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      08-25-2011, 11:17 AM   #8
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makes sense, if it was super hot and humid that day, the GT2 could lose considerable hp and performance.

heat and elevation (colorado or long island?) will be in play with Turbo cars. In general anytime air intake variables that effect volume and temperature change it will have a greater effect on turbo cars than NA cars, simply b/c the idea of turbo cars, to suck in more air and add more fuel to create higher hp, uses much more air than NA cars.

Also,high temperature will also effect the intercooler's core temperatures and cause the temperature of the air intake at the throttle to be higher than preferred, though the use of intercooler is still preferred in that case. I'm not quite sure when the heat soak will come in effect and be counter-productive to the alternative of not having a intercooler.
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