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VK6BE > CARS 04.07.08 14:57l 42 Lines 2035 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: VK6BE@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
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Yeah Wassa, I can remember at least two claims made many years ago spread
over some years about a magical device which you connected to your car
engine carburetion system. You filled it with water and water was injected
into the manifold with the fuel from the carby.It did all sorts of magical
things such as improving the antiknock properties of the fuel (petrol),
increased fuel mpg, cleaned your engine and brewed you a cup of tea every
100 miles (sorry! that bit is not true!)
The RAC at the time tested it and proclaimed it as useless. It did not
(1) Improve fuel mileage per gallon
(2) It had no anti-knock properties.
(3) It was a lemon the only benefit of which went into the inventor and
producers' pockets.
Noteworthy is the fact that my 1928 four cylinder A Model did about 20
m.p.g. and the 1929 Chev. did even less. Today my 4.1 litre 6 cyl. Falcon
does the equivalent of about 30 m.p.g or better on petrol and about the
equivalent of 25 mpg on LPG (12 to 13 L per 100km for LPG). My son's later
model does much better than that at about 8.5 l per 100 km. That is the
equivalent of 35 mpg. No gadgets, no water, just better computerised
engine design and management and fuel injection rather than a
carburettor.
Add to that that we decoked our engines and ground the valves about every
10 000 miles. My Falcon has done 160 000 km (100 000 miles) with NO
decoking, NO valvegrinding, no work on the engine, and no sign of any loss
of engine performance. Someone is doing something right without magical
devices!!
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
> Out of them came the frauds claiming if you put some device on the
> carb it would improve mileage only I couldn't figure out why spinning the
> air flow would do this. (;->) To this day they persist and occasionaly
> the "Tornado" shows up in late night TV commercials for sleepy heads and
> drunks to call in and grab their checkbooks. Hmmm, what do you do when
> you find out you've installed it on an EFI engine??? <hic>
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