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Hi,
I’ve got a VIX Scientific Gas Saver. A google search turned up an expired auction for a sign.
I think this is likely to not actually work as well as advertised. I’m keeping it as a curiosity. I have never known it to be on T.
What do you think it’s worth?
What do you know about other similar devices?
Thank you,
Greg

Here is a link to a similar item .. Thanks to Jay for posting all those accessory of the day threads ...

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/203873.html

I like the little blip in the circular that say 20-50% kerosene can be added to your gas, like gas didn't have enough kerosene in it at that time.

True enough Mark, but kerosene was much cheaper than gasoline nonetheless. (and no road tax !). It was common well into the 1950s for gasoline tractors to be fitted with two tanks, winterfronts and adaptations to enable them to run on "low-cost fuel" kerosene, fuel oils, etc. saving "expensive" gasoline for starting or cold weather operation. I had a Case model D set up that way (built 1947).

Pa's whirligig ran on whale oil. He had to fly the thing to Canada to get fuel.
It started lots of fires whenever he got close to the ground. It used an old Hudson
six, but I was too young to have paid attention to how it was fed.

Thanks for the link Donnie.

Interesting that you don't shut it off with the switch when using this type of thing.

I might just hang it on the wall now.

An EFV8 guy gave me this a few years back. I imagine the two items give a similar level of improvement to your car’s economy.

Even though their open screens you're still adding an impediment to fuel/air flow. Can't see what good it'll do really.

Charlie B in N.J. wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 05, 2019 10:48 am

Even though their open screens you're still adding an impediment to fuel/air flow. Can't see what good it'll do really.

I'll bet it's even odds Charlie. Flow is impeded, but the fuel is vaporized better. At moderate speeds the theory was that better fuel economy would result. Better performance ? Not so much. If it had been a marked improvement, it would have become original equipment on many makes of cars.

In post WWI "lousey gas" days, Packard used a carburetor addendum they called the "Fuelizer". Part of the intake mix was drawn into an aluminum manifold which pre-heated the intake charge. It was fired by a single spark plug that had its own full-time connection to the coil.