It's not the turbo you are cooling. It's the compressed air that the turbo has compressed to force into the engine. Cool air = horse power. if it cant cool the air, your manifold air temp goes up. Then the engine has to make adjustments on fuel and timing to adjust for higher manifold air temp. whenever it makes these adjustments you will feel a horsepower loss. If it gets too hot, your engine could experience detonation. Bad stuff.I would definitely be concerned about covering such a critical cooling "port"
On the other hand, intercooling of turbos is used to get more power and uncooled turbos have run for years. But it depends on where the turbo is located. If you block the air be prepared to lose maybe 15,20% off the top, maybe more. You could always remove the turbo and reprogram the chip, but running it hotter will do much of the same.
I would rather block the front camera, which is why no winch is compatible with lux
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