One problem with the harvesting turbine on intake would be a drop in intake air temp.
If you draw a vacuum the temperature drops. Some of the heat loss is overcome by the friction, but if you take that away with a turbine then the air temp would drop more - quite some in fact. This may reduce the combustion efficiency.
Would be good combined with a WAI though 
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