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Old 05-18-2012, 10:09 PM   #10 (permalink)
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None of us are trying to be jerks, Ramman. If you've been here any length of time you'd understand why the skepticism is worth while for us. You can't simply come here and say 'hey everyone, disconnect your evap system to gain 5 mpg' and have everyone just say 'okay brand new guy we don't even know, I'll go do that right now just because you said so'. If that were what we do, everyone here would be adding acetone to our gas, with a pill in our gas tank, and boiling water with hydrogen generators, and everyone would probably be getting worse mileage than their stock vehicles. We take the time to PROVE our modifications here, we don't take anyone's word for it. Even (actually especially) the veteran members here understand the value of testing new modifications and wouldn't make claims without information to back them up. Testing proves what works or not.

If you disconnected your evap system and it worked for you there probably is a reason (creating an unmetered vacuum leak for instance), but that may have more effects than you are aware of. There is a reason the evap system is on a vehicle, and its certainly not to reduce your mileage.

If you have done testing post the info. This is what we ask of everyone.
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