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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 02:50 PM
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Thats why you dont use a 50 dollar home depot kit, sometimes you get what you pay for. And from the data given the Hydrogen booster works better at 70 mph than 45 mph.
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 03:43 PM
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I'm just telling you what I know from reseach we carried out into many different designs, but by all means you buy 1 and fit it to your car. Then document the results and let us know.
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 04:01 PM
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Im not mixing gasoline, N2O, Hydrogen, and forced induction to boot...no way

I dont care a bit about mpg
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 04:25 PM
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Lets see, these are the advantages:
* Drastic increase in engine horsepower
* Extreme gas mileage increase
* Decrease the effects of global warming
* IRS Tax Deduction
* The answer to the government screwing you and the American Citizens

First of all how credible are these horsepower results:
"Today I did over 25 test runs of 0-60 mph acceleration with various combinations of devices installed and operating on the Hyundai Excel. Each combination of devices was tested four times on a section of road in rural New York, two times in each direction."
A stop watch on a rural road, by what sounds like one guy, does not qualify as a credible test in my opinion. So the horsepower advantage sounds BS to me.

Gas mileage I might give you, since adding a little hydrogen to a gas/air mixture will help the efficiency of the engine but I really don't see 30% as they claim. Maybe 15-20%

Emissions I'm also skeptical about since our Betas (non boosted ones that is) are already lean burning engines designed to help with efficiency and to help the catalytic converters burn pollutants. Unless you modify the Cat I don't see how adding extra hydrogen will help. It will just take away from the extra oxygen a lean burning engine produces and the cat uses, to burn of NOx and excess hydrocarbons.

Other than that, it sounds like another cheap addition (not cheap in monetary value but in design effort) to a car that'll give you some value but not enough to warrant the price or the propaganda used on their site to promote it. Shoot, if you just wanted to make your engine more efficient add a turbocharger.... just overlook the expense of higher octane gas and excess gas use at high rpms....
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Old Nov 30, 2006 | 10:21 AM
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^^^

I think the device was more for MPG than HP increase, in that case a turbo is not going to help! lollll

I also did some research about those and the people that did build things like that and got efficiency out of it used "banks" of generators, usually 4 or 5 generators (some even more) and modified the timing accordingly, so I don't think that the product sold in the above link will really work, and I have to add that this site also sell electric supercharger AND they say it's working showing dyno sheets ... lmao.gif sorry, I don't want to be mean or anything but someone that tells me that an electric supercharger WILL work and that it's putting hafl the power of an Audi turbo just lost every credibility it could have!
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Old Nov 30, 2006 | 04:28 PM
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The supercharger is a funny though...I put them on ebay when they first put them on mimo for me to sell. I listed them for like 200 dollars or best offer and sold tons around 150 bucks, kids love to buy stuff like that.

For the hydrogen booster...could work...but I will never try it for the money...just thought you guys might like to see it. Interesting thought though.

I guess this can be locked...
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Old Nov 30, 2006 | 04:32 PM
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Here a couple more to look at if you want.
http://www.hydrogenfuelsaver.com.au/...rogen_fuel.htm
http://www.takeaction.com.au/hydro_oxy_fuel_saver.asp
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Old Dec 1, 2006 | 02:15 PM
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Well the idea is not bad, and it works as long as you don't put just one tiny generator so the ones we see online won't work as they say it will, as I said earlier I know there are companies that install this kind of things on trucks, but again the engine is slightly modified and it's not just one small container, they usually install a few in series (the generator doesn't need more than 3v to run, the rest of the voltage will just rise the water temperature).

With a bank of those generators they state a 10 to 20% fuel economy, it may not look a lot but those trucks are on the roads nearly 20hrs a day, so at the end of a year they saved quite a lot of money.
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