fuel additives
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Melting Slicks
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fuel additives
Does anyone use additives? I'm interested in fuel efficiency and pollution control.
Has anyone tried this stuff?
http://www.hotcatalyst.com/resources/empinfo.htm
Has anyone tried this stuff?
http://www.hotcatalyst.com/resources/empinfo.htm
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I agree, Snake Oil. Best case scenario is you wasted your money and just fouled your spark plugs. Worst case is causing engine damage.
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Melting Slicks
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Well, this brings up a nasty question. How do you reduce pollution output without robbing lots of hp, on a pre 74 car? Is converting to computer control and FI the only effective way?
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i couldnt care a bit about the environment, i have a small block that is going to make HP at the cost of the environment, and thats how i want it. Kalifornia lets NASTY dump trucks, school buses, and Deisels run the streets but yet the tell us "uh, well your going to have to get your 76 and up corvettes and anything for that matter, smogged until you die" wow....but they can let all these desiel p.o.s run the streets and nearly choke me out of my vehicle when they pull up to me and hit the gas....SCREW EMISSIONS. i make more emissions from burping and farting then my vette is going to make when i get the motor back in. Dont worry about emissions, no matter how hard you work to make your car better for the air, there are thousand of companies screwing the air up and paying big fines and not giving a rip. nothing we can do to change it, so go witht he flow. As far as fuel efficiency goes, just use Seafoam if your vette runs rough, now that stuff DOES work.
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damn...i gotta think up something wth this environmental crap sos i can make a mint like all those ******* are doing.....bet they dont have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning and go to work like i do
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ive always been told that on an original motor that used lead, theres a chance of ripping the valve heads to shreads with out it. about 50% of the people say it will happen, the other 50% says it wont.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
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i couldnt care a bit about the environment, i have a small block that is going to make HP at the cost of the environment, and thats how i want it. Kalifornia lets NASTY dump trucks, school buses, and Deisels run the streets but yet the tell us "uh, well your going to have to get your 76 and up corvettes and anything for that matter, smogged until you die" wow....but they can let all these desiel p.o.s run the streets and nearly choke me out of my vehicle when they pull up to me and hit the gas....SCREW EMISSIONS. i make more emissions from burping and farting then my vette is going to make when i get the motor back in. Dont worry about emissions, no matter how hard you work to make your car better for the air, there are thousand of companies screwing the air up and paying big fines and not giving a rip. nothing we can do to change it, so go witht he flow. As far as fuel efficiency goes, just use Seafoam if your vette runs rough, now that stuff DOES work.
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Does anyone use additives? I'm interested in fuel efficiency and pollution control.
Has anyone tried this stuff?
http://www.hotcatalyst.com/resources/empinfo.htm
Has anyone tried this stuff?
http://www.hotcatalyst.com/resources/empinfo.htm
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ive always been told that on an original motor that used lead, theres a chance of ripping the valve heads to shreads with out it. about 50% of the people say it will happen, the other 50% says it wont.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
Ask the 50% that say it will happen for actual examples, real proof instead of just 'I heard of a guy who knows a guy' BS. There's no known examples of valve seats on a Corvette motor being damaged by lack of lead.
More importantly- if the additive you're using has real lead in it, (and most don't) diluting one bottle in 250 gallons of gas is having no effect. You'd need three or four bottles PER TANK OF GAS to come back to the levels of lead in gasoline equivalent to when your car was new.
Save your money.
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ive always been told that on an original motor that used lead, theres a chance of ripping the valve heads to shreads with out it. about 50% of the people say it will happen, the other 50% says it wont.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
I had a '69 Grand Prix with a 400 ci engine designed for lead which I bought new. It had about 75k miles on it when lead was eliminated from gasoline in the mid '70's. I sold the car in 1997 with 250K miles on it. Long story short, I used unleaded in the car for 175k miles and never had a problem with the engine. Actually, it had never been apart.
IMO, you're wasting you $.
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ive always been told that on an original motor that used lead, theres a chance of ripping the valve heads to shreads with out it. about 50% of the people say it will happen, the other 50% says it wont.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
at 10 bucks a bottle thats good for about 250 gallons of gas, i figure why not. id rather be dumping cheap snake oil in and have nothing happen then find out i really did need it.
Melting Slicks
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I agree with the above.
This is also why the pre 1970 cars are elevating in value. That was before the wacko environmentalists started robbing our freedoms...and HP! Save your money!
Now there saying...there's a 90% chance that us humans may be contributing to global warming? That's BS!
The solution to pollution is dilution.
This is also why the pre 1970 cars are elevating in value. That was before the wacko environmentalists started robbing our freedoms...and HP! Save your money!
Now there saying...there's a 90% chance that us humans may be contributing to global warming? That's BS!
The solution to pollution is dilution.
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Le Mans Master
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i couldnt care a bit about the environment, i have a small block that is going to make HP at the cost of the environment, and thats how i want it. Kalifornia lets NASTY dump trucks, school buses, and Deisels run the streets but yet the tell us "uh, well your going to have to get your 76 and up corvettes and anything for that matter, smogged until you die" wow....but they can let all these desiel p.o.s run the streets and nearly choke me out of my vehicle when they pull up to me and hit the gas....SCREW EMISSIONS. i make more emissions from burping and farting then my vette is going to make when i get the motor back in. Dont worry about emissions, no matter how hard you work to make your car better for the air, there are thousand of companies screwing the air up and paying big fines and not giving a rip. nothing we can do to change it, so go witht he flow. As far as fuel efficiency goes, just use Seafoam if your vette runs rough, now that stuff DOES work.
