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Is there any value in letting that high pressure bleed off into the engine compartment? ...effectively reducing some of the high pressure areas at the front grill...[/QUOTE
Ultimately, the high pressure at the stagnation point is matched by a low pressure area at the rear. How one gets from the one to the other determines the drag. IOW the high pressure is a feature not a benefit.
All air into the engine compartment should go though the radiator. Outflow can be between the frame rails or through the inner wheel well.
Air curtains can be beneficial, but the 2022 Dodge seems to have none so you'd be on you own. I think Ford has a horizontal slot feeding a vertical one.
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Thanks... one of the thoughts was to push the air out the back in a controlled direction... but thats at the other end of the truck. The 2005 I have, it has a piece on the fender that is intended to be a wheel liner retention of some sort, the thinking was to slot that and feed air into it to create that air curtain as much as possible. I realize there is a lot of work to get that one pulled off and the benefit is an unknown.