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Originally Posted by t vago

Hypocrite.

What?

Originally Posted by t vago

Riiiiight... I can't do personal attacks, because it might make me not believed because people might tune out,

No, you "can't do personal attacks" because it undermines your attempts to persuade your audience. For someone who professes to understand machinery, you don't seem to have a very good grasp of conversation.

Originally Posted by t vago

hee-hee-tech's

Even this part, the name calling? Seriously? What part of this makes you look like a grown-up?

Originally Posted by t vago

You want to believe hee-hee-tech's implausible claims about his gadget that somehow selectively deactivates cylinders without throwing multiple misfire codes and fuel injector open circuit codes and catalytic converter monitor codes, without throwing the engine computer into open loop,

I don't find it implausible to trick an ECU into not throwing codes. People use computers to trick other computers all the time, it's actually quite a thriving practice, and one of the primary reasons an information security industry exists. You give a machine the data it's expecting, it proceeds as expected.

Originally Posted by t vago

and somehow performs better than all of the cylinder deactivation mechanisms that Chrysler, GM, BMW, Mercedes, and VW have introduced?

Wha? What part of your imagination put these words in my mouth?
No kidding, an aftermarket device that only addresses a portion of the situation isn't going to outperform or even match the performance of a holistically engineered system - I never argued to the contrary. Straw-man arguments don't bolster your credibility either.

Originally Posted by t vago

Fine. You want to waste your own money buying into hee-hee-tech's unworkable device because he says it somehow works? Fine.

I think you might be missing the point here.

Originally Posted by t vago

Just don't expect to find a receptive audience

... you're an interesting fellow to be talking about "expecting to find a receptive audience".

Originally Posted by t vago

And why not answer my questions that I posed to you? Oh, that's right. You're going to use the excuse that I'm "personally attacking" you.

I didn't come into this thread to describe the operation of this product. I came into this thread to learn about the operation of this product.
You might observe that my commentary on this thread has been largely aimed at the fact that it's an unpleasant thread to read because there was more aggression than discussion - and this has clearly not changed.

So I guess we're doomed to another round..