Hi all is this a joke ?
Has anyone ever heard of this product before?
What’s your thoughts on it
Apparently you just pop them into your fuel tank and job done, here’s the write up on them
THE FORMULA POWER FUEL CATALYST
This will allow any engine designed to run on leaded petrol to run safely on normal pump unleaded 95 octane fuel.
The fuel catalyst has the desired effect of raising the octane lubricating the engine and burning at a slightly lower burn temperature.
There is no need to use a liquid additive or to retard the ignition timing or to fit hardened valve seats
The fuel catalyst is a tin amalgam and follows very closely to the original Royal Air Force receipe which was developed to combat poor quality and low octane fuel.
This product is not unique to us, there are a few companies producing a similar product but we hope you will be impressed with our honesty about this product.
It simply is placed into the petrol tank of any car or motor cycle and then only 95 unleaded fuel needs to be used.
Lead was put into petrol in 1936 to stop the KNOCK this product was developed in 1941 for the Royal Air Force.
HOW LONG DOES IT LAST? Some companies claim unbelievable mileage but you cannot claim this as cars and motor cycles differ in the amount of fuel they consume.
We therefore state that our product will be good for 100,000 miles.
We give a 6000 mile test period, a full refund if you are not satisfied and a £1,000,000 product liability insurance underwritten at Lloyds.
ONE FINAL POINT IF YOU LEAVE YOUR CAR OR MOTOR CYCLE FOR MONTHS ON END WITHOUT USING IT THE FORMULA POWER FUEL CATALYST WILL KEEP THE FUEL FRESH AND STOP IT BECOMING STALE.
MADE IN BRITAIN MADE IN BRITAIN MADE IN BRITAIN
Is this real does this actually work?
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Its utter horseshit. Honestly, dont worry about unleaded fuels unless you have concourse 50s car. Just run a decent octane and move on as even lead additives dont stop the ethanol corrosion of the fuel lines and the like.
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Re: Is this real does this actually work?
Junk. definitely junk.
Leaded gasoline was produced by taking a compound called TEL and some other fun stuff, and adding it to gasoline. The synthesis process for TEL is non-trivial. You'd need a refining facility to produce, distill and then introduce it to gasoline.
There are other anti-knock agents, like MMT, that are still in use today, but none of those agents would ever be introduced into the fuel system in the way this clown describes (as solid balls added to the fuel tank, LOL).
The particular junk-science this guy is peddling revolves around "tin amalgam". Basically mercury and tin. Don't put this in your gasoline, please.
It's worth pointing out that anyone offering to sell you something to add to your gasoline that promises to "burn cleaner" is probably a grifter. That simply isn't how the chemistry bears out. Fancy words like "Catalyst" do not a chemist make. As a general rule, the more crap you "add" to fuel the less "clean" it will burn. It may be more performant, but it certainly won't be cleaner.
Energy companies, manufacturers of all kinds, and race teams spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually funding research into additives, stabilizers and related products. No random shlub on ebay is going to have a solution that they haven't thought of and tried already.
EDIT:
I also LOVE what he says here LOL:
I'm sorry, what?
So this guy is saying you can't reliably estimate any similar products' effective lifespan, because it depends on how much fuel you use and how much you drive....And then he immediately does this himself and claims an unbelievable 100 thousand MILES.
By the time anyone put 100 thousand hard driven UK miles on an antique VW beetle, their sedan will have rusted into a pile of iron dust. You'd have nothing left but these precious little fuel "balls" (stainless steel marbles, no doubt). haha.
Leaded gasoline was produced by taking a compound called TEL and some other fun stuff, and adding it to gasoline. The synthesis process for TEL is non-trivial. You'd need a refining facility to produce, distill and then introduce it to gasoline.
There are other anti-knock agents, like MMT, that are still in use today, but none of those agents would ever be introduced into the fuel system in the way this clown describes (as solid balls added to the fuel tank, LOL).
The particular junk-science this guy is peddling revolves around "tin amalgam". Basically mercury and tin. Don't put this in your gasoline, please.
It's worth pointing out that anyone offering to sell you something to add to your gasoline that promises to "burn cleaner" is probably a grifter. That simply isn't how the chemistry bears out. Fancy words like "Catalyst" do not a chemist make. As a general rule, the more crap you "add" to fuel the less "clean" it will burn. It may be more performant, but it certainly won't be cleaner.
Energy companies, manufacturers of all kinds, and race teams spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually funding research into additives, stabilizers and related products. No random shlub on ebay is going to have a solution that they haven't thought of and tried already.
EDIT:
I also LOVE what he says here LOL:
HOW LONG DOES IT LAST? Some companies claim unbelievable mileage but you cannot claim this as cars and motor cycles differ in the amount of fuel they consume.
We therefore state that our product will be good for 100,000 miles.
I'm sorry, what?
So this guy is saying you can't reliably estimate any similar products' effective lifespan, because it depends on how much fuel you use and how much you drive....And then he immediately does this himself and claims an unbelievable 100 thousand MILES.
By the time anyone put 100 thousand hard driven UK miles on an antique VW beetle, their sedan will have rusted into a pile of iron dust. You'd have nothing left but these precious little fuel "balls" (stainless steel marbles, no doubt). haha.