35mpg challenge

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Old 04-01-2009 | 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken1997TL
Is it called the Tornado or Turbonator?
We sell those pieces of crap, I can't believe people pay $60+ for about 60 cents of metal in a shiny red box. My old manager tried it on his Nissan Xterra for the hell of it and noticed no difference in his mileage. He returned it after about a month of "field testing".
Old 04-02-2009 | 03:20 AM
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the Tornado does work in certain cars- lets not bash a product totally!
but wont work with VTEC or Vortec engines, which have a built in system that delays the 2nd intake valve opening slightly- creating a tornado like vortex in the airflow swirl to better mix the air/fuel for max combustion

on my old beater carb'ed chevy truck - tornado made the differance when pulling trailer uphill and reduced that chevy v8 hesitation off the line
on the maxima it was good for 2mpg
on the TL- it went back to the store after my own field testing~

Removed the resonator box and installed a K&N instead, my cheap CAI
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