Are these 2 products for real? I find them very very hard to believe. But I still wonder! anyone seen them "really" tested? I don't believe the HP gains but hek, anyway to save gas this summer is a good way with prices still rising.



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1992 RS 3.1
1985 POS (SC 2.8 CFI)

[This message has been edited by auxout (edited May 01, 2001).]

 

This has been tossed around a lot in the past and the consensus is save your money.

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88 IROC convertible
-=ICON Motorsports=-

 

I see that you found those in a JC Whitney catalog. My motto:

If it's from JC Whitney, it's probably crap.

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1987 Camaro Sport Coupe LG4
700R4 with 2.73 open rear
Hypertech chip, 180* stat
L69 Dual snorkel air cleaner with K&N air filter
CK rods with B hanger
Hooker catback
Pioneer DEH-P4000, Pioneer speakers front/back

 

Aaron87SC is right on. JC Whitney is the poor mans Summit Racing. I don't believe any of the claims that they make. They don't race, have a dyno or have anyway to test these products like Summit and Jeg's. Gas is rising so save your money.

 

If any thing it will clog your intake dont bother buying it.

 

buttt duuuudes.
its a tornnnado...
Looks like a flat piece a metal covering you tbi from here.
dont knock jc whittney. i found my ooga horn from them...lol.....oooooooga.
its a tornad-- *fart* wow secondary impellors, thatll help the engine too!

i can sell that in jc whittney


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91 FireBird 305 V-8
no true mods,
ghetto rigged cold air intake,
People dont have a soul, its just something parents made up to frighten little children, like the boogie man, or micheal jackson..."

GheTTo Riggers INC.
We Make Mcgyver look Like Crap

 

ok. my dumbA$$ friend bought one of these for his IROC, he paid an extra $20 for shipping, and he paid like $60 for the piece, it turned out to be a 22 gauge peice of scrap steel bent and cut so there were the angles inside (propellers) and it had the name of the company scratched in.. i bet it cost them $.15 to make. it was soo funny. he sent it back because we all made fun of him. and he didnt see a real increase in power!

so dont do it.. its crap!

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Jarrad
1990 IROC-Z L98 350 TPI
TH-700R4
G92- 7.5" 10 Bolt 3.23gears
Bright Red Hardtop/ Grey Custom Interior
5,507 IROC's Hardtops/Ttops; 2,415 5.7L IROC's Produced in 1990

DAILY DRIVER: 1991 S10 2.5L/5SPD WITH CAMARO RIMS

 

"There is a sucker born every minute."
-P.T. Barnum

Don't be a sucker. Neither of these do anything but make you $100 poorer.

 

yeah i wasn't planning on putting down 60 for a piece of metal that reminds me of a pinwheel, I just found them interesting, and wondered if anyone had seem some 'real tests' of the products, like by someone who isn't trying to sell them lol

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1992 RS 3.1
1985 POS (SC 2.8 CFI)

 

I like the cow magnet one myself.

 

"Car and Driver" did a test on that Tornado crap a few years back. If I remember correctly, all of the test vehicles(there were 3) lost power and 2 of them had decreased fuel economy.

I'm surprised that no government consumer protection agency has shut these shysters down yet.

 

I saw the infomercial last night for that stupid tornado.. I really hate infomercials like that.. They had testimonials like a lady with a 4cyl saturn saying "The gas milage is much better and also I am one of the fastest cars on the road now, it really made an incredible difference".. They just make me sick..

Then they take (i guess it was a chevy malibu?) a car over to their so called "dyno machine" (that has 2 meters and goes up to 250 hp? What the hell, like no car is faster than 250 hp???) . At first it reads 202 hp.. Then they slap in the miracle tornado that "spins the air to get a better fuel/air mixture".. What do you know, it reads 220 hp. 18 hp from this? Yeah, right.

None of these gimmicks really work, the most they will do is make you psycologically think that you've done something to better your gas milage.

 

They don't make any product they sell so I wouldn't make comments like that, it shows you assume too much and everyone knows what that means. JC Whitney is a re-seller, all the stuff in there are ads. If it sounds too good to be true it probally is.

BTW, I have bought carpet from them, excellant product.



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383 Speed-O-Motive Crate Engine, Raptor 700R4 Tranmission, Trick Flow Twisted Wedge G2's, 58mm Accel TB, 3.73 Auburn Pro, SLP Cold Air Induction and Headers, Hooker Cat-back, Serpentine Belt Setup, Dual IROC Fans, Jamex springs, 16" IROC Rims, 36mm/24mm Sway Bars, Global West Steering Brace. Hotchkis Rear LCA's,Panhard Bar and SFC's.
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