Posted by trucker40 on May 20, 2009 at 19:35:22 from (69.155.110.169):
In Reply to: Re: WHY?? posted by MarkB_MI on May 20, 2009 at 18:41:05:
Well the way they figure fuel economy now is probably different and the actual fuel mileage is probably worse.If you take a 350 Chevy motor,and a 454 Chevy motor,and put as much fuel into and out of the 350 Chevy motor with say a 4 barrel off of a 454 on the 350,ported and polished aftermarket aluminum heads,big tube headers,bored out block and stroked crank,you can get a lot more horsepower out of the 350.However you are going to burn lots more gas too.About the only thing that makes more power and saves fuel is a turbo.There is a limit to what you can do with that,but I dont think anybody is even close to that limit except Volkswagen and some other foreign makes.America is the land of the stupid,where they sell you a piece of plastic for $40,000.00 and even though its better than it was,not near as good as it could be for less money. Every invention thats been put on a motor except the turbo and the smog stuff was invented before 1949.Fuel injection,supercharger,headers,lightweight casting,porting and polishing,hard metal rings,valves all of that was in the late 40s early 50s.It was 1985 I think before General Motors went to high nickel content blocks.Your"new"technology theory is wrong.Technology exists for big money to make profit off of you,not to help you out most of the time.If technology helps you out,its an accident on the way to making big money profit.I dont know if thats wrong,but its not the rosy picture you seem to think it is.
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