Worthless power adders?

My search for a new exaust has lead me back to sites such as JC whitney, ect. In the proces I re-discovered all the wonderfull "performance" parts that promise up to 20 extra HP and improved milage.

T.B. spacers with "vortex", cold air intakes(K&N fip-k,AEM, APCshuders), exausts(mufflers, comlpeat cat-backs, headers), verying degrees of computers and ignition componets

The point I'm trying to get at is what is crap? What is worthwile? How to mix and match these for the best effect? And what would you see in real world power gains?

This also brings up the issue of what class you would run in in sanctioned racing.

BTW, about 2 years ago the JCW sport comp catalog had a "turbo" that ran off an electric motor. It even had a warning about not running it for more than 30 minets. Anyone know about this and if you can still find them?

is JC whitney the automotive Nostradamus

http://www.turbos.bwauto.com/files/library/bwts_library_138_325.pdf

electric turbo...

Power gains would be 0 to 5%.

That's not for the turbo although it would probably be the same.

I think all of them together don't make nearly the power as a good handful of stickers.

GRM stickers add 10hp!

MGAMGB wrote: Just google "bilge blower".

Sounds like a couple of lonely sailors.

Magnets that align the fuel for better combustion. I didn't get the 50 rwhp I was looking for...

You think those things are funny, lookadis http://pesn.com/2005/03/08/6900067_RamWingUpdate/

carguy123 wrote: You think those things are funny, lookadis http://pesn.com/2005/03/08/6900067_RamWingUpdate/

That's awesome! It generates thrust by moving through the air! So you could throw it, and it would just speed up! ZOMG!

Studded...for her pleasure.

Anyone else find it ironic that they're slapping an ostensibly "aero" mod onto a ski rack?

^^^WTF, are people making their own?

neon4891 wrote: ^^^WTF, are people making their own?

Yeah . . . but the question is what?

carguy123 wrote:

neon4891 wrote: ^^^WTF, are people making their own?

Yeah . . . but the question is what?

Romulan Warbird

Suckerbird is more like it...

now that you say that, i want to build one and deck it outlike a federation starship, otoh, it is more like an Orai ship from SG1

Trade Federation Destroyer from Episode I ?

See there is some valid science behind this thing. It's so good that the Starships use it.

Maybe he was captured by little green men who took him aboard their starship and probed him. In return they gave him the design for this wing and the formula for perpetual motion.

ignorant wrote: is JC whitney the automotive Nostradamus http://www.turbos.bwauto.com/files/library/bwts_library_138_325.pdf electric turbo...

If it's directly driven, isn't it a supercharger?

Are you all too young to remember the "passive supercharger" sold by JC Whitney? It was a set of pinwheels that you munted under the carburetor.

The latest one I keep seeing, and getting asked about by people who should know better, is the plasma catalytic converter. Where your gasoline is magically converted to a plasma in this replacement catalytic converter. All without melting your rubber fuel lines.

ReverendDexter wrote:

ignorant wrote: is JC whitney the automotive Nostradamus http://www.turbos.bwauto.com/files/library/bwts_library_138_325.pdf electric turbo...

If it's directly driven, isn't it a supercharger?

yes and no...

the final concept is to use the electric motor to overcome lag.

spin it up with electricity, then disconnect and let the engine drive it.

I wonder if that wing thing gets sat tv??