Gas Blades
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Gas Blades
Has anyone tried any of those gas fuel blade things you put into the intake tube to help with gas? Ive seen them on informercials. Am i just being dumb in thinking these might work? Please be gentle! LOL LOL
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From: Gateway to the West
Sounds like snake oil to me. I'd probably try 'em right after I installed those new teflon muffler bearings and synthetic turn signal fluid. But honestly, I haven't seen the product in question but the mere fact that they show up in "paid advertisement programming" is enough to make me skeptical. What are they supposed to do?
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From: TX
that stuff is bs. It's supposed to create kind of a tornado effect , making the air turn and funnel through your intake system better. Just think about this, if the air would really start to turn like a tornado, it would hit the throttle body flap down the line and the whole thing would be over with.
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A guy I work with installed one on his 97 chevy halfton with 350 and the auto trans. He also has duals on this truck as well. He 'claims' he got 5 more miles to the gallon but his trans is also a hunk of junk and never shifts right for him. Take it for what its worth or not. I forgot to mention he was driving about 30 miles one way a day on I-70 to the airport. Now he is barely going 5 miles one way to work.
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From: Wheatland, Mo
Those "Tornado" units are all a bunch of hype, especially if you have EFI. the air fuel mixture is still controlled internally so that won't help. Now if you have a carb, well then,,,,,maybe, and that is a slim, it may help a little.
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Ok, if that is indeed to product in question, they have zero effect on fuel whatsoever... MPFI (Multi-Port Fuel Injection) doesn't even send fuel anywhere but directly into the combustion chambers. The device handles air only. Considering the number of twists and turns the air running through the induction system makes before it reaches the combustion chambers, what makes ANYONE (especially the manufacturer) believe the hocus-pocus that there is some "magical spin" you can put on the air that will improve mileage? If anything, stuffing something into the induction system in the path of the air, slows the air down. Slowing it down gives it time to warm up. Warming the air is the LAST thing you want to do to improve your performance and mileage.
And this claim was made regarding ONE highway trip? Out of curiosity, what was the weather like? A good tail wind will get you that.
On a different topic, where abouts was this? I-70 runs right through town and past the airport here so I am curious.
Originally Posted by alxsnmr
A guy I work with installed one on his 97 chevy halfton with 350 and the auto trans. He also has duals on this truck as well. He 'claims' he got 5 more miles to the gallon but his trans is also a hunk of junk and never shifts right for him. Take it for what its worth or not. I forgot to mention he was driving about 30 miles one way a day on I-70 to the airport. Now he is barely going 5 miles one way to work.
On a different topic, where abouts was this? I-70 runs right through town and past the airport here so I am curious.
