Re: Mods, Upgrades, Thoughts

[mtyler <mtyler@hctc.net>]

John F Sandhoff wrote

>And I will happily bet you that those cars were DESIGNED to have those
>louvers.
>
>It's all about engineering and design. A car is an engineered machine
>(well, maybe not Chrysler products). If you poke at that design in one
>place, it's amazing what might break someplace else. It wouldn't surprise
>me (I don't know, this is just a HYPOTHESIS) to see that adding louvers
>will shorten the life of the alternator (at least on the later style layout).
>
>I try (unsuccessfully) to keep quiet at some of the things I see people
>suggest: larger brake calipers without changing the master cylinder;
>ripping out the PVC system; blocking the water flow thru the intake
>manifold on a street car... If a person understands the car as a SYSTEM,
>and does the proper engineering to account for ALL the ramifications, then
>certainly GO FOR IT! But first consider WHY the engineers did what
>they did - they _usually_ had a pretty darn good reason!
>
>There.... I'll go away now...

One way to look at a car is a product of engineering and design, and then 
there's the automobile as a series of economic and logistical decisions 
in order to make money.  Mark Gill mentioned how cars often go together 
with assembly, not maintainence in mind.  Don't go away, by the way ;^)



-Marc T.

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