fuel genie, more power? Options

[motorpants]

bought this vortex plastic gizmo for my truck - I'll save 100Kms per tank (60miles?) on a 2000 Xterra and it do notice I have more jam at the pedal - but the guy discovered the fuel savings thing as a side line to finding more power for a carbed corvette dragster

this 10 cents worth of plastic (mine was $80 Canadian) sits in the air intake between the filter and top end of the motor - but the bloddy thing works - I'll get my money back in 3 fillups

I have PMO's on an early 911 and I am thinking about buying 6 of these things

anyway more of a comment than anything - with the price of gas these days...

josh

[JPB]

I don't know if you have an FI or carb setup but, lessening the air flow through your carb will decrease the ventury effect on your carb thus using less fuel. You might be even runnig lean and thus running your engine hotter. If you have an FI system, then the fuel will keep spraying into your cylindwers thus running rich due to the lack of air because of the restriction from the foreign object. What is your temp guage reading? The so called vortex effect does not help atomize the fuel since a FI is designed to do that. In a carb, the more the fuel air mixture gets banged up in the intake and gets heated the better it burns. This vortex like disturbance is not a good thing for an internal combustion engine. Its not a turbine and could not increase airflow to the engine which in itself would not be a good thing since you would need to adjust for a richer fuel mixture if extra air is added to the mix and your cam would not function efficiently since the grind would not hold probably long enough for the denser gas as well as the extra exhaust it would generate. If you are runnig hoter, you are burning up your engine, if you are runnuig colder, you are not using your fuel efficiently. Remember the 180F rule.

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