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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 07:36 AM
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Fitch Fuel catalysts ?

Thumbing through the summit racing catalog, I came across Fitch Fuel Catalysts and was curious if anyone used it?

http://store.summitracing.com/egnsea...=401348+323680

http://www.levineautoparts.com/fitch.html
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 07:49 AM
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snake oil.

Ok, lets see, it takes a refinery with acres of equipment to take raw petro-chemical product to aforementioned 93 octane.Hmm, now a canister no larger then a fuel filter is able to increase the concentration of polycyclic aromatics in your fuel, bull poop!!!
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 08:05 AM
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and its a direct fit for Lexus/Izuzu from 1.5l to 4.7l? Looks like just a filter to me.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 08:33 AM
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apparently there is even a capsule you drop in your tank for some applications.


from http://www.pmcycles.com/magreviews.htm

Musclecarblog.com & Truckblog.com
"With fuel economy being first and foremost on the minds of most Americans, it's easy to be caught up in the bolt-on modifications that claim to get better fuel mileage. When we added the Fitch Fuel Catalyst to Muscle Car Blog's Project "Pony Up", an 07 Ford Mustang GT, we found something that actually boosted our project vehicles average highway mileage from 24 to 27 miles per gallon, which is outstanding for a high performance muscle car. " We noticed an audible change in the vehicle's idle within 20 seconds of the initial startup that could only be described as smoothing out."
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by miminut
Ok, lets see, it takes a refinery with acres of equipment to take raw petro-chemical product to aforementioned 93 octane.Hmm, now a canister no larger then a fuel filter is able to increase the concentration of polycyclic aromatics in your fuel, bull poop!!!
I question it as well and figured someone here had heard, seen or tried it.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 08:40 AM
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I call BS on this snake oil, at least it doesn't try and use suedo science to sell it.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 03:23 PM
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perhaps a bottle of redbull would be good, or mabe instead of oil try peanut butter. seems greasy enough....what a garbage product
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 04:14 PM
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They had this on a recent episode of Horse Power TV. They did engine dyno runs with and without using different octance gas. I forget the actual results but they were favroable. Again this was on Horse Power TV so it's like Tony Little telling you the benefits of exercise equipment.
 
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