Originally Posted by
Fabrik8
It's an estimation of the power you'll gain based on the nitrous jet size, etc., but that's a really rough estimation. THere are a lot of factors that play into how much power you'll actually gain, like engine efficiency, etc. A Honda/Nissan/etc will usually get more than a domestic engine for a given amount of nitrous because of the better efficiency, etc.
Right the make of the engine really changes the fact of how much output you will recieve for the rated shot....
Anyways up until that last line he had it right on the money.
Wise up, you're talking out of your ass.
This has NOTHING to do with what the actual power output is. How "good" the company has no relevance to this at all, it only has to do with how big the jets are.
If one company has slightly bigger jets than another company, so the power output per advertised kit size is more, that doesn't mean one company is better. That just means that one company uses jets that aren't accurately sized compared to another company.
If you get 125 HP instead of 100 HP, the jets are just bigger than they need to be, and the average power rating isn't accurate. If you rate your kit for 'X' power and use 0.045 jets instead of another company's 'X' power kit with 0.040 jets, the kits are rated the same but one will get more power (both more than the rated power most likely). Which company is better? Does that jet sizing have anything to do with the quality of the rest of the kit, like the fittings, solenoids, lines, valves, etc.?
Stupid analogy time:
If I gave you a baker's dozen (13) donuts instead of 12 donuts, and another donut shop gave you 12, does that mean that my donuts are better quality? No, it just means that I gave you more.
If this is all that matters to you when you're telling yourself which company is better, then you're fooling yourself.
The word good is not the same your word "better". Good means having desirable qualities. My old TNT kit was rated at the rear wheels, that to me is a good quality, in comparison to another company that rates at the crankshaft. The word better means of a higher quality or greater in excellence. If I were to use the word better then I would be stating that one kit is better than another. But using the word good just merely states my opinion I think a good company should rate their kits at the rear wheels since it is the most reaonable measurement the end user can actually measure. SO your fooling yourself by changing his wording... know the difference.