All BullS**t Right?

[Jesterarts]

Hey,

Was bored today n decided to surf ebay abit...

It was amazing how much cheap n nasty "mods" there are out there claiming better fuel economy and power increases:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/FORCE-FLOW-FU...QQcmdZViewItem

WTF is that?!? I don't understand how putting a free-spinning fan in the intake pipe that air going into the engine has to spin is gonna give u power n fuel economy! Its a restriction in the intake...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Electric-Inta...QQcmdZViewItem

An electric supercharger???? Adding 2psi? And i recon there are people out there falling for it!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/15BHP-Power-M...QQcmdZViewItem

Those are cute! a resistor maybe worth 2 bux from tandy put into a plastic casing an BOOM!! 15bhp!! HAHAHAHA, One of my mates got one of these... i laughed so so hard at him...
34bux wasted and decreased fuel economy.... NICE!
That place also sells a "diesel" version... 25bhp gained... lol


Anyone else seen other "cheap and nasty" powergain products??

[craig_stato]

feel free to call me a dumb ass!!
i actually fell for one of these "mods"
i got one of those force fans, from auto barn, cost me 65 bucks!!
needless to say it was the biggest waste of money ever! ended up giving it away.
and just for the record.....it made no difference, as i suspected.

[les82]

apparently those resistor things do work they do use more fuel though my mate did it to his vt SS and he reckons it worked

[vt1538]

apparently those resistor things do work they do use more fuel though my mate did it to his vt SS and he reckons it worked

The ecm will eventually trim out any excess fuel & return the car back to normal. Those things arent worth a pinch of sh1t.

[Jesterarts]

damn it! lol i was gonna say that...

Yeah, the engine will detect the engine is running too rich and eventually adjust it back to a normal ratio...

Then once u take the thing out after realising its a pos... ur engine is gonna be running lean instead until it readjusts again!

[TheForgotten]

there was one a while back, which I completely cut to pieces on here, basically it was complete BS. it was supposed to react with the fuel or something, but on the install diagram, it went on the aircon line..... it never actually mentioned how or why it worked, and it said in the ad something like "If you can't find the answer to your question, please don't message me"

[pow3rslave]

i saw one that the first one reminded me of, it was a fan shape that went into the intake pipe to create a vortex of swirling air that somehow gave your car super powers or the ability to drive sideways through time*

*i forget what it was supposed to do exactly.

[14secvp]

there was one a while back, which I completely cut to pieces on here, basically it was complete BS. it was supposed to react with the fuel or something, but on the install diagram, it went on the aircon line..... it never actually mentioned how or why it worked, and it said in the ad something like "If you can't find the answer to your question, please don't message me"

sounds like some sort of fuel cooler this one could actually work if the aircon was on and the aircon pipe got cold was it some sort of pipe that the fuel line went into and out of

[Bravotwozero]

there was one a while back, which I completely cut to pieces on here, basically it was complete BS. it was supposed to react with the fuel or something, but on the install diagram, it went on the aircon line..... it never actually mentioned how or why it worked, and it said in the ad something like "If you can't find the answer to your question, please don't message me"

Gee wouldn't be Brockie's polariser now would it?

[TheForgotten]

wouldn't know the polarizer if ya threw it at me head.
nah not a cooler, it only had one inlet and one outlet, going on the aircon line

[Bravotwozero]

wouldn't know the polarizer if ya threw it at me head.
nah not a cooler, it only had one inlet and one outlet, going on the aircon line

You don't know about the Polarizer?

Brock consulted ahealth practitioner in 1987. He gave up alcohol and cigarettes, and became a vegan. Brock began publicly supporting and, eventually, began to fit to all Holden Dealer Team specials a device called the Energy Polarizer containing crystals and magnets that, he said would do something to the molecular structure in the fuel for better performance.

The overwhelming majority of the Australian motoring community regarded the device as pseudoscience. Brock also recommended tyre pressures of 22psi (150kPa) for his polariser-equipped vehicles, a level which is regarded as very low!. Holden, fearing the consequences of being associated with the device and a resulting breakdown in communications over Brock's plans for new models, cut ties with Brock and set up an alternative racing/modification operation, Holden Special Vehicles.

[4eyedperson]

Wasnt really a power mod... But i bought on of those Turbo whistlers for the exhaust... HA HA HA

didnt make any noise at all. And then fell off while i was driving. Cost me 30 bucks to.

[253@7k]

didnt make any noise at all. And then fell off while i was driving.

Hahahahahaha, thats the funniest thing i've ever heard.

Go the polariser though. Who could live without one?

[Patrio7]

yada yada yada

a device called the Energy Polarizer containing crystals and magnets that, he said would do something to the molecular structure in the fuel for better performance.

yada yada yada

acctually i thought it was a ' aligned ' magnet thing in the wheels....

[STEALTHY™]

yeah i was told similar, that it was to magnetise the body or something


Also the cooling fuel thing has been proven to work, but for the money it costs, the the better economy you get, isn't really worth it.

[sganro]

i saw one that the first one reminded me of, it was a fan shape that went into the intake pipe to create a vortex of swirling air that somehow gave your car super powers or the ability to drive sideways through time*

*i forget what it was supposed to do exactly.

the bloke i bought my VS off had one of them in it. And i must say my car didnt seem to have the super powers that it was meant to have. Unless i was doing it wrong......

Needless to say it got taken out as soon as i found it

[Troy711]

i did a thread on here about 2 years ago with all different ebay power mods. with all of them combined it turned a stock ecotec into a v8 killer!

ZooM zOOm!

[VTPREDATOR]

i did a thread on here about 2 years ago with all different ebay power mods. with all of them combined it turned a stock ecotec into a v8 killer!

ZooM zOOm!

lol, must try them all.

[Jesterarts]

So it killed your morning vitamin juice... damn... lol

Sorry, lame reference to that v8 juice stuff.... im tired n hung over lol

[PRH]

Just imagine if ya put all this things on ya car ya would need to drive round with the fuel cap off so the tank wont explode with all the fuel that is getting returned to the tank
Phillip

[pumba]

amate if mine had one of those electronic supercharger things lol ment to give u an extra 2hp... what a crock of **** it is. u can run a car on the dno and get 200hp, then run it the next day on the same dyno and get 202hp... i bet thats how they got the extra 2hp from it lol

i bought a memcal off ebay a while ago... was ment to be better then a hsv memcal and i didnt need the knock sensor... it was tuned for a 5.0Ltr with 70mm T/B, twin 2 1/2" exhaust, extractors and hsv style airbox... i had all that...

needless to say, my car was gettin beaten by stock V6's . so that came out in no time at all and the standard memcal has been in there ever since.

stuff like that, i wouldnt waste the time or money buying off ebay. its all full of ****