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      12-07-2015, 10:00 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by vstolpner View Post
Does that do anything for performance or sound?

I don't imagine the designers would have introduced a flap unnecessarily...
Your car will be slightly louder on startup and at part throttle. Still very quiet overall though. You won't even really notice it driving around , but you'll notice it on startup.

There are literally eleven thousand videos of it on youtube. Extremely common "mod".
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