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1. Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: LBC286@aol.com; Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:18:45 EST; A guy at work is asking me about buying a Tornado air twister for the intake of his Dodge Shadow. He watched the infomercial and they claim that it twists the air in the intake so it can go into the; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00154.html (7,891 bytes)
2. RE: Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: "Mullen, Tim" <Tim.Mullen@trw.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:01:35 -0500; intake ... I have some snake oil I'll sell him. It would work better than the Tornado scam. Somewhere on the net is even a write up of someone testing the thing with a dyno, and it reduced the power; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00155.html (8,006 bytes)
3. RE: Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: "Keith Kaplan" <keithka@microsoft.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:40:14 -0800; I can almost believe the fuel economy claim -- with less air flow, there'd be less fuel flow (and power), right? Then again, I could go unplug a fuel injector or two (remember the Cadillac 4-6-8?) fo; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00156.html (8,046 bytes)
4. Re: Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:53:49 -0800; It depends on the FI system. On a carbureted engine if you block off the air intake you get crap mileage because the mixture goes rich. My dad had one of those. Ew. And I'm getting 30% more mileage s; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00157.html (8,405 bytes)
5. Re: Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>; Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:38:09 -0500; Yes it's a scam, and yes it does work. A vortex is not the fastest way through a passage, in fact it's pretty slow. Just watch how long a soap bubble takes to get down the spinning water in the drain; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00166.html (8,741 bytes)
6. RE: Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: "Lyn Fatt, Brian A" <brian.lynfatt@eds.com>; Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:04:07 -0500; [snip] I'll stir the pot. Cue GM's line of Vortec(tm) engines. Are you saying that those have a mixing problem. Why do you think they would do Vortec alsmost across the board for their engines. Bria; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00167.html (7,747 bytes)
7. RE: Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>; Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:23:35 -0500; Not familiar enough with the engines to comment on them. I'll stir the pot. Cue GM's line of Vortec(tm) engines. Are you saying that those have a mixing problem. Why do you think they would do Vortec; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00169.html (7,624 bytes)
8. RE: Tornado air twister (score: 1): Author: "Mullen, Tim" <Tim.Mullen@trw.com>; Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:44:56 -0500; To swirl the pot a little more: Putting a "swirl" device at the beginning of the intake track, would most likely be meaningless, as the air flow will "straighten out" long before in arrives at any ca; /html/shop-talk/2002-03/msg00170.html (7,608 bytes)

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