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Naked Gonad expressed precisely :
> Thanks for the info.The trouble is, that I'm getting mixed answers,depending 
> which report I read.There doesn't seem to be a definitive and straight answer 
> to this.

There do not seem to be any straight answers available, the only clues 
seem to be the fact that people are experimenting and freely publishing 
their designs.

> I wish there were an independent board who could give categoric answers to 
> these queries,like mpg difference per model and all the fors and againsts of 
> a conversion.Also is there any hidden long term adverse affects on 
> say,catalytic converters(will they deteriorate quicker etc).

The only figures I could find were those of companies trying to sell 
the kits. Those who are amateurs who are experimenting seem to suggest 
the kits are a complete waste of money and achieve nothing.

Looking at it logically, it is yet another form of perpetual motion - 
except for the fact that they experimenters insist it does work.

Basically you use petrol to turn the engine, the engine generates 
electrical power via the alternator. The electrical power is used to 
turn water into HHO or Brown's gas, which is extremely explosive, the 
same gas as is given off by your battery when it is fully charged. You 
add the gas to your intake manifold and it burns along with the petrol.

So the only possible way it can work is for it to make the combustion 
process much more efficient and only then if you can fool your ECU into 
working with the more efficient combustion process. Older carburettor 
engines can be run as is, without any such changes, so I understand. 
The changes involves adding a small gadget to the oxygen sensor, to 
adjust its voltage - or re-mapping the ECU.

What does work without any doubt and without any modifications, is a 
regular dose of injector cleaner once a year - or at least it has 
worked wonders on my 3L car for this the second year of using it. It 
boosted the mpg from low 20's last year to around 27mpg. I have just 
used it again last week and seen the same thing happen, all as 
indicated by the fuelling computer. The difference the first time was 
quite gradual over the use of a tankful, but this time it was almost 
instant - over a distance of 8 or so miles from adding the stuff along 
with a good increase in engine performance.

I last used it about ten years ago on my current cars predecessor and 
saw no noticeable difference.

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        Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk