omg! that website had me rolling on the floor!

now... do we put these brass ***** up the exhaust pipe so they give the resistance of back pressure? when at higher rpm they eject so it gives a sudden blast opens up the top end to give a nitrous like experience?

 

That is not analogous. In the soda bottle demonstration, the vortex speeds up the flow because there is a bidrectional flow. Basically, you have to swap the contents of one bottle with the contents of the other. By getting the liquid spinning, it will leav a hole in the middle that allows the gas to run up to the other bottle. In an engine, the air only has to move in one direction. If you want better flow, you'll need to minimize turbulence or increase the cross-sectional area of the intake system. Polishing the insides of airtubes, using mathematically developed bends (ususally based off the hyperbolic trig functions), and increasing the size of the throttle body might help with that.

Furthermore, if it provides more air to the engine as claimed in the ad, the same effect can be achieved by dialing a leaner mixture into the cylinders. And after a few dozen miles of driving, the effect would disappear anyway, since the computer would start pushing toward a richer mix to maintain proper tuning for emmissions.

And don't even get me started on the magnetic BS. You might be able to align the nuclear spin of most of the hydrogen and a trace amount of the carbon, but that will have no measurable effect on the translational motion of the fuel through the lines. And the organization will decay in a matter of milliseconds, anyway.

 

Eh, I would have thought that the Air Razr vortex generator in my mouth would have been the giveaway....

 

Off topic, but...

morale, not moral. Thought you might want to know... Good action by the way. I'm in the military and it's my preferred course of action.