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You know the ones. You fit them in the servo pipe and they turn your Yugo into a rocket ship. My Primera has one and all it seems to do is make a really irritating gurgling noise.
Has anyone had any positive experiences with them or is it, as common sense would suggest, a load of old guff?
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Mike D
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One was fitted to my Colt GTi when i bought it. It was curse word. Bin it immediately for the performance upping win  |
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starionturbo
Part of things
Is planning mental turbo action MU HUH HUH!!!
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You know the ones. You fit them in the servo pipe and they turn your Yugo into a rocket ship. My Primera has one and all it seems to do is make a really irritating gurgling noise. Has anyone had any positive experiences with them or is it, as common sense would suggest, a load of old guff?As highlighted. "chavs, poverty spec saxo owning barrys" (see seem to think they add BHP  Utter waste of money IMO |
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RUBBISH!
My mate had one on his Escort, it ruined fuel economy and made it unable to idle when warm. Zero power gains too.
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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Bin bin bin. Every time. There are no free power gains to be had, only common sense tuning. (prepares to be shot down by plenty of examples proving otherwise)
Thinking about it, I suppose ground effect in F1, i.e. using the underbody to generate almost drag free downforce, was a free gain. Not really in power though. Thinking about it even more, Tyrell found that the huge sticky up airboxes that started sprouting on F1 cars gave a big increase in power from their DFVs without any real penalty. Not really in the same league as an Ecotek valve though.
I'm going off to buff my F1 book collection and look at seventies Grand Prix car photos.
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 Ooooooo yea. Lafitte showing them how it's done. |
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And a bit of the flying Scotsman:  What were we talking about again? |
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I can't believe they're still selling these, talking of smoke and mirrors merchants. www.broquet.co.uk/ |
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Selling it to an ebay clown would seem the best approach.
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I've got a device that, erm, poliarises your fuel. You clip it around the fuel line and it rotates the hydrogen atoms in any kind of fuel so they fit through the valves better. It's only £39.99 plus postage, anyone want one? It takes 5 weeks to start showing any benefit though, due to the well-known effects of running non-polarised fuel. Comes with a free 4-week money-back guarantee.
* Pillock goes to unclip a load of RF filters from his computer cables....
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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I had one on a mkIII astra sport years back. I did back to back runs on my local private road with it working and with it screwed shut. I got a slight performance increase with it working and was all excited, then later realised that for the runs I did with the thing working, my mate wasnt in the passenger seat. Doh. so much for empirical testing.
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1986 Panda 4x4.
1990 Metro Sport.
1999 Ford Escort estate.
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I've got a device that, erm, poliarises your fuel. You clip it around the fuel line and it rotates the hydrogen atoms in any kind of fuel so they fit through the valves better. It's only £39.99 plus postage, anyone want one? It takes 5 weeks to start showing any benefit though, due to the well-known effects of running non-polarised fuel. Comes with a free 4-week money-back guarantee. * Pillock goes to unclip a load of RF filters from his computer cables.... Many's the time I've been sat on the hard shoulder of the M6 at midnight in the curse word rain with a non-functioning car that cut out on me and had the RAC man arrive and say "It's yer fuel mate. It's not polarised enough." |
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don't forget to rotate your indicator bulbs every 3000 miles for a free power gain.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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don't forget to rotate your indicator bulbs every 3000 miles for a free power gain. clockwise or anti clockwise? |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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clockwise or anti clockwise? Doesn't really matter, just make sure its 720 oThat's just a cruel wind-up. Everyone knows 360degrees will work just as well with only half the effort ;D |
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If you want to be REALLY trick, higher wattage quantum bulbs in the rear compared to the front will cause low pressure photons to suck the car forwards making it faster at night (avoid lit areas for maximum benefit)
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Ethical question for you. You list your ecotek valve on ebay with a vague "it was on a car I bought" explanation and, within minutes, someone asks why you removed it and was because of the noise. Do you reply:
i) yes it was partly the noise AND ALSO BECAUSE IT'S curse word! or
ii) it's not really noisy, it's just not really my thing. I like my cars standard.
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stealthstylz
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Say that you have a problem controlling the violent torque steer encountered when the Ecoktek is fitted.
Matt
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Utter waste of money IMO
