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RE: Tornado air swirling thingies

To: "Drew Rogge" <drew@pixar.com>, <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Tornado air swirling thingies
From: "Mullen, Tim \(IIS\)" <Tim.Mullen@ngc.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:29:36 -0500

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Drew Rogge wrote:
>
> <...> one of those "Tornado" vortex generators which go in 
> a car's intake system. Does anyone have any experience with 
> one of these? Did it actually increase your gas mileage?


There are results all over the internet.  They are really excellent at
reducing the weight of your wallet.  Other than that, actually
performance figures indicate that in some cases they do absolute nothing
for the performance of mileage.  In other cases, they reduce the
performance and/or mileage (they make a fairly good obstruction of the
intake tract...

Products of this type are usually called "Snake Oil"...

Tim Mullen




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