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Old 03-23-2008, 02:44 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
If you are willing to trash your car, you might squeeze 1-2 MPG out of it, but don't kid yourself you can make the engine run any better than the factory engineers can.
Vehicles we buy have one big compromise: Mass Production.

To that end, consistency for the average driver and cost reduction measures are generally utilized to pull a profit and ease the manufacturing process (plus extra horsepower we don't need).

EcoModders take this compromise and fill the gap. We can specialize our vehicles for how we intend on using them. So on the opposite end, to squeeze a few more seconds out of the quarter mile, people kid themselves that they can make the engine run better?

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