Performance TIP. Anyone that owns this Car I would highly recommend installing a K&N air filter and a Fuel saver called the Tornado. I swear on a stack of bibles I get 36 to 40 Miles per Gallon Highway and 21 miles per gallon in City/HWY mix driving. This compares to 17/26 that I used to get.. This is no joke. I was a skeptic at first, but the Car really gets GREAT mileage and runs with more punch at the stop light I love it..
This Car is fun to drive I was clocked in Missouri going 80mph in this car and $220.00 later I have a car and a ticket worth bragging to my friends that my car is officially FAST...!!!
Could have gone faster, but hey family was in the car...
After all this is a GREAT Family / Sports car we all had a laugh and then drove the limit after.
Since when is going 80 mph something to brag about? I can get my 4 banger Ford Escort over 110 mph.
You can stack bibles to the moon and swear on them - I still think "tornadoes", "turbonators", whatever the heck they are called, are complete BS.
A little fluid dynamics lesson here - assuming that the intake air charge is a fluid, as engineers do. Putting anything in the intake track is a RESTRICTION in the air flow. I don't care what kind of spin the device is supposed to impart on the air charge... do you really think that spin is going to have any effect once the air charge is split into six different routes (ie, the intake manifold) and shoved into the cylinders? Doubtful.
I'm not trying to rain on your parade here, but whatever numbers you are seeing have nothing to do with the tornado in your intake - they have been proven time and time again by all kinds of people to do just the opposite of what they claim.
If you want to see some REAL gas mileage increase numbers, put on a fender well intake kit (which you can build yourself for roughly $60 using stuff from home depot and a K&N filter - go to www.clubgp.com and search the forums for "FWI instructions" or something like that, you'll get lots of results), and get a PCM tune. I wrote the review for the GTP near the top of the page, and I get an AVERAGE of 27, and I've seen over 30 on the highway - and my car is supercharged. In my review I think that I said I was getting 28mpg on the highway (being conservative), but I've got a picture of my DIC reading 28.5, and it went to 31 on a recent trip. You really can squeeze some impressive mileage numbers out of these cars, but not with an intake restriction device...er...I mean a "tornado". ;)
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