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People love to harp on "hot air intakes" if you post a pic of one. I really don't think its as huge a deal as some people make it out to be. I personally am a fan of an air box that get feed from an outside source like the factory intake. Often the complex route to get the filter into cold air makes it counter productive. Id rather have a hot air intake then a cold water intake.
Like it was mentioned before there are plenty of very high end very high hp cars that have the filter right in the engine bay so it cant be that bad.
How and where the car is used also needs to be considered. Race cars are always moving at high speeds with air flowing in and around the engine bay. A street car spends time heat soaking while waiting in traffic and even when they get going its not that fast on a normal road. I didn't go over 45mph on my commute this morning.
Im sure someone will post a dyno chart of some car with a short ram vs cold air but thats on a dyno not real world use.
And thats my morning coffee .02 for the day
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