To increase the economy of the vehicle you need to get the maximum volumetric efficiency which means as much air in to the engine to burn with the fuel as possible, however there are design restrictions and many other factors which affect this, the vehicle manufacturer has to make a comprimise on this and give a vehicle that meets many pieces of legislation and so the form you get the vehicle in is about the best they can do, none of these wonder products does a lot of good and the claims made by the manufacturers is at best dubious
2006-12-24 03:35:19
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answered by gav552001 5
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Yep, your "foot!" All those "gimmicks" on the market don't do a thing except make the sellers rich. Keep your foot out of the gas, keep your car tuned, as others have mentioned inflate your tires to the proper pressure, keep the front end aligned and brakes good so no extra drag, and accelerate slowly and smoothly, and stop in the same manner. One reason that so many of the "miracle" products wind up with testimonials of folks claiming that they got 2-3 more miles per gallon is that the first time you install something on your car that you "think" is going to improve the mileage, the first thing you do is start driving more efficiently yourself. Human nature, and what the sellers count on to get other's to endorse their products. Those miracle "tornado air cleaners, super spark coils, splitfire plugs, and other junk" would all be standard equipment on all new cars if they really worked. Automotive engineers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to figure out ways to increase fuel mileage and if it was as easy as changing the "air filter" then you can darned well bet that they would. Besides most of those gadgets can actually mess up mileage, and at worse even ruin electrical parts on the newer computer controlled cars. The tornado air filters disturb the smooth flow of air through the air flow meter and the throttle body, split fire plugs "misfire" so often they throw the computers off, and the "super coils" cause increased resistance in the ignition system. What is so funny about this is that all these same products were on the market in different forms decades ago by different people. J.C. Whitney had multigap plugs, There were devices to put on the carburetor to "stir up" the air, and a "miracle hot coil" that was a large plastic thing that went in the coil wire had fake transistors molded into the outside and nothing at all on the inside except for a "gap" in the spark to attempt to increase the heat of the spark. You could have done the same thing with simply raising the coil wire a tad above the contact in the distributor cap. Of course that also caused them to burn out faster as well. Like the old saying "everything old is new again", this stuff has all been around before.
2006-12-23 17:27:12
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answered by mohavedesert 4
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There are things you can do. If you have standard plugs, put in platinum, get the heaviest guage plug wires made for your car, run injector cleaner occasionally, make sure all tune-up specs are met, put in a higher-performance air cleaner, keep tires inflated to slightly above recommended pressures (not over max shown on sidewall, though), install a higher flow muffler, etc. There is no magic bullet, though. No pills in the exhaust, no "turbo" boost pieces worth 79 cents that cost you 80 dollars to go in the intake hose, no magnets for the fuel line, etc that magically give you 20 percent or more gas mileage. In actual fact, the best product for increasing gas mileage is your right foot. Make it a lighter touch on the accelerator. Your wallet will thank you for it.
2006-12-23 17:06:34
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answered by Fred C 7
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Essentially, you have to do your homework but there are some good products on the market. Your best bet to increase efficiency is to reduce friction or drag in the vehicle. The cheapest way to do this is to inflate your tires to the correct pressure, keep your engine tuned up and your air filter clean. If you want to spend a little money, your can eliminate engine and transmission friction with a few products. One that I recomend is Dyno Surge anti-friction additive. It is 100% synthetic (no teflon or graphite particulate) and works very well. Using this product I increased my mileage by 12%. Look for it on the website. Good Luck!
2006-12-23 17:17:38
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answered by racerkeith 4
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No.
Trust me, there is NOTHING you can buy at Autozone that the engineers at GM, Toyota or Benz haven't tried, discarded or installed on present vehicles. The only effective thing you can do is reduce weight, (remove all interior trim, stereo, all seats except the drivers, remove the AC/heat system, replace the back and side glass with plexiglass, only keep three gallons of fuel in the tank) and drive very conservatively. With luck you may see a two to three miles per gallon increase.
2006-12-23 18:27:00
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answered by Anonymous
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We recently bought a vehicle and the owner had removed the air filter, had a metal plate welded on instead with a hole in it and had clamped an enamel dinner plate on the top. He assured us that it saved him 25% on fuel costs on a 2 litre petrol van and said we should keep it as it was. We don't know if it worked as it looked like a lash up to us and we reinstated the air filter but he was a garage mechanic. So the answer might be a camper's enamel dinner plate.
2006-12-23 17:30:45
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answered by chickpea 3
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Yes. This genuine product is called a garage, keep car in it and use your legs, now thats ECONOMIC.
2006-12-23 17:08:29
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answered by Anonymous
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You don't say what car you are driving but if it diesel try a litre of cooking oil with 100 ml of turps in it and they run beautiful.
2006-12-23 17:01:34
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answered by Anonymous
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a pair of legs and some good shoes, sell the car (economic) and walk.
2006-12-23 17:00:46
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answered by fluxpattern® 5
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Peddles.
2006-12-23 17:19:39
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answered by Hi T 7
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