Revolutionary Firestorm Spark Plug

[Winterhawk]

It allows you to take an internal combustion engine from the standard 14.7:1 air-to-fuel ratio to an incredibly lean 24:1 and a 44% increase in fuel economy

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Firestorm.html

[Czekus21]

Looks pretty cool. I'll have to do some more research on these before I use them, but the theary is great. Imagine getting 60 - 70 MPG while bumping up to over a 100 HP in a 26 year old bike.

[mixelpix]

any idea where to get a set of four to try them out - sounds like it's still in the r&D phase...

[ratbyk]

Snake Oil

I have been a gear head for about 58 years. Seen things like this go by many many times. They really do not do what they claim. They just fire the fuel charge in the cylinder like any other good quality spark plug will.
If you have good compression, a decent fuel charge and a good spark at the right time, thats it. It does not get any better no matter what all of the snake oil salesman claims.
Ken/Sooke

[Geezer]

Re: Snake Oil

Originally posted by ratbyk
I have been a gear head for about 58 years. Seen things like this go by many many times. They really do not do what they claim. They just fire the fuel charge in the cylinder like any other good quality spark plug will.
If you have good compression, a decent fuel charge and a good spark at the right time, thats it. It does not get any better no matter what all of the snake oil salesman claims.
Ken/Sooke

The only thing I would add is that often these things aren't as good as a set of Bosch Platnium plugs that are cheaper...

Geezer

[fredintoon]

Oh boy!
Four Firestorm plugs anna Pogue carburettor and my XS11 will be passing everybody, will never need maintenence AND be getting 200mpg! What else could I need? Oh yeah, a snake oil injector.
Fred Hill, S'toon.

[rneal55555]

Sounds like that stuff you see on late night television in just a couple of hours and for just 19.95 a $99 dollar value you cam learn to make more money than you ever imagined by cleaning everything under the sun with one product that's not all we're going to throw in a couple of 200MPG spark plugs.

[Czekus21]

Hey now, Don't forget the free set of ginsu knives.

[grabberblue]

Not really snake oil, there is a lot of truth in some of the claims.

How do you think Japaneese cars get better gas mileage and more HP stan standard old technology. Putting two spark plugs in the cumbustion chamber gives two spark kernells and better chance of complete burning of the fuel mixture.

Mighty high claims they are making, but there might actually be some small increase in MPG/HP.
Time will tell.....

[ratbyk]

Wild Claims

John, there is a bridge in Brooklyn they are trying to sell.
Ken/Sooke

[Bud Manley]

How will a spark burn better in a chamber than the gigantic fireball created by the gas/air mixture?

[grabberblue]

Ken, are you the current oowner? How long have you had it?

[Geezer]

Originally posted by grabberblue
Mighty high claims they are making, but there might actually be some small increase in MPG/HP.
Time will tell.....

That's the big lie theory. If you tell a lie big enough even though most people will see through it, they will think there must be some small grain of truth in it because people just don't tell big lies like that. This theory is well documented and unfortunately worked well for A. Hitler. It seems that bike lie theory works well for snake oil salesmen too…

Geezer

[ratbyk]

Bridge

Don't hold the title. Just the sale rights. Going cheap. Great place for a money making toll booth.
Ken/Sooke

[grabberblue]

No, I do not believe any of the big lie, just as I stated some of the technogloy has merit to it. A bigger spark does increase the flame front to ignite air/fuel mixture.
Do you remember around 1975 when all the auto makers switched to high voltage ingition systems? This created the avilability from spark plug gaps to go from .032" to .065"
Can you guess why? Simple: bigger hotter spark, not snake oil but technology.
All you belivers in snake oil must still be using IBM 8088 or Commidore computers beacuse you cannot understand techonogy. Very little has changed in spark plug technology in 100 years, one being the gap, another other being the substraights used in the manufacture of the cores, copper, platinum etc., another would be the size of the center electrode.
3 or 4 changes in 100 years and someone tries to improve it and a bunch of fogies start thumming down. Open your mind try new things, experiment a little a whole world might open up to you.
A lot of new technology comes from racing, see what they are using and doing, racers want the hottest biggest spark possible. They even index the plugs acording to the position of the grounding electrode in relation to the head.
It takes time to make technological advances, high voltage transistorized ingntions were around a long time before they were ever used in production vheciles in 1975, before then it was considered "snake oil" to some.