Miata Mailing List: June 1995, Message #79
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   From: a.mccombs3@genie.geis.com
Subject: Multiple power boosting thingi
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:55:21 -0400

Josh Moore asks about performance boosts after installing multiple
aftermarket performance enhancing goodies.
 
Be very careful with this sort of thing.  I knew a guy back in the '70s,
when gas mileage was a big thing, who installed a special cam to increase
his gas mileage by 25%, a special carb to increase it by another 35%, a
special transmission to increase it by another 35%, and special spark plugs
to increase it by another 15%.
 
Every few hundred miles he had to stop to drain his gas tank.  ;)
 
All seriousness aside, many of the aftermarket goodies either will not
physically fit with other aftermarket goodies, and/or are not compatible
with them.  Can't blame the manufacturers; I don't see how they could
possibly check every combination to see what works with their unit(s) and
what doesn't.  I can't even keep up with all the stuff available.  Just make
sure you can return it if it's unused and doesn't fit, after you've
installed something else.
 
Example of the above:  It's unlikely you'll find a forced air induction
system which is compatible with any of the cold air induction systems.
(Well, the NACA duct in the headlight cover should work with about anything,
I guess.)  The various forced induction systems each have their own intake
system plumbed under the hood somehow or another, and probably won't match
up with something like (example) the Jackson Cold Air Induction system.
 
                                                --Jack M. & KANSEI--