Automotive → Your opinion on the "Tornado fuel saver".

Well my neighbor was telling me that with a Tornado fuel saver that you can install in your air-intake, will give up to 13hp, and up to 15% increase in gas mileage(Depends on vehicle though).
»www.tornadofuelsaver.com
What do you think?
I'm going to do some more research on this.

»www.wcpo.com/wcpo/locals ··· ff5.html»www.mnsu.edu/news/read.p ··· 86498001Do a Google search and there are hundreds of references that debunk this and similar products.

Yea, I'll probably avoid this.I like to do plenty of research before I buy, and these "As seen on TV" things make me very skeptical.

It's a device that allows it's creator to sip Mai Tais on his yacht, will laughing hysterically

And it just doesn't make any sense either...Because the air will be swirling like a tornado down your intake tube, but once it gets to the throttle body, isn't it going to get disrupted by the butterfly?

I put 10 in my car, I got an extra 130 hp...

Maybe we should have MythBusters try that out!

You should have put 10 more in the exhaust would have gotten 260:)

Plus a 150% increase in gas mileage.
Dang, a hybrid truck without the batteries...

Something like this might work on a carborated engine, but I don't see how it could work on a fuel injected vehicle.

A set of underdrive pullies can be purchased for a similar price, and do more for your vehicle's performance.

What bugs me is that "supposed" expect mechanic, Sam Memmolo, from the TV show "Two Guys Garage" on Speed TV is always hawking these things... It ruins his credibility... Plus $70 for a piece of stamped stainless steel?... Gimme a break!!

Air flow through the intake manifold is already turbulent flow... Plus in my Impala there is a thin metal grill just before the throttle body... Any tornado spinning air effect would be messed up when it hits this grill as it passes through the throttle body and into the intake manifold...

Now if I could only find where the muffler bearings are in the car... Someone told me they need to be replaced every 25,000 miles!...

RE: Sam Memmolo. This says all you need to hear about his credibility. He has none.

These things have been showing up for years every time fuel prices take a huge leap. There's nver a shortage of suckers out there.

I heard good things about "The Turbonator" too.

I've removed these things from peoples vehicles that didn't even know they were there after buying the vehicle used and have been told that the car actually runs better. This is a case of a snakeoil salesman hard at work in my opinion. Save your money.

I concur.

Did you see the episode where he says that it comes from the factory, I think, don't quote me on this, it was in the newer Ford truck with the 4.6L..

it is a cheap rippoff. Basiclaly what happenes is the device is made so cheaply that the fins break off and now they have a direct route into your engine. not somethjingi want in my engine besides 5w30. thats what everyones arounds me personal opinion

I installed every fuel saving device ever invented on my car. I save so much fuel now, that it burbles right out the filler pipe.

Just the other day I worked on a 1965 Chevelle, all original, belonging to a old guy that was....uhh, really old.

His complaint:
I can't get it to start in the morning and it just doesn't seem to have any spunk anymore (his words, not mine).

Upon opening the hood I find about 30 clothes pins clipped onto the steel fuel line all the way from the pump to the carb.
One had managed to snap due to the brittle wood from having lived in the heated engine compartment for the last 20+ years.
It was wedged under the high idle cam locking the throttle closed.

Umm, duh, no brainer here.

I removed them all and had him drive the car.
He came back extremely happy and said it hasn't ran that good in years (I managed to stiffle back a laugh wondering how long the thing had been there).

I handed him a plastic baggie containing the clothes pins and told him these won't cure vapor lock on a car with steel line, that *might have worked* way back in the 50's on something with a rubber line (they acted like a check valve). I explained what had happened to cause his malady.

He got pissed....I mean he screamed at me for removing his special fuel saving devices.
He called me all sorts of names and refused to pay (I wasn't going to charge him anyway) and insisted I put them back on his steel fuel line.

I kindly said that I don't subscribe to the 'fuel saving tip of the week club' and told him I wouldn't be the cause of his throttle getting stuck again as it was a safety issue I wasn't prepared to take.
I told him there was no charge, if he wanted to put the things back on himself, fine, just don't expect me to work on his car, or emotional issues, again....'have a nice day'.