The running dog capitalists are so greedy, they don't want you to get better mileage. More gasoline sold = more dirty profits for them. They should be declared enemies of the people and re-educated, and their wealth redistributed to all of us for the common good. Supreme leader Hussein will certainly do that as his first act as president.
Everybody should do what this video says: get some acetone and put it in your tank. The more the better. More is always better. Except money. Less is better.
This was made by the owners of the gasket and o-ring companies who want to destroy your engines and sell more to maximize profits! Its ALL a conspiracy!!! death to business!!!!!!
acetone dissolves your fuel lines and other polymer parts in your fuel system. It also screws with your oxygen sensor. This trick will destroy your car and void your warrenty.
The first things made absolute sense, though the acetone thing is snake oil. Any half way modern car does not have a carburator, it has an injection system, so evaporation properties of the gas are secondary.
One real tip I learned about from a Chevron tanker hauler is to fill up at the coldest part of the day. When fuel is heated it expands slightly, as does any air in the pump lines. Fill up when it's cold and you end up actually getting your money's worth.
No, seriously.
Or is trying to put real stuff on Glumbert as useful as lipstick on canuck?
Guess I'll stick to my magnetic fuel line device, coupled with my tornado vortex producing intake gizmo, helium in my tires, with the additional anti drag, side mirror and roof rack removal....the stripping off of all additional unneeded weight like...spare tire, jack, back seats, passenger seat, hubcaps, every other nut and bolt, exhaust system after the manifold, interior panels and headliner, drill holes in the frame to remove excess metal, glass replacement with duck tape and plastic sheeting....
All jokes aside, anyone ever notice the increase in performance when it's wet outside? I must get another 50 hp!
I remember back in the days of the muscle car we had a water misting air intake gizmo that worked real good, add to that a fuel line cooler, a coffee can with copper fuel line coiled up in it, all sitting in ice you had to reload every half hour or so.....
There are water injection kits still today. Doesn't help with gas millage but helps with knock. Artificially increases the octane, makes the fuel burn more controlled and steam cleans the inside of the engine :). Great for turbo and supercharged cars. Now people in the performance community have been using E85, although I have to tune my car to dump 30% more fuel.
Most of this stuff, like keeping your car well-maintained, are common sense. Some of it, like not carrying a spare tyre, could well be illegal outside the USA. Some bits, like the acetone, are plain stupid. He also missed out the obvious bit: don't buy a stupid big, heavy gas-guzzling car in the first place. 17mpg? Jesus, even given that that's a US gallon as opposed to the ones I'm used to, that's bloody disgraceful; manufacturers just shouldn't be allowed to sell a POS like that.
No, he is not joking. You can increase the power output of older engines by injecting water. This cools down the intake air which results in a higher temperature differential for the combustion and the water has a high expansion factor which adds to the resultant combustion gas volume.
Water injection has been used by some US warplanes in WWII for emergency power, other systems worked with nitro or hydrazine injection.
Either method is pretty rough on the engine.
None of these would work well on a state of the art engine (so not too much to worry when driving a US car...). If you have a high pressure injection system on a turbo charged engine you can easily wreck the engine by adding water without ever seeing any power increase.
In my previous life as an aircraft mechanic, I worked on DC6's for a couple years in the 80's. They used water injection for added power/inhibition of pre-ignition for takeoff. But they were supercharged, adding 60 inches of mercury of boost for takeoff.
The DC-6 does not exactly have a state of the art engine. What I was refering to are really modern engines, the kind you find in European and Japanese cars.
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