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Old 10-01-2016, 05:51 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Generally what happens when you have a scoop with no rear outlet, is that it becomes a high pressure zone and air flows around it. You expend the energy necessary to maintain that high pressure zone, but it may or may not be more than the energy needed to create the turbulence you'd get behind the bumper by allowing the air through.
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