Increased power without consequences

[blacksambo]

We've even had members (Mainly Tone, God Bless Him!) try to polish and go as far as ceramic coat his intake manifold to improve in-flow. I've seen ceramic coated exhaust, exhausts with minimal bends, duals set up different ways, different mufflers, different tips, different cats, no cats, just about anything you could imagine, it's been done. Results were verified by actual and 1/4 times with computations while being hooked to equipment dyno not just by how it feels or the "Butt Dyno" and guess what, Isuzu got it right. There was very little improvement without major sacrifice in economy.

The best power improvement was/is (if you ever find a kit again) the Supercharger. But again, the economy goes out the door.

The end result is, the VX is what it is.

Well said!

[Chopper]

short of an entire driveline transplant....we're stuck with the anemic wheezy setup we have.....we're only 120bhp and about 100 torques away from state of the art.....for a modern 4 banger (boosted) or a 3litre normally aspirated six pot engine.....a 1984 engine hooked to a 1978 transmission at least the body looks kinda cool

[blacksambo]

short of an entire driveline transplant....we're stuck with the anemic wheezy setup we have.....we're only 120bhp and about 100 torques away from state of the art.....for a modern 4 banger (boosted) or a 3litre normally aspirated six pot engine.....a 1984 engine hooked to a 1978 transmission at least the body looks kinda cool

Well, you've got to remember the VX is technically more than 27 years old. And maybe older than that, since the edition hit the Tokyo Auto Show in 1993, and it had to be on the drawing board before that. Enjoy your VX like the venerable antique it is.