So I was up late one night and saw the commercial on this product. I was wondering if anyone has it and does it really work. The reason I was asking because I was really thinking about buying it. I like the look of a stock intake, haha.
dont buy it its a waste of money and doesnt do anything for perfomance or fuel economy
for real, its a fuckin waste.
want the air to swirl as it goes into the combustion chamber? get a 3 or 5 angle valve job 
gas mileage gets worse with it…
what the fuel saver does is create a vortex. The average car has accordian style intake tubes that completely disrupts the vortex of air making it completely useless. If anything the fuel saver is just a flow restriction.
im gonna laugh when that cheap piece of plastic breaks apart and gets sucked into the throttle body.
It’s metal BTW.
And yeah, dont waste your money.
Most of the modern day 3 or 4 valve per cylinder engines have 2 different profiles for each intake valve. A smaller lobe and a bigger lobe, one flows more, one flows less therefore creating swirl. I know that our cars have this… thats why when you look a a cam (a vtec one for example) all 3 lobes have different profiles.
thanks for that explanation ^… i had allways wondered about that.
I didn’t say a damn thing about this cheap ass tornado…:bang:
All the swirl that was created at the Air box would be lost waaaayyy before it reached the TB, and if it would make it past the Throttle butterfly I don’t think it would make the 90 degree turn into the intake runners.
The Tornado might work for a carborated or TBI engine where the air/fuel get mixed early in the intake tract.
Looks like a job for my heros… the Mythbusters
Well I guess I decided not to get it after reading all these comments, haha. For some reason I thought it MIGHT actually work. It’s a bit pricey anyways.
If you have a carburated Chevy S-10, then by all means, buy it; but for an Integra, it’s completely useless.
http://www.infomercialratings.com/product/tornado_fuel_saver_review
http://www.urateit.com/writtenreviews.asp?id=173
http://www.wcpo.com/external/dwym/c3b519.html
http://www.wcpo.com/wcpo/localshows/dontwasteyourmoney/917ff5.html
http://reviews.ebay.com/Tornado-Fuel-Saver-is-a-Scam_W0QQugidZ10000000000922281
http://www.mnsu.edu/news/read.php?id=old-1086498001
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff10925.htm
The Tornado Fuel Saver
Tested March 2006
Rating: ZERO (out of 5 stars)
The Tornado is in a class of device marketed through scare tactics and confusion. It is marketed under many names including Vortec Cyclone, Vortex, HiClone and Tornado… With climbing gas prices, the manufacturers of such devices will attempt to lure you in with promises of better fuel economy, more power, less engine wear and so on and so forth. The Tornado comes in a pretty shabby cardboard box along with an instruction / installation sheet. The Tornado itself is made of fairly lightweight pressed steel or aluminium and has some sharp edges on it. Fitting it was pretty easy; unclip the cold-air intake, pop in the Tornado, clip it back together and away you go. The test vehicle was a completely stock 2001 Subaru Impreza RS. The vehicle regularly returns 25.9mpg on the freeway. I tested the Tornado on a trip to Vegas and back - a 900 mile round-trip, as well as week’s worth of testing around town on the daily commute. I filled up the vehicle at the usual gas stops from the usual pumps. We do the Vegas trip a couple of times a year so I have a good set of data points for how the Subaru performs. I calculated our fuel efficiency based on reported mileage on the odometer vs. reported gallons in the tank (from the pumps) which is the same technique I use every time I do this. On the way down to Vegas, our gas mileage dropped to 22mpg and on the way back it was about 21.5mpg. The average for this trip was 21.75mpg, down from the usual 25.9mpg. Around town, the Subaru normally manages 21.9mpg. After a week’s use with the Tornado, my average gas mileage was 21.8mpg - near enough the same.
Conclusion? On long motorway hauls, the Tornado absolutely does not help. In my test it actually made the gas mileage worse, which in the days of $3/gallon petrol is nothing to be laughed at. Around town it made a negligible difference. I’d say Don’t was your money on this thing except I managed to flog mine on e-bay so evidently people are still buying them.
Note: I was so underwhelmed by the results that I didn’t bother dyno testing the vehicle to see if the claims of improved power were true or not.
If you want more power and better fuel economy get the electric supercharger:iagree: ! I just saw this when I went to auto zone recently. It made me laugh cause back in the day I might have bought it thinking that shit might work.lol
^ " gain up to 15 hp or smth" :
homemadeturbo.com did a test on one of those electric turbochargers. In the end they smashed it up like that fax machine in office space.
on anouther fourm, a guy dynoed his car before and after. He lost 3hp.
What about the engine restoration liquids? For the high milege engines? I’ve always wondered about them…