<<I've heard people use this word before but they make it seem like
blueprinting itself made more power so I doubt that its just making a
blueprint of the engine. Or am I wrong?>>
You are right, and wrong. I can only explain what I understand about the
process, and then I hope you will understand my answer to your question.
As I've stated hundreds of times, I am not an engine guy, so there are
bond to be flaws in my explanation of this:
When "blueprinting" an engine, you are basically documenting on paper
what your exact specs are for your engine. Bore, stroke, compression,
displacement, EVERYTHING.
I believe that this is done by completely dismantling the engine,
measuring everything, and taking measurements while putting it back
together.
Also, when going through this process, you would fix/remedy any flaws,
discrepancies, and otherwise unwanted defects in the engine. Making sure
that every piston is exactly the same, everything is exactly balanced to
one another, and so forth. By doing this, it is hoped that you will be
able to squeeze every last drop of horsepower and torque from an engine,
which is why you have heard of ppl gaining power by doing this to their
engine.
This process is mainly used when someone thinks that they have made the
"perfect" engine for a particular vehicle. Once blueprinted, this
"perfect" engine can be duplicated exactly the same, which means that
someone else can have the perfect engine.
This would mean that if you did in fact have the "perfect engine", you
could charge a lot of money to anyone wanting your blueprint, or if you
wanted to make a fleet of perfect engined vehicles, you could.
I'm sure that every manufacture has a blueprint of their engine, simply
for building purposes, but it's not worth very much because there is
already an abundance of that blueprinted engine available.
However, if someone like Jay H, Jaime, or the ppl from Florida (who
currently have the fastest SE-R yet) were to blueprint their SE-Rs, that
would be worth some money to someone who wanted to do exactly the same
things that they have done.
I hope that this is accurate enough to help you out, and if it is not, I
hope someone corrects me. I hate giving out false information, but this
is the way that I have always understood that this works :-)
ST3
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