4 Misconceptions About Car Mods I'm Tired of Hearing...

Check out Mod Misconceptions PART 2 Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmxazAGEc0g

Number 5: blinker fluid is just a prank, this is very important for your car you must do it. You need to change blinker fluid

As a technician I appreciate this video to know I’m not crazy for the first two points

I'd add another thing about ECU tuning. Yeah. They maybe add some 10-15 hp in a worst case scenario. But here's the BIG elephant in the room: It's not about the amount of power delivered at the redline. It's about how power does get delivered all over the revs. There's no case in having 800 hp at 8500 rpm, if the car its completely undriveable from 1000 to 7000, and gets crashed after leaving the house's driveway.

The first mod you should make, imo, is tires. They let you accelerate, brake, and steer better. It's actually a better upgrade than just coilovers. Maybe add some rims to fit bigger stickier tires, but for your money, it's the best bang for your buck.

A “huge improvement” also really depends on what you’re doing. When it comes to road cars it’s usually like 50-100 hp. But in actual racing, especially in sports car racing where we have tight regulations, having an extra 5 hp is a HUGE difference

To reinforce the 3rd point, in the Crown Vic community, getting a Marty tune can easily cut your 0-60 time down 1-2 seconds from 9 seconds to 7-8

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Good to see someone out there supporting even the smallest mods. Not everyone is comfortable pulling their car apart (with no idea whether they can reassemble it) and sometimes just having something small and easy might give someone an incentive to do more later down the line.

I always tell everyone to get an intake not for power but for the sound. Worth it, especially if you have a quiet, small engine

As someone who currently doesn't have a muffler on a 95 horsepower car, it is VERY noticable.

For my car, dual cone intakes were one of the first mods I did because the stock airbox is restrictive af. Also, email tunes are great either way. For a lot of email tuners available for my car, you get free revisions, and they will actually have you do a pull, take a log, and send it to them so that they can adjust the tune to your specific car.

IMO a cold air intake is only worth it if you're going all out and giving it real cold, fresh air. Get a headlight intake or put it out the hood or do whatever, just give it lots of air intake.

Man sounds like a disappointed dad, I didn’t need 2

And even if basic cold air intakes and exhausts didn’t matter, they’re still a good way to comfortably get your feet wet when wanting to start modding. Those are the first two mods I did on my car and just a simple couple hours undoing a few bolts or clamps helped me break through the initial intimidation of messing around in my engine bay or getting around underneath my car. They’re fantastic beginner mods for the jumping off point they provide

I totally agree with you. People seem to forget that any mod is just a part of something bigger. Of course any of these mods alone are hardly even giving any real profit... but all of them (and many others) combined give some serious gain. I love that you included shelf tunes. Even on an almost stock car with some minor upgrades it's good to have some safe tune. Fun fact - I was noting my thoughts about each of the mod you mentioned just before you explained that and I had very simillar conclusions. I'll provide my notes in the reply to this comment 😁 About the powerboxes. There are some chip-boxes that are designed specifically for particular engine models that by-pass ecu and actually really increase power. I wouldn't recommend them though as these are just faking input data in order to enrich fuel-air ratio.

13 years ago, i upgraded my exhaust system on my 99 subbie sus, and the difference was def noticed. not only did it give a small increase in hp, the dirty growl was sooooo worth it.

In my area, loud exhausts save lives! Every vehicle I have ever owned has had a modified exhaust system. I've also never hit a deer or even came relatively very close to hitting one. On the flipside my mother has taken out practically a whole herd of deer over the years with her multiple (very quiet) vehicles. At this point I am convinced it is more than a coincidence. 🤷🤓

a few years ago there was a youtube video with a v8 engine running as a test crate, they tested all the different intakes, if i remember correctly, the one with best performance was a salad bowl, modified to be used as an intake

I can't believe he didn't talk about the best performance mod people think is fake Red engine covers