spiralmax

[Raymond C Drouillard]

It sounds like a product that I see advertised in some car mags.  Anyone
familiar with the Tornado?

It's amazing what people try to pass to the unsuspecting public.  Anyonw
wanna buy some swamp land in Florida?  :)

Ray Drouillard


On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:32:57 -0800 Aaron Willis
<darkmonahue at awwwsome.com> writes:
>
>
>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

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