Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Inhale
Once you understand an internal combustion engine you soon realize that it is actually not very efficient due both to its design and to manufactures trying to make them as quite and smooth as possible. If you can improve the efficiency of the engine you will both increase the horsepower and also increase the gas mileage. The first place I like to start is with the intake if you can remove some of the restrictions placed on the intake by the factory you can easily increase the efficiency of the motor. There are two common ways to reduce the intake restriction of a modern fuel injected vehicle. The first is by simply replacing the air filter with a filter that is less restrictive than the factory paper filter. There are several different filters to choose from such as K&N or Fram Airhog, I personally prefer the K&N because it has given me the best results in my test and they have a filter for almost every application including motorcycles. If you want a larger increase in fuel mileage and performance you can go with a full aftermarket intake for your vehicle. These intakes usually cost several hundred dollars and can be installed in your garage with simple hand tools in most cases. Fram and K&N both make full intake kits that can offer an increase of several MPG in most cases and they wont void your warranty. These intakes claim to be 50 state emissions legal and most of them are safe even for California but if you have any doubt please contact your local mechanic to make sure. Either way these two simple modifications to your vehicle will allow you to squeeze a few more miles out of every gallon.
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