aparently this piece fits in you'r intake, not sure if it only fits in stock intake or if it fits in all intake types. supose to enhance you'r milage by upto 33% and adds almost 20hp at the same time...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Scion...55727816QQrdZ1

anyone able to shine light on this? i saw it while looking up parts for the xB on Ebay, anyone ever used or heard of anyone using this and had the actual 33% or abouts of 25-30% enhancement?

 

Piece O trash

Save your money and buy a good digital tire pressure thingy. Crap my brain stopped working.

 

I'll eat my front bumper if this can actually add 20 HP.

The improvments from this would not likely be noticed. My brother had one on his '97 Mustang GT and he said he couldn't tell a difference.

 

doesn't work like it's labeled huh?

 

It's a waste of money man. I've seen news reports about these things and they're just scams.

 

ok, i just now came up on some other info on it. you wouldn't notice much diffrence as it's not 20hp, it's more around 5hp if that, i'm more interested in the milage. in aa stang GT you wouldn't notice that much of a milage diffrence as the milage on those things suck already and even the full 33% diffrence there has almost zero diffrence. i'm woundering if you stuck it in a vehicle like the xB or something with low to high 30s and higher milage and have atleast a 20% enhancement, could be lookin at 7+ mpg... has that been disprooven about this piece?

 

First - there is no fuel anywhere near the intake where that thing will swirl the air. Injectors are in the head. The long smooth plastic intake manifold does all the magic for getting you high mileage if you back off on the gas pedal and go slower. It probably reduced fuel consumption by restricting air flow just like it says. These work great on old throttle body injector systems and carbed engines to mix the fuel and air better but not in a Scion.

 

If it worked HALF as good as they claim, the car makers would be including it standard. Do you realize how important MPG is to car sales? there's a dozen variations on this type of thing, but there's no real benefit.

 

would be real nice if it did work...

 

eh, you'll do better adding a Type-R sticker on the back

 

you'd do better pushing your car around town, then wasting money at that chunk of scrap metal

 

This is messed up. Ebay lets someone sell a scam gadjet like this to the unsuspecting, but they wouldn't let me sell Manhattan.

 

whats funny is that they even advertised in one of thier comercials that you could infact buy a city on ebay hahaha.

other wierd things for sale... NASA actualy have property for sale on the MOON! no joke, they are actualy selling property on the moon...

 

PM me for a good deal on a bridge... to the moon. Yeah. A bridge to the moon. Great deal.

 

If I remember right....That was true... the town was "George" in Washington state. zip of 98824,
and there was another one but I fergits where it was

George was first owned by a man named "Charley Brown" no shyte!

 

just make sure your tire pressure is up to 30+ and u'll get about 30+mpg.. 2 weeks ago, when I filled up, I had a millage of 27+ mpg.. not bad, but .. I found out one of my tires was at 22, so I boosted it up and next fillup was 30.4mpg.. nice!

 

Dealer Service manager filled my tires when I bought it and said he put them all at 32psi . . . it rolled really well and I got pretty good mileage on that first tank but it seemed a bit hard. I check and got a reading of about 43psi in the tires so I lowered them to 38 front and 37 rear. I don't even know what it feels like to run the recommended 28psi in them. But I tell you what . . . it sure do corner nice and firm and there are no scrapes on the side walls from rolling the tread under. They also wear nice and square on the edges.

 

Please don't buy that POS product. Guess they will still sell them as long as people keep buying. Some people will believe everything they read. Look how many people still think OJ is inocent. LMFAO!!!!!

 

 

You have to be very careful running too high of pressure in your tires. Overinflating a tire will make it start to dome on the tread and you will wear more on the center of the tread and less on the outsides. I don't think anyone can say absolutely at which pressure you will start to see the treads doming as it depends on tire size and even manufacturer (# of cords, belts, baz, naz, etc). You will just have to watch your tread wear and adjust your tire pressure accordingly. If you get it to that happy place you will reap the benefits of better mpg and still have consistant wear patterns on your tires.