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Ten 35
Fuel Treatment Tests
We get
many opportunities to test other companies’ fuel enhancement product, and
are always hopeful that we will find something that we can add to our
Hydrogen Boost System to improve the mileage gain we achieve. So far we have tested a number of fuel
and oil additives with little success.
This time we are testing Ten 35 Fuel Treatment combustion catalyst
burn rate modifies, lubricant and biocide, produced by Filtakleen Inc. in Sandy, Utah
and operating the web site www.filtakleen-usa.com
.
The
test was done on two test vehicles, a 1994 Chrysler Pacifica with a built
in mileage calculator, and a 1996 Saturn SL1 with a calibrated Scangauge calculating the trip mileage. Protocol was to travel 40 miles South
down I-87 from the Hudson River crossing south of exit 18 to the exit
ramp at exit 8, then a return trip North over the same section of road,
traveling at a constant 65 mph.
The trip mpg calculator is reset at the beginning of each test run
and the trip mpg readout is recorded at the end of each run. The intake air temperature was also
recorded for each run. Following
are the raw and calculated data.
Pacifica South TEMP North Temp Ave. comments
Baseline no additive23.4 50 24.8 50 24.1
Added 3/4oz. 23.9 55 24.8 65 24.35 1% warmer
Added 1 oz. 24.0 60 23.1 60 23.55 -2.3% lights
on
Added 1 oz. 24.8 70 25.1 70 24.55 1.9% warmer
22.8 50 23.6 50 23.2 -3.7% rain
Without additive 23.6 50 24.6 53 24.1 post baseline
Saturn
Baseline 42.0 50 42.6 50 42.3
Added 3/8 oz. 43.0 60 42.8 60 42.9 1.4% warmer 44.8 70 41.6 70 43.25 2.2% warmer
44.4 65 42.1 65 43.0 1.6% warmer
Added ½ oz. 43.8 68 42.3 68 43.1 1.9% warmer
Changed calibration of Scangauge
Added ½ oz. 47.7 89 50.0 89 48.85 -0.7% hot
46.7 81 47.0 68 46.85 -3.4% warm
Added ½ oz. 43.3 65 50.0 75 46.65 -3.8% warm
44.6 50 42.1 50 43.35 -10.6% baseline
temp
Without additive 49.5 65 47.5 73 48.5 post baseline new calibration
Discussion:
At
first there seemed like there may have been some benefit of using the
fuel additive, but upon analysis of the data it is clearly obvious that
the initial increases in mileage were due to the increase in
temperature. It wasn’t until the
weather cooled again, three weeks later, that we could confirm that the mileage
at the same temperature but with the fuel additive was not improved at
all. In fact the Pacifica showed the same mileage with
and without the additive but the Saturn showed about 4% less mileage with
the additive that without.
What we
can take from this analysis is that mileage of both vehicles improved
with intake air temperature increase by about 1% better mpg for every 10
degrees of temperature increase.
Another conclusion we can clearly make is that rain does not
increase mileage as some people think, but decreases mileage relatively
proportionate to the depth of standing water on the road and density of
the water in the air.
Conclusion
Ten 35 Fuel Treatment additive did NOT increase
mileage on either of the cars tested, but at least it didn’t cause a
decrease like the BioPerformance pills we
tested and reported on in our May 2006 newsletter, or the decrease in
mileage caused by the Nano Energizer fuel
additive we tested and reported on in our January 2007 newsletter, but
more of a wash like the tests we did on Ethos Fuel Reformer additive that
we reported on in our December 2004 newsletter. We are still looking for a real fuel
mileage enhancement fuel additive.
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