I was at AutoZone today picking up a part.
I was checking out the accesories section,
the decals and the fake hood scoop that
sticks on with tape. Has anyone bought any of
these items? Any good results? Any good low priced things there to spruce up a Galaxy
Silver Grand Prix GT?

no.....

AutoZone accessories are all made in China junk. If you want to fit in with the ricers in the civics, go right ahead lol

about the best things u can get from autozone is a k&n filter and a tornado.

lmfao roflmfao tornado hahahahahahahahahahaha

Dude don't be a frickin ricer... People like you disgrace our cars with chrome stick on vents and apr decals....

Get a rofltornado.

who u talkin to chrisgt?

Well the original poster but it really applies to anyone who does that kind of stuff.

Yeah I bought them all, totally gained me 50hp easy.

Stock up on your blinker fluid while you're there.

oh ok chris gt. well the rest of that stuff is junk, but cant go wrong with a k&n filter and a tornado. they dont make a tornado for a gtp, but i put a k&n filter and tornado on my torrent gxp and it picked up 6 tenths in the quarter.

I seen a GP with a HUGE ricer wing and 3 stickon vents on each fender.We almost got into a fist fight because i told him he disgraced one of the most amazing car.I wish i wouldve took a picture of it

Sorry but the tornado did not have any affect on your quarter mile time. Those things do not work in way, shape, or form.

Hence the term "VatoZone"

i gotta call bs.. unless you mean by picked up being slowing you down.

6 tenths is huge
not even an true CAI would get you more than a tenth
if you do a lil research you will see that there are TRUE dyno tests that show you actualy lose HP and torque from a tornao


there is no way a tornado and a K&n picked you up damn near 3/4 of a second.

if that was the case why wouldn't the people who drag race for a living all run tornado's on their cars

do you really believe that your engine doesn't mix the air and fuel enough? if you think that you have never been into an engine past the filter.

sorry to come off harsh but tornados are BS

back when i was in HS my auto class actually did a test with one. we lost between .5-2 HP on average

well 2fast4u i dont know weather a tornado gains or loses hp. but all i know is after i installed a k&n filter and a tornado on my torrent gxp it went from 15.70's to 15 teens. so i dont know if it from the the filter and tornado or from it getting broke in and picking up on its own, it just kept getting faster every time i ran it.

i have the hood scoops lol

i love them call me what you want. lol

...could it be driver skill increasing as you learned what you were doing?

Ya no in all honesty it was probably you learning how to launch the car. The reason why no one will believe either one of those helped you is because it takes alot more than 5hp with a cai to gain you 3/4 of a second. Unless you launched like crap the first time.

Then again when running 15's it doesn't take that much power but deff more than 5hp. It takes us turbo cars 5psi of boost added on to crack down a second usually which is well over 70hp so I really don't see your cai getting you down 3/4ths but like I said 10's and 11's are alot harder to crack than 15's.

well im sure i know how to drag race, i have been racing for 19 years. i was just saying it picked up after i installed those. like i said it could have been the car getting used to being raced, the air or something. but im sure those helped some. i know all about what you can get from incresed hp among other things.

I'm not doubting you. I was just saying the tornado was not what helped you. And since you have been racing for so long you should know that an Intake even on high cpr motors does not net you that much. The intake is not the pinnacle point on the build. Sure the intake manifold most defiantly for cfm's etc but the filter?...

well there isnt many performance parts for the 3.6 in my torrent gxp. so i dont have plans for doing much with it, except haveing a custom exhaust made with a flowmaster muffler. hopeing that will free up some power to atleast put it in the high 14's. but i will put most of my time and money in my 98 grand prix gtp and my 87 mustang gt.

I still can't believe that LY7 nets you 230ish whp stock. lol stupid vvti dohc motors lol Pushrod ftw!
Unless its a 2JZ-GTE lol

I thought you were joking about the tornado.

Lose the tornado.

Just think about it. How does the air travel from there? How is the maifold laid out? All that swirling doesn't do jack squat. Once it gets a couple of inches past the tornado any cyclonic action is probably gone due to the intake manifold design. If anything it hinders airflow.

Now on carb'd motors there might have been some benifit because of the inefficeint air fuel mix. Having the cyclonic could have helped with dispersing the fuel droplets out of the carb.

If you put the Torrent on a dyno with the tornado and without and you can show the tornado made an improvement I'll eat my underwear.

Herc I will do the exact same thing. Im not just saying that, I will.

come to think of it
i already have an K&n, now if i get a tornado imma run 11.60's i like the sound of that.
as long as my flux capacitor works correctly,and my butt dyno is showing the correct numbers:)

and Proud i dont mean to rag on you... but to us anyone that says the tornado helps is being goofy.
its kinda like e3 spark plugs..... thats a waste also.

yea the 3.6 makes decent hp. they are developing a supercharger for the 3.6 in the new camero. i wonder if it will fit on my torrent lol. i dont know if the tornado made a hp increase or not, but it feels more pepier and it picked up in the quarter when i added it and the k&n. the only dyno in this area is a chasie dyno, hard to put my torrent on that with it being awd.

I'm going to sound like a dick right now but take it as you will.

For someone that has been drag racing for 19 years I would presume that you would know a thing or two about motor efficiency. I guess I'm looking at it from the point of people who build cars to race them idk you may just race everyday street cars.

It would be extremely hard for me to believe you race fast cars i.e 11sec and lower and trapping over 120 and still think the tornado helps.

Again no offense but ya.

2fast4u, i didnt say that the tornado helped, i just stated that after i installed the k&n and tornado that my torrent gxp picked up in the quarter, dont know if it was the install or from it breakin in, good air ect. thats all i was sayin, no need for the smartass comments. chrisgt, i know more than you think, and again i didnt say the tornado helped, just that it picked up after i installed it and the k&n, it could have been many things that helped it. i might not have raced a 11 second or faster car, but dont mean i dont know about drag raceing, it isnt how fast u go, its how consistant you are. i do race a 87 mustang gt wish a 5 speed that runs 12.70's with stock heads and cam, with just bolt ons. so i think i know quite a bit about drag raceing.

If someone reads these two quotes especially the first one where you say the BEST things you can get are the filter and the tornado they will say oh he thinks the tornado is good and guess why? Because you just said the only two BEST things you can buy are the tornado and filter. You said it was good just admit it and don't try to back out of it once you already said it. Everyone called you out on it because you said it was good. And you didn't say that it was just the filter that gained you that much you said it was the tornado and the filter.

I really don't care how many times my car traps 130 I only care that I reached my goal.

9 and below and or 130+ trap is fast

10-11 and or 120-130 trap is quick

12 and slower trapping under 115 is alright

Anything slower than 13's and barely scraping and or below 100 is slow.

I wasn't calling you out on it because like I said I don't know how much you know but anyone that says something dumb like the tornado is good really doesn't come off as someone that knows much if anything. Again no offense you could be an awesome racer but I'd think someone who likes racing so much would know a few things about the mechanical side of things. Not just clutch shift go.

Again if you have been doing it for 19 yrs your damn older than so don't think this is being disrespectful because I respect loads of builders on here like chico, corey, hutch, 2fast4u etc.

What are the other numbers on your time slip?
I'm mainly talking 60' time.

I didnt buy anything, no stickers, no scoops.

Just thinking out loud.

Dang it...im slow:(

That's just my view on it dude everyone sees it differently.

Now that I think about it your standards are quite high. Do you have a lot of people around you that mod cars as well or are you a lone wolf?

The main car group I'm in is about 100 deep with three 9 sec cars eight 10 second cars etc etc so ya I have high standards. We have pulled over 300 into some of our meets. Oldest person is like 26 in our group. Loads of them don't go for e/t we usually go for traps. We have up to 152 our highest.

Up in Ma there are some meets with over 1500 cars over at gillete meets.

I'm afraid the Tornado is pure snake oil and weather you've falen victim to imfomercials or wishfull thinking these contraptions will give you 0 gains period ,there are time tested mods that will give you hp and track improvements such as cam ,headers ,gearing,weight trimming ect. I have been racing and building engines for 35yrs and have seen many gimics come and go but a rule of thumb is it takes aproximatly 100 hp to gain a full sec. in the 1/4 .Chico(pops)

chrisgt, i said the best things u can buy at autozone, that is what i meant. and again i meant i picked up after i installed those, not sayin because of them, cuz it could have been that or not. dont know. but yea i know more about racing than u give me credit for. but its cool. instead of goin after each other, lets go rag on some chevy and dodge boys lol

why rag on Chevy? You drive a Pontiac Monte Carlo. Or is it the Chevy Grand Prix? Whatever.

The point is, it wasn't because of the tornado. At best it does nothing, at worst it impedes the intake.

come on the stickers arnt all that bad

i gained like 10hp in 4 seconds with the "gt" sticker from auto zone. insane!!!!!

lol. All of your credibility is gone.

i rag on chevy's cause they dont make a car that looks as good as a pontiac. and how do i lose my credibility?

Not because of your Chevy comment, the fact that you think a Tornado and a filter will net you .6 in the 1/4.

At least some people see my argument about the 1/4 mile gain lol.

and again, like i said, it picked up after the tornado and filter install, didnt say because of it. but im sure it helped some, but not all.

You lose! Good day Sir!

lol didnt know it was a competion.

Physics says you're wrong. With respect to the tornado.

lol didnt know you thought tornados really worked.

well i dont know if it did or not, but all i know is it picked up after the install, so all im sayin is it picked up after the install, so dont know if it from that or it just picked up on its own. but everyone is entitled to thier opion.

Well I have mine about you.

again, dont know if it did or not. so what is your opion about me?

opinion*

so i spelled opinion wrong, it happens, i am human just like everyone else.

Im just messing with you, you spelled it wrong two posts in a row.

but it did not help at all....... and the K&n is good for maybe 5hp max

there are a bunch of other factors that must have changed ( you learning the car, temp outside, engine temp, oil temp, tire pressure etc.)

because the filter with the tornado did not get you 6 tenths of a 1/4 mile
Period.

it has to be other factors or you a 1 in 30,000,000,000,000 other drivers that actually got 6 tenths in a 1/4 from a filter/tornado

well i missed it twice, sorry, i must not type fast enough lol. and yes it could have been other factors too, i just meant it picked up after the installs, i didnt factor in the air, engine temp, ect. i should have stated that, my bad.

I love how progressively through the pages you finally admit it was the other factors. The first page 2fast and a few other people including myself said it was other factors and your threw the 19 years of drag racing saying it wasn't your learning the car and or launching better. And now finally you admit it lol. Just looking back having a giggly party :p
and bustin your chops.

but i didnt say it was just the install, i said afterward. i have been doing this long enough to know what works and what doesnt. laugh if u may, but it got old and lets move on.

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