This is one of the few magic gas savers that sounds plausible.
I am no chemist but, as I understand it, platinum is a catalyst
and as such is not actually consumed in the burning of fuel.
Platinum spark plugs seem to have worth and platinum catalytic
converters work for sure to reduce hydrocarbon emissions.
If this works maybe platinum coated rotors would help.
Seems to me the mixture must be leaned to take advantage
of this. More fuel burned in the combustion chamber... more
air must be introduced.
However platinum is around $900 an ounce.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
I don't know.
http://www.epa.gov/OMS/consumer/devices/pb92104413.pdf
An excerpt:
"6. Testing by EPA: A detailed report of the testing performed by the
EPA is given in EPA report, EPA-AA-TEB-91-2, “Emissions and Fuel
Economy Effects of the Platinum Gasaver, a Retrofit Device” provided
as Attachment A.
A brief description of, this testing effort is given below: “Three
typical vehicles were tested at EPA’s Motor Vehicle Emission
Laboratory. The basic test sequence included 2,000 miles of mileage
accumulation, replicate Federal Test Procedures (FTP) and replicate
Highway Fuel Economy Tests (HFET). This test sequence was conducted
both without and with the Platinum Gasaver installed.”
7. Conclusion: “The overall conclusion from these tests is that the
Platinum Gasaver did not significantly change vehicle emissions or fuel
economy for either the FTP or HFET.
Device clearly did not produce the large -- greater than 2.0 percent --
fuel economy benefits claimed by the manufacturer. Therefore, users of
the device would not be expected to realize either an emission or fuel
economy benefit. Vehicle operation and performance were unchanged by
the device”.
I will wait until somebody else buys it and come with something
different from that report.
Alfonso
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Good work Alfonso. Thanks for finding that.
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Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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