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Originally Posted by Big time
What do you guys think about placing the engine air intake on the roof?
There you get both a high pressure zone and the engine sucks the boundary layer reducing flow separation.
Formula 1 and other sport and race cars place their intakes high up.
Maybe you'll need a roof-wide shallow intake?
Of course you'll need lengthy hoses.
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The lowest pressure on a car is just ahead of the windshield header and placing an inlet for a front-engined car on the roof would cause a scavenging effect causing the pistons to work against a vacuum rather than atmospheric pressure.