Say, a Lamborghini murcielago for example. With front engine cars, the air comes through the front of the car through the grill right?So with a rear engine car, how does air get to the intake manifold?
They have air intakes on the side or on the engine cover
People will say no, but years of riding and plugging tires of my own , I have never had a problem. I would never plug a front tire, but a rear, if it has good tread, then sure, as long as its close to center of the tire. The preferred way would be to patch it though, but if its a plug, it will hold also.
if the tire is tubeless, which im assuming it is, then yes u can get it repaired as long as you have it patch plugged from the inside. DO NOT just have it plugged from the out side. The bill will be a lot worse later if you do. If it's tube type just get a new tube installed
Most front engined vehicles get the air from the grill. Many mid and rear engined cars would have grills near the rear wheels to funnel the air to the throttle body before eventually ending up in the intake manifold.
Air is available from all directions. Air pressure is nearly the same in all directions, it only increases very slightly for air fed from ducts facing directly forward (a.k.a. RAM AIR or Cold Air Induction). To put in simpler terms, no it is not the case that front engine cars intake air exclusively from the front grill. Practically no cars do so actually. If you want to install aftermarket Cold Air Induction or buy a car with a Ram Air option, then it may have an intake either through a hood scoop, or from air ducts around the headlights. For pure race applications, headlights may be removed and replaced with ram air intakes. The thing about it is ram air induction doesn't really help that dramatically, and works VERY BADLY in RAIN or SNOWY weather conditions or especially driving on a DUSTY DIRT ROAD, so even the cars with Ram Air usually have a switch to turn it off so you don't suck rain or other crud directly into the intake in the bad weather. Most cars suck air from some random place in the engine compartment, a bit to the front or side of the engine, blocked from weather effects. If you ever change your own air filter, you can look at where the intake is coming from. So with that in mind, the scoops on the side of the Lamborghini are for show, and for most conditions air intake should be indirect from engine compartment with some baffling / underskirt to prevent pulling in rain, road dirt/dust.
