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Originally Posted by elhigh
Ah, well. Ford did it on some of their old Falcon stock cars and it seemed to work well for them - it looked like a car with four headlights, but two of the "lights" were just big holes ducted back to the carbs.
I guess there just isn't enough dynamic effect at the kind of speeds we mere mortals have to drive.
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It WOULD have somewhat of an effect at the speeds of race cars purely because they are going 150mph+ in most cases. You have to think though, superchargers spin at speeds approaching 15k-20k RPMs, with that kind of rotation, you get a lot more air then just forcing it in with what you're talking about which is essentially a "ram air" system where the air is being forced in because of your speed.
You're right, at normal, "mortal" speeds you will likely not see any improvement, you may see something at 80+ which is still pretty average (around where I live) for most people to be traveling on the freeway, but no one here is "normal" in that respect I don't believe.