Tornado Fuel Saver

[BarlowCummins]

I was watching tv after work last night and saw a paid advertisement for this product and now i am wondering if anyone is using it? If anyone out there in the tdr is using it, I would love to here your comments on the product. I drive 3,000 - 5,000 a month for work and every little fuel savings is great. My parts dealer at the dodge dealer said that some claims it works and others don't, that sounds like a gamble of 60 dollars for me and i don't like to gamble away money! Any feedback would be helpful. Corey

 

[akdiesel]

Where would it go on CTD?

 

[NPloysa]

I would think the best place is right between the air horn and the black feed tube from the intercooler. But I would think that the grid heater coils would disrupt the flow.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

sixty used lotto tickets would be a wiser investment...

 

[akdiesel]

Isn't a turbo enough a "Tornado"?

 

[y-knot]

Well someone has beaten you to the punch...

The goffy TAG is the diesel world's Tornado Air.



Both are hokus pokus vudo junk.

 

[BarlowCummins]

I don't know exactly where it goes but i think that NPLOYSA is right. They claim that it swirls the air for better fuel/air mixture or something like that. I am just wondering if anyone is using it and if it worth money but, i suspect that it is a con. ( like alot of other increased mpg products out there)

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

It won't work in a forced air induced motor. Plus just the very design of our intakes (Not the horn but the air trough) themselves would prove it useless anyhow

 

[cArNiVaLwOrKeR]

Hey CoreyCunningham, just buy it and check it out, if it does't work, slap it on the wifes Station Wagon...

 

[DPelletier]

I have to agree with Y-Knot. :--)





Reminds me of one of those "fuel line magnetizers" that they used to sell people to "align thier fuel molecules" for better mileage. I was born on Tuesday, just not last Tuesday!



Dave

 

[snowracer69]

Originally posted by y-knot

Well someone has beaten you to the punch...

The goffy TAG is the diesel world's Tornado Air.



Both are hokus pokus vudo junk.

While I agree the tornado is voodo junk (at least on a Cummins, no comment on them on gassers), how can you say the TAG is? Do you not understand aerodynamics or fluid flow at all? Do you not realize how much improved the flow is if it is laminar and non-turbulent, compared to if it is rotating and turbulent?



No, I don't have a TAG, nor have I tried one... all I know is that the theory behind the TAG is sound, and from reports from those that have tried it they seem to work. Straighten out the air, and more can flow easily... that's the way fluid flow works...

 

[KL]

I remember reading a test on them in a car magazine a while back (but I can't remember which one). In some vehicles it helped mileage a little, but in most vehicles it did not. But I think all the vehicles which saw an improvement in mileage were old carberated vehicles. It didn't make a difference in the newer fuel injected vehicles. Plus as ToolManTimTaylor pointed out, they probably would not work with our turbocharged engines. You would probably be better saving your money. KL

 

[Shovelhead]

If ya chuck in yer cordless drill, it's real handy for making cole slaw and frech fries.

As for Automotive uses, when placed on top of papers on the dash, it will keep those loose papers from flying around.



Basicly,... ... . it's junque.

 

[y-knot]

I understand your flow... but I still think the TAG units are junk.



I would think that if a test were done where you take 50 trucks and tell the drivers you are installing the TAG on each one. Then only install it on 25 trucks, no one could tell the difference. They would all say the truck is "more responsive", "gets up on boost faster", yea right.



Tag is useless, and gets thrown in the same corner as the larger exhaust. Were the larger exhaust does help, just not as much as most claim. When you buy something and expect or foresee an improvement, you do not make for an objective critique. You have a pre-conceived notion that a performance increase will happen, so your mind rationalizes a positive change. On the larger exhaust, that rationalization is further backed up by a auditory sense of a louder exhaust note, so there you have it, the box said it will go faster it must be true.

I say to you, Cummins seems to be pretty much up on things. If the TAG was so dang good, why isn't it installed at the Cummins factory? Or better yet, Let me know if you see one in the new 600.

 

[jwilliams3]

Is this a serious question??????????????

 

[GSatler]

I PUT A TORNADO ON 03 HO 6 SPEED 3. 73 GEARS. I HAV A TRIP I HAVE TO MAKE EVERY WEEK OF 150 MILES @ 1750 RPM 58MPH. I NOW GET 28 MPG ON OVERHEAD COMP COMPARED TO 24 BEFORE

ITS GONE DOWN 2 MPG ON WINTER FUEL. I PUT IT IN THE RUBBER FLEX JOINT BEFORE AIR HORN. TAG DID NOTHING. THE ONLY OTHER THING I HAVE ON IT IS A RAM AIR III

 

[MLee]

mileage

Mr Salter;

have you put your mileage figures to the paper and pencil test yet? a lot of guys do both and find quite a disparity between the paper and computer figures.

Please don't get up set at me for asking such a question. But 28 or 24 mpg is high and not many people are getting close to that, and there is alot CTD out there.

just curious.



Marv.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

the only way to get an accurate comparison before and after is to install it in someone's vehicle without their knowing... like a fleet vehicle driven by the same person... and then record the difference.



someone who buys an item in hopes that it will improve their mileage will tend to drive in such a sway as to improve their mileage.



Forrest

 

[GSatler]

I DRIVE THIS TRIP ON 4 LANE RD. I USE CRUSE CONTROL & AT 55MPH THIS IS ECONO SPEED. I USE THE OVERHEAD COMP FOR COMPARISON ONLY BUT I AM ONLY . 5MPG HIGHER ON THE OVERHEAD COMP IVE CHECKED SEVERAL TIMES

 

[Forrest Nearing]

interesting. where did you install the Tornado Air?



Forrest