Slant factory performance
Those 200-300-900mpg carburetor books you could order from a classified ad in the back of Popular Mechanics magazine were full of earnest testimonials, many of them dolled up all science-like with words like 'data' and 'findings'.
And don't let's forget about that humble dirt-farmer in India with the gradeschool education who, by the smoky yellow light of the cow-poo fire in his hut, figured out the secret magic secret to massively increased power and fuel economy by secretly carving secret grooves into the cylinder head (Shhh, it's a secret). Numerous people claim it works. No, it doesn't, not even a little bit, but the human mind just loves to latch onto myths and fairytales and conspeercy theories. We want to believe the truth is out there. We crave that feeling like we hold knowledge other people don't have. Makes us feel all special and powerful-like.
Hey, anyone else remember the Torque Plus™ fiasco? The one where Roland Osborne (Chief Editor and Preacher of Chrysler Power magamazine) ran articles trumpeting a big bunch of giant benefits to intake gaskets with screens across the ports? Giant increases in power and fuel economy; race-only cams now idled smooth as glass on pump gas, and no more waxy buildup on no-wax floors or spots on your glassware with amazing new Torque Plus™…and it turned out—fasten yer seatbelt—to be a big ol' pile of lies and nonsense (no duh, rilly?).
Mike, this is not the first amazing super-secret widget you've bandwagonned. Remember those "Powre-Valvez" you were hawking 16 years ago? Same big steaming pile of imaginary benefits, but the only 'data' the maker/inventor/chief cook and bottlewasher would provide was a little chart of LOLworthy numbers, claimed to be from a test on a Chev 327 motor. Same cold, hard reality, though, and—amaze!—that company folded, too. Musta been because um intake valves were becoming a thing of the past…er…um um…the owner threw in the towel and…um…HEY! LOOK OVER THERE!
Here in this universe, there's stuff that happens and stuff that don't. When it looks like stuff that don't be happening do be happening, it's usually because whoever says so doesn't actually understand what he thinks he sees. Or because he has a p'ticular intere$t in people believing he sees what he says he sees. Or because he's bound 'n' determined to see what he wants to see, in accord with his sincerely-held religious beefs.
Cool story, tho. You go on and stick to it all you want.
There are numerous people who claim a lot of things.
Those 200-300-900mpg carburetor books you could order from a classified ad in the back of Popular Mechanics magazine were full of earnest testimonials, many of them dolled up all science-like with words like 'data' and 'findings'.
And don't let's forget about that humble dirt-farmer in India with the gradeschool education who, by the smoky yellow light of the cow-poo fire in his hut, figured out the secret magic secret to massively increased power and fuel economy by secretly carving secret grooves into the cylinder head (Shhh, it's a secret). Numerous people claim it works. No, it doesn't, not even a little bit, but the human mind just loves to latch onto myths and fairytales and conspeercy theories. We want to believe the truth is out there. We crave that feeling like we hold knowledge other people don't have. Makes us feel all special and powerful-like.
Hey, anyone else remember the Torque Plus™ fiasco? The one where Roland Osborne (Chief Editor and Preacher of Chrysler Power magamazine) ran articles trumpeting a big bunch of giant benefits to intake gaskets with screens across the ports? Giant increases in power and fuel economy; race-only cams now idled smooth as glass on pump gas, and no more waxy buildup on no-wax floors or spots on your glassware with amazing new Torque Plus™…and it turned out—fasten yer seatbelt—to be a big ol' pile of lies and nonsense (no duh, rilly?).
Mike, this is not the first amazing super-secret widget you've bandwagonned. Remember those "Powre-Valvez" you were hawking 16 years ago? Same big steaming pile of imaginary benefits, but the only 'data' the maker/inventor/chief cook and bottlewasher would provide was a little chart of LOLworthy numbers, claimed to be from a test on a Chev 327 motor. Same cold, hard reality, though, and—amaze!—that company folded, too. Musta been because um intake valves were becoming a thing of the past…er…um um…the owner threw in the towel and…um…HEY! LOOK OVER THERE!
Here in this universe, there's stuff that happens and stuff that don't. When it looks like stuff that don't be happening do be happening, it's usually because whoever says so doesn't actually understand what he thinks he sees. Or because he has a p'ticular intere$t in people believing he sees what he says he sees. Or because he's bound 'n' determined to see what he wants to see, in accord with his sincerely-held religious beefs.
Cool story, tho. You go on and stick to it all you want.
