Has anyone ever bought this
 

Just wondering if anyone has ever tried one of these.
http://www.turbonator.com/index.html

I was looking at that in a magazine. Vortec makes one of those. Guaranteed to boost your HP or money back. easy to install (takes 5 mins it says). we need a guinea pig here to try it and see. I would do it but I'd have to get a note from my doctor first. any volunteers?? :toothy11:

Just dont leave the screw:argue: driver on your motor like the illustration shows..

Don't bother with them... Anyone here remember or have ever heard of the Tornado Air System. It's a rip off of that, basically. And both are about as "lame" as you can get for "aftermarket hp gains". As per my knowledge to the Tornado, if you watch the info-mercial closely, you can see their claims of 20+ hp gains are momentary at best, and also pay close attention to what make/model cars have the biggest "gains". Obviously you can tell I'm not fan of these devices... If you want to spend your money to try them out, by all means, go for it. I just think that it's a waste of money/time. Just my thoughts on it.

Dude...its a complete waste of money. The "swirling" effect does take place, but the minute that swirled air hits the top of the intake manifold it goes back to normal.

Maybe if you had an individual runnered stack type race manifold and bought 8 of them, one for each stack it would help....wait...no it wouldn't. They're a restriction and a gimmick

I remember this when it first came out. Its actually made for marine applications, not sure for what. Whats funny is that it states as seen on several mags but they are paying for advertisement not that those mags installed or reviewed it. :laughing3

I'll make you one out of a soup can and some tin snips for half price if you really want to try it.

Well, I have one of these http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33741 and I picked up 6 tenths in the quarter mile! :eek:

These things kind of scare me. Think about it. To make more power, you need to bring in more air and fuel. Right? Assuming these pupies bring in more air with the swirling affect, is the MAF able to pick up on it? Will more fuel be able to be added correctly?

Show me an independant dyno and I might start believing.

They don't bring in more air...even if they worked like they said they did.

Thier claim is that it "swirls" the air that does come in, thus creating more efficent combustion. It's all a marketing ploy. For these things to work, they would have to be in each individual intake port in the heads, and the swirl dams/ quench pads would need to be removed from the heads. Think of all the turns and variations the air has to take past the MAF. First it's "split" by the throttle blade, thend it turns 90 degrees at the plenum. In the lower intake, it flattens out against the bottom of the manifold, then is spilt again 8 times, turns back up into the runners, does a another U-turn near the top side of the runners, then down into the intake ports, which curve, past the valve, which "spreads it out", hits the swirl dam/ quench pad in the combustion chamber of the heads...where it is FINALLY mixed with fuel spray from the injectors.

If this thing can keep the air swirling, "promoting better combustion and adding 20 HP", after all that, I want MT to start carrying them...I'll buy 2. :D

I have an electric hair dryer that I'm gonna fab into my intake system...it has a high and low setting, so I can change the amount of boost. I'm gonna hook a shop vac up to my tailpipes as well...to "promote better exhaust scavenging"

Heh. Ive been tempted to pick up a turbinator just to see if it works or not.

I wouldnt mind, and they are not too expencive. Maybe ill order one up, go dyno my car, bolt it on, and dyno it again. see what really happens with them.

im pretty skeptical about them though.

If i do it ill be sure to post the results, but regardless it will be coming right back off. How can i have something called the "Turbonator" installed in my car and take myself seriously?

Ill buy one and try it out and mail it to whoever wants to try it. Keep it moving around. <G>

Omg, that's the funniest thing I have heard all night... LOL. I needed that. But, yeah, you're right. They don't do jack.

I wonder if it sounds like a blower with the air swirling around and all that. Poor mans blower. kinda like having a timing "gear" drive instead of a chain and sprocket. I remember those days..:laughing1

This is a joke, right?

Because I'll go buy five of them this very minute.

That sounds like a great idea. We should get a group of people, mabye 5 or so, and pitch in and buy one. we will all circulate it around for testing...

yeah, it was definitely hard to tell if bob was serious about that. 20-40hp for $100? im in. he added that lil crazy face at the end of his statement, so dangit. its hard to tell. Chances are though, if BOB got it and it worked well, I think he'd carry it on the site. IMHO.

Several years ago when the original gimick device came out I read about it in a "Sport Truck" magazine where the magazine put one in a 97 S-10 I think. Running the 1/4, with it in, they supposedly picked up 2/10s. They took it out and lost 2/10s. Put it back in and picked them back up. If I remember right the S-10 was a 4.3 with a 5-speed, CAI, exhaust, programming, drag radials, and ran a 15.3 without it and a 15.1 with it. Could just have been propaganda to promote it.

Lol. read some of the feedback on this thing. One guy went from 34 HP to 44 HP after he got one. Geez I would hate own a dodge neon. But most of the feedback says a gain in MPG. That's nice I guess but wouldn't an increase in HP cause less MPG? This probably aint the same contraption as the tornado thing for 19.99 (as seen on TV). It even looks a little cool, like a mini blower :icon_tong . 69 bucks is a lot to pay for something that don't do squat. But too dam cheap to gain what it says. I think our fine MT guys should try this out and give us members the (2 snaps up or 2 snaps down). loved it, hated it, lol :hiding:

Im bumping this bc I'm hopefully getting a large chunk of change through fafsa as well as a new job which I make so much more money, so when I have a comfortable amount, I'll blow $70 on it and let you guys know.

More power to ya man, keep us updated. I'd rather spend the $70 on something more constructinve...like beer.

lol, I hear ya man...but the only reason I would buy it is if the fafsa thing goes through. The estimated total I should get is over $7000 just bc Im a fulltime college student with a divorced family. I'll keep yall posted.

Hey Danny, I could use a supercharger. Wanna sponsor me with that money? I'll put your name on my car. Just think how popular you will be on the forums when you have dannyb785 on a bright red supercharged Cobra!

in the words of napoleon dynamite....sweet!!! the words "dannyb" pasted on the side of a torch red cobra....ahhh im drooling..


http://www.eng.usf.edu/~dbianchi/dan.JPG

ill have the 5k sent thru paypal in no time...

My Paypal address is...

LOL

I need a better picture of my car. Oh and btw, its PERFORMANCE RED!!! Identical color to the 2000 Cobra R, which was at Carlisle this weekend next to the '93 Cobra R and the '95 Cobra R. It was also next the the new GT500 which is a pretty sweet car. I may have to get one of those.

Has Anyone Seen This Before?
 

yeah, i dont know anyone who has tried it, but the general concensus is that it is crap. They dont offer any dyno graphs.
its one of those things if ya got a few extra bucks and go in not expecting anything, it might be fun to try out. Ive thought about getting one and seeing for myself and putting this matter to rest, but havent gotten around to it.
would be fun to experiment though

it just seems like BS to me. 35hp for that? right.

Its just like the "spiralmax" and the "tornado". I read in a sport truck mag. a few years back about a test with one and a S-10 supposedly picked up 2/10s in the 1/4 and lost two when they took it back out. Could have just been propaganda to sell it. I doubt it does much if anything.

I don't believe any horsepower claims without a dyno printout....I don't see how this product could add any real hp. It will make your wallet a little lighter so maybe you'll pick up a tenth.

That thing would end up in the back of my closet..... :rolleyes:

Last night i was talking to a guy at the bar who really knows his stuff. he has a bachelors in automotive engineering and is a complete gear head, even though he looked like a hippy. He really knew his astuff though far more than i do.

Anyways i asked him if he ever heared of the turbinator and he said yeah, it does work, dyno test will show that they do. No you will probably not get 35hp, but 10-15 is very realistic. he said he runs one in his truck and you can actually feel a little bit of difference.

He explined it like this, take a 2 liter bottle and fill it half way. Turn it upside down and the water just chugs out.
take that bottle, refill it half way, get the water to spin in a vortex and the water comes out a lot easier.

he said that is basically what it does, it spins the air a bit and it allows better flow into the engine.


I'm going to take the bullet on this one, im going to order one tonight, when i get it in, ill let you know how it feels. i'll also run a dyno test with and without it.

settle this once and for all.