increased gas mileage?

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Yes. If you cut up a soup can with tin snips it will increase your mileage by 30% and decrease US comsumption of oil by millions of barrels a day leading to a pull out of US troops from the Mid-east, lions laying down with lambs, a reversal of global warming and everlasting world peace. Send me your money and I'll make you one when I'm done with my beer :D
 
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macklow

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Is it time to start looking for the prolong and slick50 infomercials again?

I would think that with the desire for decreased fuel consumption, those guys would be doing a new marketing blitz. Surely there must be a new crop of consumers ready to buy into their fantasy.
 
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... if only you pour sand in your oil pan :)

but, seriously - how can one verify that Slick 50, or Prolong, or other stuff works, short of disassembling two engines with similar history of maintenance, one with and one without the stuff, side by side?
 
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p m said:
but, seriously - how can one verify that Slick 50, or Prolong, or other stuff works, short of disassembling two engines with similar history of maintenance, one with and one without the stuff, side by side?
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All you need are customers who don't need scientific evidence in order to make a purchase.

Otherwise how would the cosmetics companies sell their anti-wrinkle products?
 
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p m said:
... if only you pour sand in your oil pan :)

but, seriously - how can one verify that Slick 50, or Prolong, or other stuff works, short of disassembling two engines with similar history of maintenance, one with and one without the stuff, side by side?
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I have watched my own car(former car) on a dyno running WOT making 196hp at the rear wheels and pored in 1 bottle of prolong and watched the same dyno at the same moment move up to 205hp!...about a 5% increase

I was trying to prove someone wrong...but I was wrong.

how long did it effect the HP...no idea

but the stuff does work and its just the tip of the iceberg

the new Nano lubricant technology that is just around the corner will make huge leaps in the additive world

hate to be bait here...but the originale tornado in some applications does add power because it modifies the intake charge in very poorly designed systems.

is it worth anything?...not in my book
 
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well theres alot of info out there to read

third listing on google:

Nano-lubricant Could Mean No More Oil Changes
Lubricant to be based on spherical inorganic nanoparticles
By Bob Rosenbaum

Imagine buying a new car and driving it for 10 years without once taking it for an oil-and-lube job. The engine won't even have a dipstick to check the oil. That's what the future holds if Rehovot-based ApNano Materials succeeds in marketing NanoLub.

NanoLub is the world's first synthetic lubricant to be based on spherical inorganic nanoparticles. As with other lubricants, its job is to reduce wear and friction between moving objects (like engine parts), enabling longer operation and higher efficiency. NanoLub dramatically outperforms every known commercial solid lubricant marketed today.

Kinda cool stuff :D

should change things to reduce friction to near zero...no need for cooling as we know it...ect ect

hard to say where it will take us

I know of a shop testing additives now outa Russia using this technology,they report pretty big gains.
 
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mainerova

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If have been told the tornado does work power and gas mileage alot on small 4 cylinder cars, but beleive that the power and mileage go proportionaly down steeply as engines get bigger....
 
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MUSKYMAN said:
I know of a shop testing additives now outa Russia using this technology,they report pretty big gains.
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Thom, nearly every car owner I knew in Russia who did his own maintenance would bet his limb that an additive X or Y did wonders. Given with the fact that a Russian-made car with 60kmi on the clock was considered a goner...

I understand there's a good physics and chemistry behind some of the lubricant additives (my grandfather wrote a few books on engine wear and tribology). But the absense of endorsement from most car manufacturers somewhat cools off my enthusiasm.
 
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