Hi Billy!
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Hi Billy!
Obviously you won't gain power as running the AC will drain more power than you gain. However, if you live in a very hot environment, and most always have the AC on anyway, you would gain back a little of the power that you lose due to the AC. If you want to gain as much power as possible, you would not only not run the AC, but also remove it to gain weight.
But you want AC like the rest of us, so why not gain a little of the power back and feed interior air instead of engine compartment air? I would imagine that it could easily be as high as a 40 degree difference. If ambient air is 90, interior air cooled to 70, and engine compartment air is a hot 110. That's doing the work of an intercooler my freind, so why not? You also may be able to save a few bucks at the gas station as you won't have a problem with engine knock, so you may be able to run a lower octane fuel.
I would run a pre-filter at the intake end to keep out the big stuff. You probably would want to disconnect it during the cold season if you have one. I don't know how much gain you would have, but it is interesting. Too bad dyno-ing is so expensive, or you could actually measure the difference. Butt dyno is going to feel faster, but I think that would be more due to the increased noise. I don't think I could handle the sucking intake noise. It could be accomplished easy enough and you could always reroute it if you didn't care for it once completed.
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