Salt Rat Oval

Some of these are already a reality.

"piggybacked fuel injection/timing maps so you could switch between them while driving to suit your mood/what you needed"

- There's already a few EFI's / chip upgrades on the market that provide a 'girly button' to allow extreme boost etc to be switched out of the map when the missus uses the car for the shopping trip

"variable length headers where the collector slid, set up so the tuned legnth of the exhaust changed to the optimum for the motors rpm"

- Honda NSX has these and I think the Mitsubishi GT3000 as well.


"an electricly operated stand off kit. this idea was from back when i first got into vw's."

- There's a guy in the UK with a custom orange Ghia who's done something similar - i think he's removed the cooling vents and has a cooling flap open when the car is moving temp gets too high - bit like a Porsche rear spoiler.

"a clutched fan pulley so you could "slip the fanbelt" when ever you needed just a little more go for a few seconds. i belive that this has now been done with auto airconditioning pulleys."

- I could never understand why no-one had used a viscous coupling to achieve the same - this is common for crank mounted fans - the fan spins on a high friction coupling - this allows slip during acceleration but at steady engine speeds the friction in the coupling causes the fan to spin at crank speed.