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At low speeds there is no airflow restriction. As I said, the increased noise makes people think there is a change. Put the car on a dyno with and without any air filter system at all and there is no significant change in the torque/power curve or an increase in power.
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Spool
time has nothing with power/torque
output AFAIK.
Agree that there would be no change on a dyno, but rather the overall everyday driveability
might be improved.
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Originally Posted by ForcedInduction
Reasons being what? Almost every semi on the road, all 95 million of them and their 10L+ engines, use road draft tubes. Better go do something about them. There is nothing wrong at all with road draft tubes.
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Hopefully their diesels have less blowby than ours, to say the least.
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It does. Mist is little droplets of fluid hitting the blades. It will cause more wear than if the turbo only got pure air.
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Great point, all the more reason to get that s**t out of there.
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Thanks for the responses and link, will check it out.