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Old 09-24-2013, 12:09 AM   #129 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Xist View Post
You might be able to claim that it would reduce the PPM, only because you would be inflating the airflow, but the energy required would actually increase the pollution.
What the AIR or SAI system actually does is provide two things - more oxygen [by proxy] for a better chance of more gasses reacting in the catalytic converter, and a hotter 'burn' environment, which does the same thing, by the same means.

I guess it's really one thing... in two ways. Or something.
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