I guess all of us remember the days when Cyclone just came out in the market for the carburetor cars. For those who have not heard of Cyclone (or something similiar to it), it is actually a piece of metal shaped like a turbine fan which you would put in the carburetor of a car, inside the air filter. It has no motor whatsoever, heck it even has no bearings, remember making fans from paper and when you blew them it spinned, it is precisely like that but made of metal. It is claimed by the company that as the air is sucked through the air filter and into the carburetor, this Cyclone gadget would spin like a fan and create a vortex into the carburetor and hence improving engine performance, RPM, fuel consumption etc etc. To me, it sounded like a load of rubbish. As number one, this gadget has nothing to power it such as a motor so it would not help suck more air in. And number two, the fan might spin as claimed, but it would create resistance to the air flow and hence engine performance would drop. Lastly, how can the vortex created improved engine performance? So, even though you can create a vortex with this gadget, but when this vortex reaches the intake valves, wouldn't this vortex die off? Power from an engine comes from combustion ie basically dictated by fuel and air. Improve either of this, you increase the performance of the engine. So this fan gadget does not do anything to improve on these, so how can improve engine performance?
Just yesterday, as i was chatting with a fren, he claimed his fren, bought the new Cyclone 2 which is for fuel injection cars. And somehow it improved the performance of the engine by higher RPM performance and improve fuel consumption by as much as RM10 per tank. I am kinda skeptical and I don't like the gimmicks that these companies are coming out with such as miraculous improvement of engine performance using gadgets that serves no purpose in an engineering point of view (eg remember those strong magnets that you placed on the fuel hose?)
Any how, I am giving these products the benefit of doubt and so would like to invite anyone who has bought Cyclone 2 to share their experiences and opinions. Did it improve anything?
Just yesterday, as i was chatting with a fren, he claimed his fren, bought the new Cyclone 2 which is for fuel injection cars. And somehow it improved the performance of the engine by higher RPM performance and improve fuel consumption by as much as RM10 per tank. I am kinda skeptical and I don't like the gimmicks that these companies are coming out with such as miraculous improvement of engine performance using gadgets that serves no purpose in an engineering point of view (eg remember those strong magnets that you placed on the fuel hose?)
Any how, I am giving these products the benefit of doubt and so would like to invite anyone who has bought Cyclone 2 to share their experiences and opinions. Did it improve anything?
