I found this in the 2/2004 issue of Power Pages put out by the editors of Import Tuner. It's a really good read about the claims that manufactures make about performance gains their products will give. I scanned these from the magazine so I apologize if the quality isn't the best. Also, this didn't really fit in one single forum so I put it here. If someone can suggest a better forum for it, let me know and I'll move it.
Thanks Eric. That was a good article. I tend to take pretty much anything with a grain or two of salt. When I was in school a couple of hundred years ago, I had to take 11 hrs. of statistics. I actually found it to be pretty interesting. I remember being amazed and fascinated about how many ways results could be manipulated and interpreted.
____________________ If you can't read this, you're illiterate.
Please Please Please tell me that you knew about this before you read this article?
I mean the article is good, don't get me wrong.. but its a day late and a dollar short. Ever knowledgeable person should already know that its all advertisement.. Nothing can dramatically improve hp unless you boost...
******** These are my fav. people....
Guy with a focus.. stock its 130hp..
Puts on an intake (15hp), exhaust (20Hp) and short shifter(5hp) **((this is all what the companies told him))**
It's no so much a "hey, look at this. These guys are saying that manufactorers are lying to us." It's more a tool to understand WHY you can't trust 100% of what they say to be correct all the time. If you actually read the article you would understand that.
