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5 Simple''Affordable Steps to Unlocking Your Vehicle's Potential

Skeptical? Good! You should beas many promises as we hear today about pieces and parts that will change our world. Howevertake heart. What we will be discussing here are five separate proven methods to increase both performance and mileageand will help increase the life of your engine while reducing repair costs and frequency.

Currentlyyour vehicle utilizes about 20% - 25% of that expensive fuel you buy to create forward motion. The other 75% - 80% collects in various parts of your engine as carbon deposits or in your catalytic converter. The whole purpose of your catalytic converter is to collect all of that unburned fuel and prevent as much as possible from being ejected into the air as emissionswhich we all know is ineffective to a large degree. Our mission is to BURN that unused expensive fuelnot waste it and shorten our engine life! Sohow do we do that?!

Let's start by addressing your Air Intake System inefficiencies. Your vehicle provides a basic air flow for intakebut lacks efficiency in how it provides that air flow into the air-fuel mixture. Mass Air Flowas measured and monitored by your MAF sensorfree flows controlled volumes of air into your engine. The O2 sensorsusually located before and after the catalytic converter measure the O2 levels in the exhaust. Your vehicle computer takes these and other readings to adjust the air-fuel mixtureleaning or increasing the amount of fuel injected into the engine. The problem is that you areby federal lawsprevented from tampering with or altering anything on the computerso knowing that their are gross inefficiencieswe must find a 'work around' to optimize this mix.

The first easy and affordable change we will make is to the AITthe Air Intake Temperature sensor. For the sake of brevity in this articleI will not explain the complexities of the AIThow it interacts with the computeror our new add-on partbut will provide a simple suggestion and result. The AIT is generally located on the intake manifold. In 90% of vehiclesit is a simple 2 wire plug. In some vehiclesonly about 10%it will be integrated into the MAFor Mass Airflow sensorwhich is usually a 5 wire plug. Ask at an auto parts store or search online for a performance chip that is made for your specific vehicle that connects to your AIT. This is a very easy installand depending on the specific chip and your vehiclethe result can be 50+ HP gain50+ pounds of torque gainand 4 - 6 MPG increase. Larger engines produce more horsepowertorqueand mileage gains.

The second affordable boost comes from changing how the air is flowed into the engine. Locating a throttle body spacer for your vehicle can be another very effective method of providing you the gains you want across the board. When looking at the large number of available spacerspay special attention to the design. The most effective designs act as a turbine with no moving parts. You want the throttle body spacer to create a vortex as the air passes through it. This simple vortex effect can noticeably improve your performance and mileagewith up to 20 - 30 HP gains and another 3 -4 MPG increase.

As we move into the third changewe also move into the fuel system. The third change that you should consider is a two-foldextremely inexpensive change. It has been a well-known fact for many years that magnets around your fuel line increase performance and mileage. This is true because the magnetic field ionizes the fuel to enable a cleanermore efficient burn. In conjunctionheating your fuel also assists in many of the same ways. Using your radiator hoses to heat your fuelor any form of fuel heating system that will preheat your fuel lines along with a magnetized fuel line will show you positive increases in both performance and mileage. If your fuel is enabled to burn more efficientlyof course the result is that more of your fuel is being used to create forward motion (performance); and if more of the fuel is being burned to create forward motionless fuel is needed to create that forward motion (mileage).

How do you accomplish this two-fold boost affordably? You can reroute rubber radiator hoses and/or the fuel lineif necessaryto allow the rubber (only rubber) radiator hoses to contact or be wrapped with your fuel lines. You can also find some flexible magnets to wrap around your fuel lines using zip tiesif needed. You do not need to wrap the entire fuel lineonly a 1 - 5 inch stretch as you find a space available. Even a small portion will create the fuel ionization needed to produce results. The stronger the magnetsthe better the ionizationthough.

The fourth change is probably the most drasticand can be achieved for anywhere between $40 to $50depending on how exotic you want to get. I would suggest that you look at realistically spending about $125 - $250 if you are not electrically or mechanically inclined. You can get by for about a third of that if you are more inclined than I am. The fourth change is also to your fuel systemand is a simple water for gas system. You are not looking for a system that will convert your vehicle to run on 100% waterbut one that utilizes the hydrogen produced from small quantities of water to assist in the air-fuel mixture process.

A water for gas systemalso called HHO or hydrogen boostersdoes not have to be expensive nor complicated to work very effectively with your current fuel. It can work on new or old vehicles; with carburetor or fuel injection; with gasdieselor turbo-diesel; and with or without vehicle computers. You are still creating the forward motion of your vehicle with your current fuelbut simply changing how that fuel is consumed and utilized. Hydrogen is the smallest particle knownand with a simple electrolysis processwe convert the H2O liquida molecular structure of H-O-Hinto a gaseous form of hydrogen and oxygenrestructured into H-H-O. Using a combination of our previous changesthis is what the process looks like: The hydrogen is extracted from this converted gaseous form of HHO and sent into the engine via the air intake. As the vortex of hydrogen enriched air coming through your throttle body spacer meets the preheated and ionized larger gas particles in the mistthe hydrogen air vortex slicesdicesand breaks the gas particles down into much smallerpreheatedionized particles that now burn incredibly more efficiently. This increases your usable fuel creating forward motion to about 80 - 90%leaving an extremely small amount being expelled into the atmosphere through emissions.

With these four changes aloneyou will notice significant power and performance increasesincredible mileage increasesand will most likely see about double your engine life in the long-term due to the cleaner burning process. Your emissions will be little more than unburned O2 with very little else. Nowhere is another point... if your car was manufactured after 1995 and/or uses a vehicle on board computerthere is one additional component needed. You can use one or the other but generally do not need both. You will need either a MAP sensor enhancer or an EFIE (Electronic Fuel Injection Enhancer). Either of these can be made or purchased for $20 - $100. This is the 'work around' mentioned earlier''enabling you to adjust the O2 sensor or lean mixture needed to realized long-term affects of your water for gas system. Without one of theseyour vehicle computer will sense the change after a couple tanks of gas and readjust the mixture disabling you from seeing the mileage gains first seen.

The fifth and final affordable change we will discuss within this article is the exhaust system. The methods used may have to varydepending on the state you live inbut the goal is the samehowever it is achieved... open the flow of your exhaust. The simplest and most affordable way to do this is to replace your stock exhaust manifolds with headers. Headers will open up the initial exhaust path from your enginehoweverif bottle-necked into a stock single exhaust pipewill still net almost zero results. In conjunction with the headers add-ontake the few extra dollars it will take to at least have your exhaust split into a dual exhaust system. Even if you add on an additional stock catalytic converter on the new side and have a new one put on the old or existing sideyou will have made an increased flow path. Less resistance exiting the engine will allow a free flow system enabling to realize some true performance and mileage gains.

Nowthere are many other increases that can help as wellincluding hotter coilshotter ignitions systemsintake manifold changesfuel injector or carburetor changes or modificationsand several othersbut many of these can become very costly. They are still recommendedbut not always the most affordable for the majority of peopleespecially when you start adding on outrageous labor charges for the installs if you are not mechanically inclined. For this reasonI have not gone into these other areasnot to mention this article would have to be well over 10000 wordsa bit voluminous for this forum.

Utilizing the fiveor even just the first foursuggestions provided hereyou should see some very impressive positive results in your vehicle powerperformanceand mileage. Except for some optional (but encouraged) exhaust system workall of these changes can be made in your garage or drivewayeven if you are not the mechanical genius. Be a smart consumer. Research each product and suggestion made here and make sure that you can achieve the goals that you have before just randomly buying the first product you see. There are several choices and manufacturers of each of these items. Take your timebe smart and drive satisfied!