spiralmax

[Mike Pilkenton]

Wow, what a reply!  They are obviously marketers and not very good
scientists.  Maybe they watch too much Star Trek!  We all know the "laws" of
physics don't change, just our understanding of the complexities.  These
spiral products are a waste of money and absolutely ridiculous to the
have-way intelligent.  Just my 2 cents.

Mike Pilkenton
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Willis <darkmonahue at awwwsome.com>
To: Daniel Peper <ace486 at cyberg8t.com>
Cc: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>;
list <toyota-mods at cyberauto.com>
Date: Saturday, December 26, 1998 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: spiralmax


>
>
>Daniel Peper wrote:
>
>> Have any of you guys heard of a product called SpiralMax, its a piece of
>> metal that has fixed blades on it and you put it inside the intake hose
and
>> it supposedly swirls the air causing a turbocharge type of effect.  their
>> webpage is at http://www.spiralmax.com/
>>
>> I just want to know what you guys think.
>>
>> On a second note, I wrote them an email saying I was skeptical, and this
is
>> what I got as a reply, I almost can't believe it.
>>
>> "You're young, and you are hard to part with your
>> money that is the reason why you are so skeptic, it is not that you are
>> skeptic because you are a scholar or scientist. That category of people
>> are skeptic of everything, laws of physics and chemistry take a change
>> every so many years. You are also making assumptions on a subject you
>> know nothing of, i.e. that you are the most skeptic of all my customers,
>> what do you know to say that? We have had 100's of thousands of
>> inquiries, do you know all of them? Your remark is emotional then, as
>> Spock would say, illogical. Just the facts, is the way to go."
>>
>> I think someone needs to work a little more on their customer relation
>> skills.
>>
>> Just for that I probably won't buy the product.
>
>Daniel,
>
>Holy Turbulence! You made my night. Just when I thought humans were
>progressing, a bozo like this comes along...first off, to insult a
potential
>customer AND state that the "laws of physics and chemistry take a change
>every so many years"...unbelievable.
>  But to sell a product like this?  Well, they must sell some, as they have
a
>lot of advertising, which isn't cheap.  But this thing has to be a joke.
>  I HAVE seen products that are similar for the Harley-Davidson market.
>They are little brass inserts with blades that are bent so as to impart a
spin
>to the incoming air. The difference is that these are installed AFTER the
>carburetor, and are intended to improve air/fuel atomization (a noble
quest)
>by tumbling the mixture. I don't see how disturbing "dry" air in an
otherwise
>smooth path can possibly improve the intake charge, especially that far up-
>stream of the fuel.
>  I will also forward this to an EFI mailing list and see if I can get any
>input
>from them. There are some genuine rocket scientists on that list and they
>might know something we don't.
>
>Thanks for a good laugh -
>
>Aaron
>