01-12-2011, 06:11 PM
|
#91 (permalink)
|
EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: binghamton,ny
Posts: 108
Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
Solar guy, There is a member trying to test these magnets with a car similar to mine. Hopefully He can complete a satisfactory test.
|
|
|
Today
|
|
|
Other popular topics in this forum...
|
|
|
01-12-2011, 07:42 PM
|
#92 (permalink)
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 513
Thanks: 2
Thanked 101 Times in 74 Posts
|
you are lying , plain and simple
lets call a pig a pig
you are lying -
i live a few hours away -
but i will drive to Binghamton NY with my Geo Metro ,
i have been logging fuel economy for close to 30k miles on this car so i have a feeling any improvement will show on just the fuel log
but
i also will log the trip to and the trip home , same day same fuel same everything
only difference will be your
HOAX , installed on my car for the trip back
i will upload logged trip data showing speed rpm fuel trims temperature ....
CALCULATED LOAD and
the MPGuino trip MPG for both trips .
ON TWO SUBSEQUENT WEEK ENDS one i pick up your hoax , uninstall it from you car and install it on mine
2nd return and uninstall it from my car and re install it on yours .
so lying sack of pooh - do you accept ?
i have the tools , i have the software s , i have the knowledge.
i eagerly await your reply
Quote:
Originally Posted by hondo434
Solar guy, There is a member trying to test these magnets with a car similar to mine. Hopefully He can complete a satisfactory test.
|
Last edited by mwebb; 01-12-2011 at 07:46 PM..
Reason: CALCULATED LOAD
|
|
|
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to mwebb For This Useful Post:
|
|
01-15-2011, 12:40 PM
|
#93 (permalink)
|
lurker's apprentice
Join Date: May 2008
Location: the Perimeter
Posts: 942
PlainJane - '12 Toyota Tacoma Base 4WD Access Cab 90 day: 20.98 mpg (US)
Thanks: 504
Thanked 226 Times in 173 Posts
|
How about magnetized acetone? I'd try it but I'm afraid it might make turn into a zombie.
My favorite quote:
Quote:
Does your car have an ECU? If not don't expect any milage gain. The magnets should still clean the system.
|
I don't know about you, but I have been around long enough, and lived through enough gasoline shortages, to know that magnets were being touted as fuel saving devices long before there were ECU's. Long before digital computers, in fact.
That reminds me. When I used to fix Divco milk delivery trucks, a couple of the guys clipped wooden clothespins to the fuel lines. Claimed they prevented vapor lock, improved performance, and gave them better gas mileage. (The delivery guys paid for their own gas so they were always trying to maximize mileage.) Maybe wooden clothespins will be the next big thing!
Last edited by wdb; 01-15-2011 at 12:49 PM..
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to wdb For This Useful Post:
|
|
01-15-2011, 02:31 PM
|
#94 (permalink)
|
EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: up north
Posts: 196
Thanks: 4
Thanked 34 Times in 26 Posts
|
OK then,
Is there a date set?
Finest regards,
troy
__________________
2004 VW TDI PD on bio
want to build 150 mpg diesel streamliner.
|
|
|
01-15-2011, 04:00 PM
|
#95 (permalink)
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 1,300
Thanks: 315
Thanked 179 Times in 138 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by wdb
How about magnetized acetone? I'd try it but I'm afraid it might make turn into a zombie.
I don't know about you, but I have been around long enough, and lived through enough gasoline shortages, to know that magnets were being touted as fuel saving devices long before there were ECU's. Long before digital computers, in fact.
|
I like the bit about "cleaning the system".
__________________
I'm not coasting, I'm shifting slowly.
|
|
|
01-15-2011, 07:01 PM
|
#96 (permalink)
|
...beats walking...
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: .
Posts: 6,190
Thanks: 179
Thanked 1,525 Times in 1,126 Posts
|
...if those magnets don't 'pan-out' remember you can always use them to hunt for meteoroids on your property...probably with BETTER success too.
|
|
|
01-15-2011, 07:39 PM
|
#97 (permalink)
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 332
Thanks: 16
Thanked 79 Times in 54 Posts
|
Magnetise the wooden clothespegs, that seems the obvious next step.
That's putting it simply. In fact, one would use a magnet to realign the molecules of the clothespeg.
|
|
|
01-15-2011, 08:12 PM
|
#98 (permalink)
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 397
Thanks: 44
Thanked 68 Times in 45 Posts
|
I use magnets on my truck.
I put a couple rare earth magnets on the oil filter, the theory being that they may hold any errant metal particles which somehow slip past the filter.
I realize that is pretty unlikely, but I had magnets I wasn't using for anything else, and I can't imagine how it could hurt.
And as a bonus, I noticed a 1000% mpg increase as soon as I did it!!
(ok, maybe not that last part)
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
A few months ago I returned home just as my neighbor pulled into his driveway. It was cold (around freezing) with some rain and sleet, and he yells to me: You rode your bike? In this weather?!?
So the other day we both returned home at the same time again, only now the weather is warm, sunny, with no wind. And I yell to him: You took the car? In this weather?!?
|
|
|
|
01-15-2011, 08:43 PM
|
#99 (permalink)
|
Grasshopper
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Hawaii
Posts: 964
Thanks: 25
Thanked 30 Times in 25 Posts
|
i put my magnets on my bottom of my oil pan by the drain
next time i do an oil change, ill pull the drain and then the magnets
and hopefully any crud gets flushed out
|
|
|
01-16-2011, 01:09 AM
|
#100 (permalink)
|
Deadly Efficient
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Goshen, Indiana
Posts: 1,234
Thanks: 134
Thanked 176 Times in 91 Posts
|
I put magnets all over my refrigerator. It hasn't burned a bit of gasoline since.
BTW, what about that promised road trip in August? Two years later, and still no ABA testing? Ha ha ha!
__________________
-Terry
|
|
|
|