found on eBay, why am I bothering with my B6T swap?

[Rick the Quick]

So obviously, 10 Turbonators installed in line would yield an additional 70 - 100 HP. Amazing that the big car manufacturers have not discovered this yet.

The big car manufacturers have known about these for years. My uncle bought a new Chevy 1 ton dually and when he got it home he discovered it actually had a Ford 460 in it. They actually painted it orange to disguise it. That truck easily got over 100mpg. Next thing you know Chevy calls him and tries to buy it back. They offered him another 1 ton dually and a new Corvette but he refused their offer. Shortly after he gets a call from Exxon. They offered him a bunch of money and free gas for life for the truck. Again he refused to sell it. It seems that the word got out that he had a prototype truck with the experimental 100 mpg carburetor. One day a mechanic at the local Texaco station found a mysterious turbine looking device inside the air cleaner housing. He took pictures of the device so he could make one of his own. I guess Chevrolet and Exxon really wanted the truck back because about a month later it dissapeared from his driveway. In broad daylight no less. As for Joe the Texaco mechanic, he also mysteriously vanished. Nobody knows where he is. He just vanished leaving his trophy wife and muscle car collection to gather dust. It just goes to show that anytime someone comes out with an innovative fuel saving, performance enhancing design they suffer an ill fated ending. A coincidence? You decide.



April Fools.......a few days late.

[likeJIF]

HAHAHA, great thread, my stomach hurts :-p

[TominMO]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbGWgvJN1_8 too funny

MCM is a great Youtube channel. I watched all the episodes of them sticking a Honda motor into an original Mini.

[TominMO]

MCM: Cold Air Intakes Mythbusted.

This is assuming you have an efficient stock airbox. I used to have a Subaru Loyale, which seemed to lose power above about 4K RPM. Drilled a couple dozen holes in the lower airbox piece, got lots better power above 4K. When I looked at the air intake to the airbox, it was just a very small tube going into the fender. Much smaller than the exit hole going from the airbox to the motor. So at higher RPM it was just not getting enough air to breathe well. Poor design, no doubt for limiting noise, at the sacrifice of power. But realistically, how many Loyale owners are revving their motors?

IMO, any stock flat air filter will have more than enough surface area to flow more air than the intake tube to the motor can use, at least on a NA motor. The only worthwhile thing to do is drill holes in the lower airbox piece, in case you have an inefficient airbox.

Note that the above test was done on a turbo car, so a lot more air being taken in, but still no gains.

Pod filters mythbusted. Stock factory setup actually did the same or better. Aftermarket panel filters, same deal.