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Small update. We have had some cold weather here the past couple of days with 30degree days. Using my scangauge I'm seeing that my intake temps do not change as I drive. I make note of the temp when I start the car just to see how cold it is out, and have noticed that it stays there, or, if I'm lucky, it will go up 2 degrees. I'm thinking this is going to hurt my MPG all winter long and am trying to think of a way to warm up the air. The Duratec has the intake at the front of the car and exhaust close to the firewall; this might not be an issue except that all the emissions and PZEV "junk" is occupying the space that I would use to wrap a snorkel around the engine and pull hot air off the exhaust manifold. Many Focus owners have noted warmer intake temps and unconfirmed MPG gains from using a short ram intake with cone filter; I'm thinking about testing the "redneck" short ram but first I need to get a MAF tube off another Focus to hack up.

In other news, I plan on removing the roof rack side rails over Thanksgiving weekend, so hopefully that will cancel out what losses I might be seeing from winter temps...