Forget hydrogen. The most eco-friendly thing to happen to cars since the hybrid might just be an after-market device that attaches to your tail pipe and costs a mere $199.
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No. It will plug up you exhaust and mess your engines performance. Stupid gimmick to get money from dumb people.
I was gonna say… I’ve only really ever delt with scooters but the compression from the right exhast makes a huge difference in how the car runs. Most often the scoot is already tuned as best it can when it leaves the factory floor so its only down hill from there.
You can’t increase the MPG once the gas has been burned by attaching some “filter” to the tailpipe. This sounds like the “100 MPG Carburetor” in new clothing.”
I agree, this just sounds like its restricting exhaust which would DECREASE mpg.
By blocking the tail-pipe they’re creating extra back pressure. Extra back pressure makes it hard for the engine to vent exhaust, therefore it can’t get more air into the engine and in order to keep the mixture right it will spray less fuel. So you’ll burn less fuel with each stroke. You’ll also lose power and to make up for that lost power you’ll have to dump more fuel into the engine and you’ll end up right back where you started.
Letting the air flow through easier makes the motor work less and increases fuel mileage. Look into aftermarket free flow style mufflers and aftermarket performance catalytic converters. This device on the other hand is nothing more than a filter and WONT help fuel mileage. It may even hurt it.
And if you eat it, it will increase the size of that particular part of the male body…I call *****. Just another shady-ass company trying to score big bucks off a new eco-friendly fad. That guy in the video even looks like he probably sells/sold eXtenz.The sad thing is, just like penis enlarging pills, this product will sell due to the gullibility of people, and more companies will rush in with more fake crap to get a part of the action.
The stomach?
Carfag here, there’s no way it can increase the volumetric efficiency of an engine without having been specifically designed for that engine. Getting better VE is what carfags spend tons of money at a dyno for.
It could be that the average engine benefits from a little more back pressure from the muffler.
Why not? It’s not like the laws of physics and thermodynamics tell us that restricting expansion will cause something to burn inefficiently. . .Oh, wait.
B-B-but.. Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Laura Dern and Crystal Method believe on it! So it must be true!
Funny how these marvelous mileage things are always invented in some secret place and sold only on late night TV.
How is a filter a new innovation?
“And it increases the volumetric efficiency of the engine”The article had me until that point. You know this thing is a load of crap when it makes up a term like “volumetric efficiency”. A better catalytic converter? Maybe; hell all it needs to do is act like a second one and it will capture additional carbon-monoxide that would have originally escaped. But the vendors had to get greedy and start making claims like “improves gas mileage” and now I’m convinced everything about it is snake oil.
Exactly what I was thinking.Though I think every car should have such a filter on the exhaust pipe by default. They con’t convince me that it will improve fuel efficiency.
How did I manage to make con’t out of can’t?The a and o aren’t even remotely close together.*facepalm at himself*
The term volumetric efficiency has been in use for a long time, they did not make it up. It refers to the ability of an engine to fill the cylinders completely thus running as efficiently as possible. Forced induction (IE turbo or super chargers) increase VE. Adding a filter to the exhaust might filter out a few things but it will certainly be a restriction and having a clogged exhaust most definitely does not improve volumetric efficiency!
Bury as inaccurate.
You’d do about as well to stick you dick in the tail pipe. Any obstruction t your cars exhaust system will decrease efficiency, end of story. Well, if ou’re running a turbo then a little back pressure can aid in spool up, but that’s about it.
I was thinking the same thing. Most people are trying to make less back pressure not increase it.
Sticking a filter on the end of your tailpipe may very well clean the exhaust a bit, but there’s no way it’s gonna make your engine more volumetrically efficient.
I was going to say the same thing. There is a reason those ricers have larger and louder tailpipes.
Because they’re loud. It has little to do with performance.
This is *****. There is no way that you can improve fuel efficiency by adding a restriction to the exhaust.
Who cares if it increases MPG? As long as people use it maybe we can get rid of that brown crap in the air every summer.
You know what, you’re right, lets just stick these filters on our huge SUVs so that we get 5 miles per gallon, but who cares, we filter out half of the bad *****. It’s not like burning twice as much gas will negate any filtering benefit./s
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i wonder how well this would work to get a car to pass smog if it can’t pass smog before hand.
considering it will block the exhaust pipe preventing the technicians from sticking the exhaust sniffer into it… I think they wont be so thrilled!
not to mention likely throw a fault code that will fail your car automatically if it’s a newer model that they actually plug into the emissions computer.
How are they going to stick a probe up the tail pipe with a ***** filter on it? This is all *****.
Also, something like that will auto fail you.
we will all have super powers to fly in the year 2011 anyway, so none of this matters
I agree, either that or the earth will be destroyed a meteorite by the end of 2012.
Not if Hiro recovers his father’s secret formula!
But with our new found super powers we will be able to stop the meteorite
The most eco-friendly mode of transportation is to walk or bike; it makes your butt shrink too.
walking burns to many calories which mean more food production which is bad for the enviroment. just sit on your couch all day and watch opra like the rest of us if you want to help the envorment skinny boy…but really the bicycle is really the most efficient mode of transportation man has ever mass produced.
Sorry, but the bicycle is the SECOND most efficient mode of transportation man has ever mass produced. You’re forgetting this one: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/IT_% …
Sweet! If I combine that with one of these: shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=t … I’ll get 50% more MPG!!!!/facepalm
is that some kind of ***** up cookie cutter?
It’s something that you’re supposed to install in your intake, pre-MAF, and the MAF will normalize all air flow any way, so you would basically be buying a 30$ piece of twisted metal to decrease the efficiency of your car’s cold air intake.
This is just an advert.
Sounds like smoke and mirrors to me.
Snake oil; please bury as spam.
I hate ***** like you who are so negative and don’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt. They should BURY YOU as ***** spam. You dick head. Go ***** yourself you prick.
But does it come in ricer size?
How did this retarded spam get to the first page?
hippies who hate science.