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Old 05-05-2013, 05:00 PM   #48 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bandit86 View Post
The other thing I'm thinking of, why not route the air intake to behind the rad where the tranny oil cooler is? The steady flow of air would cool the rad so it stays cooler, you also get a warm air intake which diesels supposed to love
Diesels do not love warm air. The only time you will want to run a warmed air intake is some where around -5'C to +5'C. It all depends on compression ration and if you are DI or IDI.
Even then I think gains would be too small to justify having to switch back and forth between Ram air/CAI and WAI.

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