Re: High Performance Ignition System?

[ScottyCBoy@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/9/99 5:18:24 PM !!!First Boot!!!, sefisher@cisco.com 
writes:

<< That's nothing.  I once got a 33% improvement in power simply by
 installing *stock* wires on an '84 GTI.
 
 Of course, the #1 wire in the old set was broken off at the plug
 connector.
 
 And yes, some people might say that it was a 25% improvement, but 33%
 makes it sound bigger, doesn't it?  Point is -- it's absolutely true,
 and yet it's very deceptive. (We won't get into discussions about
 whether a non-firing cylinder, because of drag and compression losses
 without corresponding power output, actually reduces an engine's output
 beyond the simple mathematical ratio.  Oh, who am I kidding?  We'll
 argue about that intensely, with one camp posting references to alleged
 white papers and the other camp smugly insisting that they're right and
 anyone who disagrees is simply too stupid to breathe without written
 instructions, and the rest of us will just roll our eyes in disgust and
 wait for them to get as sick of each other as we are of them.)
 
 My suspicion is that if the company publishes tests to document these
 15% increases, they were using a baseline which had some faulty
 components.  Or put another way -- it *is* possible to get massive
 improvements in power, drivability, and fuel economy by swapping plug
 wires -- if the old ones were broken.
 
 --Scott
  >>

Right On!! I was hoping someone (Except myself) would attempt to put an end 
to this torsen/non torsen whitepaper I am smarter and use bigger words than 
you crap.

Scott