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I was reading this very thread when I scrolled to the bottom of the page and saw the add for the turbonator - a hair dryer you bolt in under your hood for 69.95 and works like a supercharger. Will this madness ever end?
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From: Fraziers Bottom, WV
My wife bought a Chev... K1500 and it has one installed, it must have needed all the help it could get. The only thing I can tell about it is: well made and easy to install.
After driving the truck for a couple of months and removed it: NO CHANGE in MPG.
SNAKE OIL and one?
After driving the truck for a couple of months and removed it: NO CHANGE in MPG.
SNAKE OIL and one?
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From: ohio
If this thing worked the oil companys would buy it, and we would never see it.
Just my .02 worth.
Just my .02 worth.
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Originally Posted by tomdoggie
If this thing worked the oil companys would buy it, and we would never see it.
Just my .02 worth.
Just my .02 worth.
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From: South Jersey
Because fuel injection never saved a drop of fuel. I got an OPEC built 88 Bronco that's FI that kind of proves that point. Fi was/is and always be "just" another way to get fuel to the cylinders. Yes, at rpms less than 12-1500 FI is more efficent, but once you pour the coal to the engine they burn the same fuel a carbed engine does.
On the flip side about conspiracy theroys I agree. Anyone remember the carburator that got 100mpg that the oil companies snatched off the market??
On the flip side about conspiracy theroys I agree. Anyone remember the carburator that got 100mpg that the oil companies snatched off the market??
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Come on dunk...you don't really believe that old "100 mpg" carburator story do you? Trust me, if there were such a thing, then whomever invented it would be selling and making billions of dollars with it. There is no way the "oil companies" could completely remove a product like that from getting to the market place....never.
