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Originally Posted by Soloshawn
Don't you think that GM would have done this already? A massive selling point would have been 35 MPG. Don't think the engineers are stupid. And why would adding a "V" section increase MPG? More air? I see nor do I hear any reason of why this would change anything. No independent testing other than a guy making a boast on a blog. I just saw Jesus on my toast. Believe me because I said so.
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You can put a cai or headers on a car and put up mileage. Why didn't gm do this from the factory? Gm could have made the car a hundred pounds lighter, but they didn't. I think I have an idea why not tho. In this case, say the op picks up a mpg or two. What's the expense? Prolly $30 or so. Let's translate that into numbers for gm. Say it costs an extra $10 to do this mod (in factory form whatever that may be) and it saves 2mpg. Now say (I'm not sure on an accurate number so this is a guess) that gm makes 100,000 of these cars, now multiply the cost and now look how much more gm had to spend to pick up 2mpg.....they might weigh their options and decide against it. Not flaming you man by any means. I do believe that if you free up the breathing a little bit there could be a slight efficiency increase. To a certain extent tho.