Sept 2005 Popular Mechanics had some info about air filters, intakes and other gizmos (sorry Giz) that helped produce power. In summary, they said the same thing..... if it was already cheap and easy to get significantly more power, GM would have done it in the first place.

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you have to take into account they tune the intakes for sound deadening, which can cause restrictions. a general glance at a few intakes and filters won't tell you if your car could benefit. improved flow reduces drain on your motor as a pump, freeing power. adding a simple intake won't likely give you big gains, but in combination with other N/A mods can make that little bit of difference to make more power as a whole...

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I think what KYSol was talking about was where they tested the tornado and things like that, the magazine might have had more stuff in it though. In general everything about a car is tuned to the worst case scenario, Also things like intake & exhaust are designed to reduce noise as much as possible. while a few HP per mod might not be significant, doing 4 or 5 things that add a few HP each can add up.

Here's the artile I think KYSol was refering to.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/auto...y/1802932.html