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:manufacturers don't put everything that works in new car designs, because of the costs of R&D involved. If you're telling me that you "already know" that the Tornado would give a slight increase in HP, then what R&D cost would be involved? There would be none. I disagree with your point that it works in theory. I contend that such a simple, "one size fits all" device such as the Tornado doesn't give any horsepower benefit at all, and probably robs a slight amount of power since there's a restriction in your intake now. But their clever marketing team probably markets a decrease in horsepower as an increase in gas mileage. This is the reason that there are huge R&D costs involved, because gaining horsepower is a lot harder than randomly dropping one of these in your intake. In reality you'd have to find the optimum place to make a change, since making changes in the wrong places can actually hurt performance. So they have to do simulations to figure out what needs to be done in what area, then they must fabricate an actual physical part to try it in a real, live test to see if their simulations are correct. There is a lot of trial and error involved, you can't just make a miracle device that supposedly works on all cars.
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