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  1. 25 mpg, mixed highway/city. (221k, SUS), just calculated from recent roadtrip
  2. http://www.jefflubchanskycpa.com/RBMN1546PTCLNTNPA-JU1-02DG8.jpg
  3. nah, I'm not evil enough. and speaking of material science abuse, I know, my conscience had hard time letting me even type it..., But that's exactly the point, if yo throw some cool words into an ad, regardless of the legibility of content, there's always someone who will think "I don't know WTF does any of that mean, but it sounds too cool to be fake" on other hand, this one isn't much different in terms of BS per square inch of page.. http://www.fuelmags.com/index.php .... just sad .. I mean, if you are an auto mechanic, and you see a customer, who came into garage complaining about some engine problem he or she is having, and then you see a magnet clamped to fuel line, would you pass an opportunity to charge 10x and justify it by "need to tune up the Carma field of solenoid" or something... Isn't there a law or something that prohibits scams like that???
  4. Here's another one, came up with it this morning: Disclaimer: Below is a load of BS, such product does not exist, will not exist, and physically cannot exist, though some day, someone, might try to sell it anyway . "Why spend 1000s of hard earn $$$ on expensive intakes, noisy turbos and other last century technology. We live in 21st century! There are modern high tech ways of improving your car performance, while reducing emissions.Try the new product of our next generation car tech, the H2Infusser sticker. Product requires no professional installation. All you have to do, is to fill up full tank of gas, take a soft lint-free cloth, soak it in cleaning solution and clean a patch of your gas tank on outside of the tank. Than peel of protective layer off H2Infusser sticker, and apply the sticker to cleaned gas tank area. On inside of the sticker is a hydrogen saturated surface. Once it comes into contact with metal, gas tank surface acts as a catalyst for reaction and hydrogen is released from the sticker. Hydrogen gas has ability do diffuse through metals. Thus, since other side of the sticker is special film, that is impermeable for hydrogen, it has nowhere to go but into gas tank. Unlike in water, hydrogen gas will no accumulate at the top of the tank, but will attach itself to benzene molecules by weak nuclear forces and stay diffused in gasoline. after gasoline takes its trip to engine cylinder, compression stroke of the engine will compress gas mixture, which will raise mixture temperature to a point at which hydrogen breaks off benzene molecules and then, after spark is fired, it burns just like gasoline does, except it produces significantly more energy, causing much more powerful push on a piston head, thus more power, and of course, since it's hydrogen, it produces water as byproduct. However, the amount of that water in so small, that there is no need to change catalytic converters or muffler. Amount of hydrogen per 6.25 sq. inch sticker is enough to 'upgrade' ~200 liters of gasoline. How often you have to change stickers, depends on your car gas tank and car millage (which is now going to be much better thanks to sticker). Avoid using other fuel additives while using H2Infusser:cool:"
  5. with good imagination ANY performance mod is possible, for example, "easiest way to improve your car milage! Save money on gas! This upgrade creates very high frequency vibrations of air within car tire, forming a thin region of lower viscosity air on inner surface of your tires, thus reducing the energy required to overcome rotating momentum (due to shear stresses) of the air by reducing friction between tire surface and air inside" Notice how here it doesn't even matter if any of mentioned physics principles have anything to do with reality. In fact, I'm pretty sure, that if someone would come up with a flashy name for that "mod" and some convincing method of inducing tire vibrations, without making it look like a too obvious scam, I guarantee it would sell.
  6. On eBay, anything can sell, because majority of consumers buy things on impulse, before doing due diligence check. And what is even worse, they still leave a positive feedback, because of concern for the feedback that seller will leave. There should be a dedicated thread for eBay, internet junk/semijunk and misleading products in general.
  7. I was browsing for potential upgrades for Legacy L '98, and stumbled upon this page: http://www.yourhotcar.com/product/list/1998/Subaru/Legacy/Performance_Parts/Performance_Chips/ It looks like something one could get off eBay and make anyone who sees it under the hood laugh out loud. Or is it something that is worth looking at? They make pretty bold statements, like +35HP and +40HP, so bottom two alone theoretically give around additional 70HP. Does anyone have them? What's the common wisdom on such upgrades?
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