Tornado Fuel Saver

[Accord9404]

Has anybody installed this device in their car and does it work like they said it does?
Thanks,
Matt

[Ganz]

Have not bothered because there are no miracle fuel savers out there. There is only so much energy (BTUs) in a gallon of gas, and you have a fixed amount of mass to use. The theoretical efficiency of any internal combustion engine is limited to the perfect Carnot value: Carnot Cycle (http://www.chem.arizona.edu/~salzmanr/480a/480ants/carnot/carnot.html) . The gist of which is the absolute possible efficiency is related to the difference between combustion temperature and environemental temperature. With todays common engine materials, the best a "perfectly" efficient engine could do is less than 40%. If memory serve me correctly, the best engines are in the 10% range. The only way to improve efficiency is lower the environment (not possible) or raise the combustion temperature. While raising the temperature, you have to insulate the engine to keep more heat in and lose less to the environment. This is why you see experimentation with ceramics as a future material.

[benjamming]

The following comments are from another forum:

Placing it after the MAF sensor would help a little as the MAF screen straightens the air flow although a block of wood placed in the intake, or any other restriction for that matter, would have the same effect.

How can a fan cause the air to spin, even after getting sucked into a plenum and divded up into 4 or 6 parts? Do you really think the air is still spinning after it hits the TB, runners, valves?
Seems like a restriction to me.

The BEST way to utilize the Tornado principal is to simply drive your car/truck directly into the path of an F5 tornado. Vehicle speeds of up to 250 mph have been achieved by using such revolutionary technology! And no underhood modifications are required, with no warranty compliance issues for that matter.