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Originally Posted by turbominivan

i got a chance to drive the car today with the new home cut 131 DVs.
hard to tell by the seat of your pants, but it seems to have easily the same power if not a bit more than it had with the 'full cut' 181s, but it is much more drivable with these 131s having a touch of the collar left on, and it is not nearly as smokey and boggy as it was with the full cuts.
at idle, it does still haze, but not quite as much as with the full cuts.

the best benefit seems to be the similar power to the full cuts, but with less boggyness due to a bit less smoke. it is more drivable in the fact that the throttle seems to respond nicer and make the car more predictable with a smoother building power curve, rather the unresponsive cloud of death, that suddenly and unpredictably becomes a car being near sideways at highway speeds.

of course off a light it is still boggy (although slightly not as bad as before) with no fuel plate, so ill try putting the fuel plate back in and test again if the roads stay dry.

perhaps that will give the car the best of both worlds as far as driveability.

The fuel plate won't help you at all off the line. Thats all in the AFC.