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Subject:Re: Who wants to be the guinea pig?
From:Jim Akiba
Date:Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:51:00 -0400

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> Snake Oil, with all caps, pure and simple. �Think about it. �A given engine. �Supposedly increase power, and at the same time increase mpg. �sure, and the laws of thermodynamics are instantly repealed.

Power increase + mpgs over stock is pretty straightforward if you have
fueling/spark control, power increase + mpgs + lower emissions is the
impossible one.  In any case, while fooling the ECU into thinking it's
colder intake air than it actually is can yield a decent result (or
not depending on the individual strategy), it's a complete hack, and
the risk is owned entirely by the purchaser. I would suppose that
their 30,000 listed applications are everything they could pull from a
given database, and as they make $60 on each packaged resistor they
send out, if it doesn't work it comes off the list and they lose
almost nothing.

Jim Akiba
Bostig Inc.

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