Why we start with an air intake is a question that often comes up for me. Mainly the folks that ask are the ones that are sweet and simply take an interest in my passions. Others have seen my work and simply said that is the craziest intake I’ve seen. The best part is I get to talk shop and start telling the improved numbers I’m getting from it. We almost always smile and say damn! I love that and telling folks why I started with this innovative air intake.
Here’s the History Behind Our Air Intake
Ever since my first car, VW Super Beetle, I’ve been looking to get more power. If your reading this and have driven a VW bug, you understand why. I used to go down the 15 freeway to San Diego and have to jam down the hills as fast as I could just to get to 45 mph going up the other side. At the time I didn’t have the means to swap out the engine for any bigger sizes or even throw a Porsche engine in. What it did do is get me to go to the VW/Porsche swap meets at the LA County Fairgrounds. It was there I met all kinds of cool people with ideas to make my li’l blue beetle a bit stronger. It was from there that every car I’ve had I worked on to make it faster or somehow better and that led to even crazier things like working on a pit crew on the old Winston West NASCAR circuit to now creating Race Candy Labs, Inc.
Getting to know the Engine
‘Nuff history. Let’s move to why we started with the air intake system. The air intake system is what funnels the air into the engine. In general, the engine is basically a large pump. What?! Trust me if you look at the basics you have suction and pressure except instead of moving fluid it’s turning metal. So in the engine, you have a fire that helps to turn the pump (engine). Fire needs three things air, fuel, and heat. By adding more air the fire burns hotter. Here’s an example of what I mean. Let’s look at when I built a fire in the fireplace on hot coals. I always end up blowing on the coals to get them to burn hotter, which starts the wood on fire. So basically I’m adding air to get a better burn. Now looking at the engine, the more air that gets in, the better the burn which forces a bigger explosion to turn the engine. Basically more air helps to make more power.
Why Our Air Intake System
Enter the aftermarket performance air intake system. Our approach was first to look at what was out there. Then we took the many years we had as weekend warriors to modify our cars’ air intake system and we came up with a better, more powerful, and easy-to-install innovative air intake. The best part, it makes supreme power which helps with better gas mileage. As long as we keep our gas pedal off the floor and take it easy our large V8 truck gained two miles a gallon. Why because it took less gas to make more power.
Now we want to bring it to you. So you can enjoy working on your car, get more power and get better gas mileage. We are finalizing our prototype to get it out into the wild and then we are increasing our base so we can offer this on more models of cars to reach more people. Stick with us as we update you on our journey. If you have any questions or comments leave us your info on the contacts page.
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