[ATaylorRacing]

I had a 98 Neon 5 speed that I drag raced....I put just over 147,000 miles on it and te very first mod was to get rid of the entire air filter system and put a fine wire mesh screen over the throttle body opening. That mod picked up very nearly 2 mpg and the car ran from .20-.23 of a second quicker in the 1/4 mile. I had the same mod on a 3.0 Sundance for over 100,000 miles with the same results. No troubles with this method, but I would not do it in a desert or dusty enviroment. K & Ns never werebeter for me and sometimes were the same as stock. I eventually was getting 46 mpg in that Neon with EOC and 41 without it...which was the EPA rating. The car had 180 hp on motor and 305 hp with NOS in use.....for you gear heads it ran 14.8 in the 1/4 on motor and 12.17 at 117 mph was its best time with NOS. In front wheel drve cars I have 33 NHRA & IHRA drag race championships and 1 IHRA championship with a rear wheel drive vehicle.
I used that Neon to win Car & Driver magazine's 50th anniversary drag race.....they had limited it to 500 entries!