Actually, I found the Tornado to be a fantastic product and did some extensive testing to see just how well it worked.
Here's how I tested it.
Since none of us can see inside the intake manifold, I decided to insert a fiber optic camera, with a built in light, through one of the spare vacuum ports. Taking my time, I worked it down to the number 4 injector. I figured this would be the ultimate place just to see how well turbulated air would work with injected fuel.
After getting that far, I realized I couldn't really see the turbulated air very well, so I devised a method of inducing colored smoke into the TBI. Now this was just dandy and really showed up well in the camera. But then I noticed that I couldn't really see the injected gas vapor because of the colored air.
After spending several weeks trying to solve the problem, I bumped into one of my old CIA buds and we chatted about the issue over a couple of cold ones. As it turned out, he knew of a supply of liquid radon that I could get from the government for next to nothing (seems the government is having a heck of a time disposing of this stuff). Anyway, mixing it with gas would cause a glowing effect inside the manifold when injected and then could be viewed along with the colored air.
The next day I logged onto the government site that I was given and as the good American citizen that I am, used my real name and addy. Two days latter the package arrived.
Now that I had all the kinks worked out for the test, I needed to do a bench mark. The first would be with no Tornado and I would hook up the output of the fiber optic camera to my laptop so that I could record my findings.
I put 2 quarts of Radon in the gas tank then filled her up with regular. Oh, I was also informed in the hazardious material notification that came with the Radon, to not use any gas that contained alcohol. Seems it has a tendency to make the mixure gel.
The smoke to the TBI was set up again as well as the fiber optic camera and I started the engine. I waited a few minutes for the new fuel mixture to get to the engine and turned on the smoke and camera. Wow!! That was unbelivable. Just seeing how the air and gas mixed was a wonder in itself. I recorded about 2 minutes of this happening. I realized for anyone else to follow what was on the computer screen, I would have to slow the process down because it happened so fast, but that would be a project for later.
I shut everything down and followed the manufactures instructions for installing the Tornado. I started everything up again and began recording. Even as fast the mixture process was, I could really see the difference. Instead of being sort of a hazy mixture, this was a very pronounced blending into one color. I was betting it would look super in slow motion.
As it was getting late, I disconnected everything and decided that I would review everything the next morning and write up the documentation with the videos so that I could post this amazing development on the web.
The next morning I awoke to my doorbell ringing and at 6:00AM. I'm not accustomed to visitors that early in the morning and was a bit miffed at the early wake up. No sooner did I unlock the door than 4, 6 foot plus guys came barging into my home and two pinned me to the wall. The other two disappeared into the other rooms of my house. In shock, I didn't even get to open my mouth as one of the guys holding me started reading me my rights.
Finally, I'm hollaring what's going on and I'm being told to shut up while they are dragging me out to their unmarked car. Every time I go to ask something, I'm told to shut up and only that we are headed to the Federal building downtown.
Damn, I shaking from anger, anxiety and worry. This is crazy. Finally we get to the Federal building and here I am only in sweats, no shirt, no shoes trucking accross the building entrance. We get inside, I pushed through a metal detector, my two escorts each have an arm and we head to the elevator. Up we go to the 24th floor.
To cut to the chase, seems the Radon I purchsed alerted homeland security who thinks I'm a terriorist. All my computer gear, camera gear, vehicle and anything to do with my experiment was confiscated and I'm sitting in a detention center. This is my only link to the outside world.
I really want to appologize to everyone for not being able to provide absolute proof that the Tornado really does work but, what the hell, there are worse things in life.
