Originally Posted by ppro
>> the highly questionable Hyper Ground and Hyper Voltage kits <<
This is the biggest bottle of snake-oil perpetrated on the uninformed and naive car owner I have ever seen. You get a package of sparkly wires with fancy connectors and a bill for one or three hundred dollars.
Every "before and after" dyno test I have ever seen used to try an substantiate the claims about performance increases is flawed. The controls on the tests were not present, the vehicle underwent several other modifications or was tested several months earlier for the "before".
I contact the represented the manufacturer (Sun) and after several exchanges with one of their "engineers" I was convinced it was a sham. No engineering studies (promised) were ever produced. Flimsy claims were offered that raised more questions than answered.
Consider that a company like Chrysler or Mercedes Benz
1. Do not sell these products in their own performance catalog
2. Do not offer these products as standard equipment
3. Do not use these products on their racing vehicles.
If there was such a problem with grounding a vehicle that these products actually did something, it would be detected before the vehicle went into production.
With all due respect to the vendor who posted this message, please don't carry products we know are bogus just because you've been asked to do so. It erodes your credibility and raises the concern that you will sell anything just to make some money. Honestly, I'd rather see you sponsor a valid scientific test to demonstrate how useless this stuff really is. That would be a great service to the automotive enthusiast community!
In case anyone wants to ask what my qualificatios are - I am an engineer for one of the largest aerospace companies in the world. I assure you, there are no hyper-grounds on the F-35...
Not arguing but just throwing my 2 cents in. I agree with everything you mentioned except for one. The statement about would have included it as original equipment or fixed it when the vehicle went into production. Don't get me wrong, if there is no benefit, no one should claim there is but every single mod I have decided on made me think how easy it would have been to include this as original equipment or at least "their" version. The production "cost factor" is a bunch of crap. All the mods I have listed has improved upon an already great overall product but I can't help but to think things like the larger HE, more volume HE pump etc. SL55 pipe should have been done from the start. They figured for the masses, it was perfectly acceptable as is.
I too would like to see hard facts. I always keep an open mind when it comes to poducts that are not as conventional and as widely accepted until proven they don't work. The Code3 pully is one of them. There were a ton of people that wanted to discredit the piece just because it was against some people thought process as being a reliable and safe product. At this point, it has been my favorite mod.
Steve