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Old 04-17-2008, 02:28 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by apgrok1 View Post
Ok we know all of the things that can go wrong, but we still don't know why it is there. I know that GM Quad 4's had cold start emmision problems, I am assuming this could also apply to the volvo's. The hot air intake would help emmisions in that case.
? See a few posts up....

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The air flap mechanism in the volvo airbox works to maintain a minimum 70f intake temp in order to make the AMM readings more accurate.

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