Fallout 2 - Car upgrades

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Ryuzaki

First time out of the vault
After you install fuel cell controller in Den at smitty and pay him 2000$ u get the car

As i i know there are 3 upgrade
1: install fuel cell regulator at smitty which found at Klamath, makes the consumption half than usual
2: in NCR, there are a junkie who installs "Cynthia The Blower" and that makes car go faster
3: when ur car stolen at New Reno, you buy it back from T-Ray, he improves it somehow

My question is which exactly that newreno upgrade gives? I know it makes trunk capacity larger, but i also heard it gives better engine performance, dont know if the second one is true
and i heard that if you dont let your car stolen until u finish the game (dont park in new reno main street) u get some gravitiy plate upgrade to your extended trunk, which makes the consumption also zero
im not a pack rat type so i dont really need trunk upgrade by itself, so if it wont improve the "engine performance", i would skip this mission until i finished the story, to get the gravity thing.
so anyone knows that Ray speeds my car a bit or not? (if i do it before finishing game)
 
"You get 750 xp for resolving the situation in any of the first five ways; if you drove off you have to return to get the xp. If you left T-Ray alive you can pay him $500 ($300 with decent Barter) for a general car upgrade: increased trunk space (which is a blessing) and better engine performance. It's important that you get this upgrade right away, because once you drive the car off the map and return you'll lose all dialogue choices due to a scripting glitch (the "drive away" strategy is not really recommended for this reason). You can, of course, blow everyone away after the deal is complete, for the combat xp and the stuff in their lockers. "

Per's guide:

http://user.tninet.se/~jyg699a/fallout2.html#reno
 
Also:

Per's Guide said:
If you have already won the game when you buy your car back, talk to T-Ray again after getting the trunk upgrade and he'll offer you free "grav-plates" which will make the car zoom around the map and reduce fuel consumption to next to nothing. Because of T-Ray's dialogue bug you can't leave the map with the car until you've finished the game if you want the grav-plates, or he'll just stare at you stupidly when you come to visit him. (Contrary to popular lore, however, you can have it stolen before then, and even buy it back - as long as you leave it in the chop shop!) A carless game is no fun, so if you're going for the plates it simply means you must never leave your car unattended on Virgin Street. One way to go about this is to talk to Jules when you get to New Reno the first time to get Golgotha on the world map, leave the car there, return to New Reno on foot and walk to 2nd Street. Now return for the car, and for the rest of the game you can park it on any of the other New Reno maps. (A quicker, if not 100% legit way of accomplishing this is to hit 2 through 4 on the New Reno town map instead of making the round trip.) Unless you really want to see the effects of the grav-plates, I'd say a better car during the game is much preferable to an even better car after the game.
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I think the issue was fixed in both Killap's Fallout 2 patch and the FO2 Restoration Project, too, but don't quote me on that.
 
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