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Originally Posted by t vago
One could make much the same argument for using engine coolant for heating intake air - with the added proviso that the intake air being sucked in is also sucking the heat out of the coolant that the engine would need to warm up to operating temperature, thereby lengthening engine warmup times.
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Coolant is the oem solution but only because its there in front, it makes far more sense to suck off the cat, that gets warm after only 90 seconds and hot after a few minutes.
Insight drivers find the cat gets them a real increase in the intake air temperature and best of all its almost free.