I'm with Jeremiah on this one. Lessening engine compartment temps does help, but that is "heat extraction" and exactly how Dodge referred to it with the scoop on the Charger SRT8...which essentially dumps air exactly over the exhaust manifolds like the Challenger. Hood scoops when referred to as "functional" have always meant "ram air" effect, whether on an Olds, Ponitac, Mopar or others. Only now, do we seem to be "expanding" the definition.
Don't get me wrong, hell, I'm glad they're not just blocked off or dummy plates in this day and age. But you have to admit, when we all saw the original concept w/ scoops and butterfly valve openings, NONE of us was thinking heat extraction....
