"Ernest Christley" wrote in message
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The guys at work were passing around these magazines about 'tricking
out' cars. You know, the little japanese cars like in that 'fast and
furious' movie.

I love these bozos...

They add spoilers to the back of front drive, front steering cars...
They add skirts to the bottoms which probably cause more interference drag
and add more weight than anything else...
They add ZR tires on cars that'll probably never approach the need for the
low profile...

People pay more for high octane gas thinking it's better under the
assumption that since high performance engines require high octane, that
high octane = high performance... when high octane gas actually has less
energy by weight. (You should use the lowest octane you can as long as you
don't suffer from detonation... because that's all the octane rating is)

And my all time favorite... people who install those windshield wiper
pressure vanes on the BACK wiper of their cars, where the airflow is
actually working against them!

Reminds me of the time I was in college and needed to replace the muffler on
my car. I stopped at Midas and looked through the book... the cheapest
muffler they had (not the one I bought) was a nearly straight pipe (I'm
guessing it widened somewhat, but I didn't have a micrometer with me )...
on it's short list of features was "High Performance Sound" aka, the muffler
didn't muffle... LOL

After all, if it LOOKS fast, it must be fast... scoff

Eric