These ripoff car mods are gimmicks. But there are other parts that DO work when they are used properly. Too many people throw parts at their cars to make them faster, but steps need to be followed.
Do you think you could talk more about your Isuzu that you started off with? I've been quite interested in that car ever since the first time I saw it, and I'm sure others would enjoy seeing a story regarding that car, as well as the others you had which weren't used in the films.
Making it feel and be under powered isn't practical and only having the power at higher revs wears the engine out if you want to use the power. A hack-job exhaust can actually reduce the car's power so don't cheap out on an exhaust unless you just want to make the car louder with no focus on increasing the power and/or driving experience. I thought about it with my daily to piss off annoying neighbours but it would've been a waste.
THIS. I remember being a dumb kid and thinking that my car was kicking ass because of a few mods that I had, but I had friends that were older and more experienced that help me understand parts and my car. Thank you for being this to so many enthusiasts throughout the years.
If he'd started with that, many would get offended and not finish the video. I think this is why he started the video with obvious points about electric blowers and such so the video would make people feel smart and they'd be more open to taking advice.
As an Audi S4 owner I approve of them as well. Bought Bosch plugs of supposedly the correct speck and had nothing but issues. Changed back to NGK's and good to go.
I remember the magic super chip they used to sell way back in the days, late 90's early 2000's. It was basically just a resistor in a nice package. I know some numbnuts that fell for the gimmick.
GREAT vid man! You just got a new sub. 7:00 quick story.. I went to UTI in '99 and part if it was 9 weeks of "Hot Rod U", where we basically got to play with different mods on cars and run them on the chassis dyno. Long story short - We put a $350 K&N cold air intake kit on a bone stock '95 Z28, and it LOST 13hp to the wheels. Put the stock airbox back on, and the power came right back. Keep up the great work! People NEED to hear about these things. Just curious... Have you seen all of the people on this site that are claiming that you don't need gasoline, and are just running their cars on the fumes? LMAO.. If you haven't, it's worth looking up!
I have a 2003 Tahoe Z71, 5.3. How many tiny women are in there? What’s the formula to convert horsepower to bitchpower? Could the presence of tiny women in the cylinders be the source of a steady whining?
There is a guy called Matt who has a channel called "The workshop" He is an engineer who goes over alot of these bogus mods and aftermarket products aswell as going into detail on how things work ect ect. He is also known to call out bullshit misinformation from other youtubers such as Mighty car mods and jason from Engineering explained. He's stuff also highly revolves around motorcycles but most of the stuff crosses over to us car guys His content is A+ if you really want to learn how shit works.
I love it. "Strait pipe is thee worst thing to do" Damn I wish everyone could read this. So many idiots are always on the internet saying "strait pipe it for all the power!" Like....no....just no
This is most of what I’ve tried to tell people for a very long time. Something advertised to make 10 h/p just might.... at 7500 rpm. Too bad your car peaks at 4500 rpm. And don’t buy a cold air kit if you really need ball joints and brakes.
Ironically split electrode spark plugs do exist still. Not necessarily power related but “full burn” advertised. I supposed if you’re basically filling your cylinders with methanol maybe that’s a thing.
Haaa, as a teenager I put splitfire plug in my 4 banger. Ran better since it needed a tune up anyway. But I bought into the marketing. Thanks for the throwback to the early 90's!
Duralube works bro i put it in my car and my brother knocked the oil pan out of it and drove it home 30 miles it didnt lock or overheat i fixed the oil pan and drove it till the trany went out
Straight piping a car, or removing the muffler, will not affect scavenging. Most if not all of exhaust scavenging occurs in the header primaries. By the time exhaust gases reach the muffler area, they have expanded and slowed down. If anything the lack of back pressure will always make more power. Its been proven over and over on the dyno and track. Of course, header primary design and pipe diamter should be correct for the application. We're talking soley for performance here
Tuning a ecu is much easier than old carburators that for sure, about the straight pipes agree 100% most ppl dont even drive or race with the engine at the rpms where such a exhaust would improve perfomance so they end losing power and get annoying with the amount of noise these exhaust make and they are 4 stroke engines so it aint going to improve that much anyways compared to the amount a exhaust improves a 2 stroke.
Finally someone else thank you so much for talking about the straight pipe exhaust. I myself work at a BMW tuning shop and I drive a BMW station wagon that has an incredibly quiet stainless steel exhaust. I also added extra valves to the exhaust that open a different pressures and RPMs to make the exhaust much more quiet. The valves are indeed mapped and tuned to the engine computer. The engine itself is cammed ported and higher compression Pistons. Not super killer race car but I'm very happy.
I love reading the reviews on the electric superchargers. There's a few 5 star reviews that all say the same generic "Wow! Love this thing! Works great!" and then the rest are all 1 stars talking about how they didn't notice any gains and there was even one I read were the cheap blades came apart and went into his engine. He had to replace the engine on a brand new GMC. Yeah have fun with that.
Back in the day I had ran splitfire plugs in my 3.1 sunbird and my lawn mower. Graig you forgotten to mention magnets on fuel lines they increase mpg. Also we can't forget about zmax if Carroll Shelby used it in his cars it has to work.
I'm from the cold intake generation Mounted deep in the engine bay close to the wheel-well. The only thing we were getting more of was water from puddles 🤣
About 15 years ago, an old friend of mine's GF bought a used Integra, with all of the usual "rice burner" mods, such as one of those intakes you described.. Long story short, about a month after she bought it, we replaced the longblock, because she went through a big puddle, and bent a rod. oops! lol
@@billymanilli You're going to bring up too many memories for me. Memories of cut springs, fart can exhaust, wood box subs, stickers and spoilers from AutoZone. 🤣🤣🤣
@@edd2184 lol "cut springs, fart can exhaust, wood box subs, stickers and spoilers from AutoZone".. hey! now you're doing it to me! lmao!! tbh, I was a "die hard" V8 guy back then, BUT I'm guilty of everything you listed! Some, were to "make fun" of those guys (had a few different beater Accords and a Civc.. They do make GREAT commuter cars), but I'm guilty of cutting a coil off to make my car "sit right", and certainly remember building some pretty cheap-o boxes.. I built one out of T1-11 for my truck when I was 19... smh lawl
@@billymanilli forget weight reduction my friend. Just remember turn off the AC you'll go a little faster 🤣. Can you imagine if telling us back in the day there will be cars coming out the factory 0 to 60 in 4 to 3 seconds and a Camry would have 301 horsepower. Man times have changed.
Just subscribed... Great vid! I'm 43 and just recently finished the 1st step in my 1st serious build. I'm the sorta guy who goes against the "meta". In my city of Louisville, KY most people are building Chargers, Mustangs, 370 Zs, WRX STIs and the occasional 5 & 3 series BMW. I decided to be stupid and build a MINI Cooper S Clubman. It's most definitely NOT what everyone is building. I discovered why that is about midway through the 1st part of my build... Adjustable Gecko coilovers, AEM cold air/ram air intake, Ignition Projects coils, Forge intercooler, AEM water/methanol injection kit, 100% Forge hose/pipe replacement, 380cc MM high flow injectors, 41mm BorgWarner Airwerks SX K03 dual scroll turbo & upgraded feed line , turbo line replacement kit with NM Engineering SS Braided line, Clutch Masters FX400 Racing clutch/light weight flywheel kit, Craven Speed on-the-fly adjustable short throw shifter, Magnaflow full race catless exhaust and an aggressive stage 3 tune from Malone Tuning. I've also gutted everything that I don't need on the interior and replaced my seats with some cheap Recaros. Before the upgraded turbo when I was just running a full bolt-on set up I was pushing 20lbs of boost with the stock turbo... The difference the first Malone tune that abled me to push that boost was freaking incredible! Driving my car home after that 1st tune was an insane reality check for me. I knew that a good tune could deliver performance, but in my mind great performance from a tune only existed in expensive builds that replaced internals. I never imagined that I could experience such a great power gain with only decent bolt-ons from a tune, but there I was experiencing it! After the bigger turbo I had to decrease my boost from 20lbs to 15lbs to avoid over boost. Despite less boost, my air was more compressed and the change was drastic. So drastic that I had to completely switch from Cinturato P7s to P Zero Corsas so I could get traction up front. 0-60 runs are a decent mid 4s... 60-120s are ridiculous! It's not the fastest MINI or the fastest tuner, but it sure is a helluva sleeper that I built more "For the Curves" than straight lines. The downfall is that the car is so fragile that I am afraid to step on the gas from fear of blowing up. Seriously! I knew MINIs were train wrecks to maintenance, but I figured if I built the car right, didn't slack on anything and took good care of her that the car would treat me good. Errgh... If the car wasn't so fun to drive and the work I put into the project so damn intense and expensive I would probably get rid of my MINI. I'm in so deep now though that I might as well finish what I started. I'm working on internals now. Running up on Hellcats is so much fun! When they won't pull up next to me at the next light because they got beat by a MINI stationwagon is great. Then my car breaks at the next light and they roll by me laughing! I love the channel and subscribed due to the no nonsense, in your face and to the point facts. There is no sugar coating and everything is told like it is and as it should be!
I have a question. With the rage of JDM cars from Japan, was there ever talks of making American versions of the R34 or even the Silvia S15? Just giving two examples for reference.
You're getting a lot better at this. thanks for all the truth, Good job. I'm happy I went with Injen and Magnaflow when I threw parts at my little commuter.
11:58 that little laugh really says something..LoL 13:06 truth!! I had an eg with a B18B swap (exhaust and intake NO headers) and i beat a neon srt4 and beat another eg with a H22 swap.. also beat a crx with a B16a1 with full bolt ons and cams... Had a mazda 5 and I beat an itr.. that's right an itr... I should've lost but he didn't know how to control his launch
Remember back in the 80's there were several mods that claimed to reduce emissions and fuel economy. One did this by seemingly leaning out the carb, usually leading to lots of "pinging" every time you even looked at a hill as the engine started to detonate.. Another was nothing more than an adjustable fuel flow valve on the fuel line into the carb having similar effects..
7:25 Haha those drivers are so fucking clueless. I had a job years ago picking up cars for MOTs, drove enough "boy racer" cars with shit like noisy exhaust mods, but a 1.2 is still just a 1.2, no matter how loud you try to make it.
I saw and heard, a very loud high revving modified exhaust four banger, drive me the other day. I thought to myself, "Hmm, I didn't know that obnoxiously loud could move so slow".
Pops and Bangs tunes are probably one of the stupidest ripoff mods I've seen lately. It makes no damn sense other than destroying your cats (if you have them) and making pointless noise.
This is your best video. You have seen what does and doesn't work. Kudos to you shouting out the channels that specialize in tuning the variety of popular cars today.
Magnets around fuel lines to polarize fuel before it gets into the carburettor (where it promptly is dumped into a float bowl) - I figured this out the first time I saw a diagram of a carburettor at 12 or so.
Hell I'll give y'all my personal experience with fuel additives. I used a fuel system cleaner in my 2001 Nissan Sentra yesterday. And now I have to replace the fuel pump because it DID do its job. The built in filter is clogged up with all the gunk it removed but can't pass through the filter, cutting off my fuel randomly
Dude same thing happened to me years ago when I had my 95 Toyota Camry. But all I did was press the gas and it started right up, since it's a 95 Camry and not a crappy Sentra, I was on my way and stopped using those additives.
@@sharpemang oh it started up no problem after it cut off. After I ran that tank out it's been fine aside from a 20yr old motor mount shittin itself literally 2 hours ago lol
There are serious electronic kits out there that produce real serious boost! These kits however cost between $3,000-$5,000. There are a few channels on here that have a couple of vids of these expensive kits being installed. One of them shows a kit being installed on a N/A Chevy Cruise. This kit cost $5,000 and was on loan to the RU-vidr by the company who makes it. It showed up in a "military" style type of briefcase and was paired with a serious as hell looking battery. Just as the above video describes... There are no "cheap" shortcuts when modding or upgrading your car for decent horse power gains. The electric kits that are described by OCMech are the crazy cheap ones found on Amazon and Ebay. These things are bad... So bad that they can faulter, break apart, and get sucked into the intake and destroy your engine!
Great video! This should be a requirement to watch for anyone who is considering modifying their car for the first time (or 2nd). Anything beyond a bolt-on intake and exhaust, I'd also recommend upgrading your brakes, suspension and possibly clutch to better handle the substantial increase in power.
I remember the tornado thing commercials they showed a 94-96 impala ss n i always thought was weird that the after was the OEM hp ratings then thought that long intake it dont matter if u swirl the air it'll go laminar once it hits throttle blades before it goes into cylinders
"Just because it's louder doesn't make it faster" Heresy! Every backyard monkey-wrencher knows loud and fast are synonyms. Ask anyone hotrodding a bike.
Another thing people forget is upgrading drive trains, if your putting a lot of HP to your motor your stock drive train can handle that power until a a certain point. Perfect example my 2006 Cadillac Escalade, I’ve got a stage two Texas speed cam, heads, short headers, both cats deleted with full exhaust, bigger injectors, and a tune from hell. All with a 100% stock 4L60E transmission, one of the absolute worst transmissions to be bolting power up too. Quite frankly I’m surprised it hasn’t blown as of yet but it will be getting upgrades whether it blows or not cause eventually it will go, it’s just a matter of time.
