in power before there are measurable changes in a car's performance. Going from, say, 160 hp to 170 hp really won't make much of a difference at all in the everyday world (on a track it might be good for a tenth, which can be important, but on a street car it's really pretty pointless).

As a practical matter for a street car, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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