What was your point, wicky?

 

my point was in my pants the whole time, officer.....

 

okay, just listened to that. It sounds really sweet. I'm just dreading having to take something apart for smog.

 

It will be interesting if it makes a serious dent on the dyno. Of course, as some of the other folks said, he's made some major mods beyond the ITB itself.

Sweet.

 

well, it will be difficult for us to tell, but several folks in the tuning world whom I respect have said it is possible to gain 20 to 30 or more with the ITB.... 50 seems way out there but the other guy with the custom ITB posted today a graph in UTH and sure enough 50 hp at 5000, but peak looked closer to the 20 to 30 mark. at any rate, a substantial NA gain. for similar money I can gain over 115 whp with the supercharger

 

but it won't sound as cool.... and won't have the same spirit....

 

Well... I've always felt that if you want the big HP gains, you have to supercharge. With the extra stroke in the '04, I'll bet you could do some amazing stuff with supercharging (if you can avoid blowing out the piston rings!

 

I don't know much about the rings on the f20c, but I haven't heard a thing about them blowing..... no news is good news...

gotta run for a bit!

 

There've been a few supercharged engines that've melted down. It's the nature of the beast if you force too much in. I've heard some of my girlfriends complain about this.