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Old 11-17-2009, 10:12 PM   #30 (permalink)
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There have been a couple sucessfull (as tested by the EPA) fuel magnet/dissimilar metal jobbers like the vitalizer. (Before flaming read the papers on the thing, it did very slightly improve FE but not enough to cover its cost)

The fuel economy improvement was a whopping 1% meaning you better not spend very much on a magnet.
I wish I had the reference, but I remember reading that in lab settings it works, but only *if* you have a huge magnet, maybe MRI style. I think that's the "kernel of truth" to the fuel magnet thing.

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