Tornado Booster?

[Ubel Feuer]

Is this for real or the typical as-seen-on-tv crap? It's saying you'll get 4-13 HP gains and increase mileage by up to 29%.

http://www.autopartswarehouse.....html

[SixGuns]

A buddy of mine years ago had one of them on his 4 banger S-10 and he swore he got a couple more mpg's. But their claim that you get "more air" is crap - swirling the air isn't going to act like a mini-compressor and force air into the combustion chambers. 3,500 cc's of displacement is exactly that - you won't get any more cubes into the cylinders in a naturally aspirated engine without introducing forced induction. They also throw in a blurb about "superior fuel atomization" or some nonsense to that effect - all good and fine with carbs or even throttle body injection. But with EFI, that theory has no bearing, as the fuel comes in after the air is already in the cylinder. So, I'm sure someone else will have a different take on it, but, as far as I'm concerned, it's one of those things that you don't buy into. I would be more inclined to pay my hard-earned 150 bucks on a set of Pulstar plugs and gamble on hp/tq/mpg numbers with that...at least I can kinda hope for results there, as their idea seems rather credible.

[W O T]

Phony, gay, doesnt work. Get a tune up, youll gain more for the money spent

[korbeano89]

what dose a tune up consist of?

[sicwitit]

An ECU tune could net you 10hp, raise speed limiter, and make all mods previously installed function at 100% their capiblilty. look at it like this, If you install a K&N intake system, you are bringing in more air into your intake system, naturally your engine isn't tunned to run with this new part. Now you will gain a few ponies sure, you made the air cooler/denser, but this will also cause the engine to run ever so slightly lean. If your ecu is tunned to use the cooler/denser air, it will return to a stoichiometric ratio, thus creating maximum efficency. So if you add a intake, and call it a day, your car might be utilizing the new intake at 90% of the new intakes capibility. But there is always that extra 10% that could be chased.

and when you start adding the mods, that % goes up and up. I've seen some cars drive into a shop making 600+hp, and leave 4 hrs later pushing over 750hp, from just dyno tunning. Thats a big increase from just moving numbers around on a laptop.

[Ubel Feuer]

Is that something you'd go to the dealer for or a specific shop?

[UndeGuy]

Is this for real or the typical as-seen-on-tv crap? It's saying you'll get 4-13 HP gains and increase mileage by up to 29%.

http://www.autopartswarehouse.....html

My friend actually bought one of these for his 2001 PF... he took it off shortly after.

[sicwitit]

Is that something you'd go to the dealer for or a specific shop?

you'd have to send your factory ECU off to Jet, or someone else that tunes ECU's. I know there are a couple others, I can't remember their name at the moment though.

These tornado things are a gimmic, and have no effictiveness on EFI applications. I wish I had thought of it 30 yrs ago when more people had carbs. better yet, I wish I had thought up the Snuggie, that guy is a millionare now, and all he did was reverse a robe, make it bigger, use blanket matterial, and boom, over night millionare!

[fueler]

this is like that pad that you strap onto your belly and it has electrodes and you shock yourself to get a workout. Youll probably hurt yourself before you get abs of steel - just like the tornado will likely hurt your MPG before it helps anything.