Ecotek Clean Burn Valve - Any good?

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Found this, possibly the first performance 'widget' that works? Looks just like a 'performance enhancer' off of Ebay, but since Pipercross have taken the time to make a filter especially for it, surely it must be good?

I'd like to hear your thoughts on it (anyone witnessed one being used/used one?), as i'm sure I could learn a lot.

Thanks, Jamie.
 
So from what I can see it lets a stream of air into the manifold to aid fuel mixing. So it is basically equivalent to drilling a hole in your intake.

And, the standard question to ask yourself is, if this really does give the benefits claimed, why don't cars come with it from the factory?
 
I'm not sure, but that appears to be what it does.
It would be interesting to see more evidence of its effects on all the things mentioned in the advert for it. There's a video on the provided site of them fitting and tuning one. Any other similar products like this on the market that any of you know of?
 
It looks like it splices into a vacuum line. I have no clue how it would work, but I'm very doubtful that it would. If a device so small and cheap could improve a car's economy and preformance that much, I'm positive that car manufacturers would have done it by now.

Also, I'm sure drilling a hole in your intake manifold would have nothing but negative side effects. Most of your car's equipment works off of the vacuum created in the manifold whole the engine is running, and introducing an extra hole--which wasn't designed to be there--would only reduce the vacuum, and reduce teh power and functionality of some of your accesories.
 
Smells like BS to me!

They don't even try to make up something scientific sounding about how it works. I'm guessing the most it does is sneak some extra air into the manifold to get the car to run a little lean.

I'll believe it when I see some independent verification.
 
Hmmm, adding extra unmetered (MAF equiped cars) air to the intake to:
Ecotek lies
causes air turbulence in the inlet manifold – known as either tumble or swirl technology - which improves engine efficiency and gives you all the benefits you'd expect from dramatically improved combustion
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........ So in other words its a more complex, more wasteful version of the turbonator system many gullable people have sworn by....... Seriously as others have said you could just drill a hole in the intake manifold and have the same negative effects this will give for free!

Ecotek
Double figure % Fuel savings
Iradicate acceleration flatspots.
Reduce Carbon Build up.
Improve Emissions.
Considerably improve throttle response.
Smoother running
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Lies lies lies......... wait..... Double figure fuel savings???? :lol:
 
Cheers guys, was just wondering about it as it seemed 'better' than the other 'widgets' in some way. So would it have NEGATIVE effects instead?
 
I'd say it's more likely that it'll have a negative effect than a positive one... and probably most likely that it won't have any noticeable effect.
 
Have a read of the following...


http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/non_broadcast/Adjudication+Details.htm?Adjudication_id=40177

..its the findings of a adjudication by the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK, Ekotek were forced to stop making all of the following claims in UK advertising....


  1. "PowerBoost restores your engine to the manufacturers [sic] specification, maintaining optimum levels of performance and economy";
  2. "More engine power";
  3. "Crisper acceleration";
  4. "Better throttle response";
  5. "Higher top speed" and
  6. "Reduced emissions".


...as they were not able to prove a single one of them.


This site may also be of interest.

http://www.fuelsaving.info/index.htm


Regards

Scaff
 
Oh my Lordy, Ecotek is one of the oldest scams in the book... a bunch of clubmates were actually gullible enough to buy a local version of that here... results?

Busted MAF Sensors... ahhhhh.... so there's a reason that tube isn't ventilated... :lol:
 

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