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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 01:40 AM
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Once again I'm pulled in by the guarantee of 35 more h.p. by a $70 item. It looks like a supercharger fan type thing... but it.... ya'll have to read it. It says "satisfaction guaranteed" and all that warranty stuff. Slap me....
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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 02:48 AM
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smack!!!!!
hold on let me smack you a couple more times. SMACK! SMACK!!! SMACK!!!
that thing looks like a hair dryer,dont tell me you bought it...i would of got you a hair dryer for 12$ at walmart

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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 03:03 AM
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you should get two .. that way you could be running twin turbonators
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...if you also invest in the ferrite coils to surround your fuel lines. The magnets will align the gasoline molecules in a better formation and prepare them for finer atomization by the Turbonator. These two items put together will probably take half a second off your 1/4 mile time and add about 30 HP. It's a wonder that GM didn't include these basic things in their original design!

I'm off to install my performance hood seal and TB bypass kit...
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Originally Posted by 98NassauBluC5
Once again I'm pulled in by the guarantee of 35 more h.p. by a $70 item. It looks like a supercharger fan type thing... but it.... ya'll have to read it. It says "satisfaction guaranteed" and all that warranty stuff. Slap me....
Mail me your 70 bucks and I will make a voodoo Vette in your cars likeness and bless it with extra power - You will gain FAR more from this than the BS electric fan

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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 06:49 AM
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What a crock, but I'll bet there are people out there that will buy this thing.
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Good for 97rwhp. Install 2 on the intake and 2 on the exhaust and you gain a whopping 389rwhp!!!

Install one inside the car and you can get rid of your A/C and lose all that excess weight from the compressor etc.

Win/win situation all round.

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Buy two or three of those puppies. I'd say they make great paperweights, but the wind just blows the papers away. Could be because the blow or vice versa.
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I hooked up one per cylinder for a whopping 560 hp!

Upgrade muffler bearings and water wetter for the blinker fluid coming next...
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Originally Posted by leaftye
I hooked up one per cylinder for a whopping 560 hp!

Upgrade muffler bearings and water wetter for the blinker fluid coming next...
Did you get the Diff Fuse mod as well?? Good for 23rwhp plus unlimited traction!!

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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 11:35 AM
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Friend bought one of those things for his Pathfinder, I told him this is the reason he still drives a Nissan and not a real car.......
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Maybe they say "Satisfaction Gaurenteed" because the don't blow - they suck!
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Originally Posted by Ragtop_Rob
Mail me your 70 bucks and I will make a voodoo Vette in your cars likeness and bless it with extra power - You will gain FAR more from this than the BS electric fan

High Priest Rob
This one isn't even electric! I thought it was too, but looking around their website, all it is is a stationary set of blades that create, and I quote, "...a swirling, fast-burn effect in the combustion chamber." Basically it is an airflow restrictor! I can see how an "electric supercharger" could possibly somehow affect performance even slightly, but this is just an outright scam.

Off to adhere my Type R emblems. 475 rwhp here I come!
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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by EnglandGreen
Did you get the Diff Fuse mod as well?? Good for 23rwhp plus unlimited traction!!

EG
You may laugh, but i installed 1 on each front brake cooling duct and was able to decrease overall drag for a 41 rwhp increase.
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Sure it will!
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Originally Posted by willpall
...if you also invest in the ferrite coils to surround your fuel lines. The magnets will align the gasoline molecules in a better formation and prepare them for finer atomization by the Turbonator. These two items put together will probably take half a second off your 1/4 mile time and add about 30 HP. It's a wonder that GM didn't include these basic things in their original design!

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