Tornado for vehicles...for computers?

[Lummoxx]

Has anyone seen these? Tornado

Saw the informercial this morning, and I thought...hmm, what would happen if I put it in front of an intake fan on my computer?

Thoughts?

 

[Kato]

i think you can do it....if you can take the noise....
those fans should create lots of noise....

 

[Lummoxx]

I just went through the ordering process (didn't actually order), since it was the only way to get a price, that I saw.

About $80, including shipping. Pretty expensive...probably not worth the couple of degrees it would give you, IF that, ASSUMING it works.

Not worth the attempt, I'd say, unless you got one for your car, and put it on the computer first.

 

[Ugmore Baggage]

I doubt it even works on cars.

 

[Diggrr]

They do work (somewhat), by providing a better fuel air mix through turbulence. However, that's alot to pay for a fan blade with no motor....make your own. And never believe a seller's claims...anyone can run autocad, it doesn't make them qualified to design though.

I don't think they'd help much in a computer though, unless you trying to get the air fuel mix improved...

 

[The Overclocker]

it will not work in a computer, it works when the car is moving my disrupting the flow of air and increasing tubulance. it cannot be used on a stationary object!

 

[UT-100Si]

As far as I know this thing would only work for non Port Fuel Injected engines. In a PFI engine you WANT nice smooth air flow up to the intake port/valve. The less turbulence, the more the flow, the more air gets packed into the cylinder. The injectors are right down next the the intake ports anyway.
I don't think it would do anything in front of a fan 'cept maybe lower the air flow a little, and make it noisy.

 

[RoadWarrior]

... And my wife asks me why I save coffee cans, snip snip.........

 

[MiseryQ]

I just read something about this today... They have'nt been proven to reduce mileage or increase performance... Thay've been proven not to hurt those thing, so the epa say they're ok...

That's what I read,,, Never tried one...

And I would think you want smooth travel, small fuel particles and as much turbulence as possible in the combustion chamber...

 

[Starfoxer]

that may not work and may be a little extreme. i have some extreme cooling on my case though. a big 200+ cfm air
conditioner fan blowing right into my PC's open side.

 

[deadhead]

Yeah dude those things are a rip off. Consumer Reports did a column on them and they actually decrease MPG!!! And Car&Driver did a report also and it actually decreases HP!!!!!

 

[Diggrr]

I used a set of small homemade ones (similar design anyway) on my motorcycle. They helped some in the gas mileage, but again, that's not a fuel injected engine....I can't see how they'd help in that case. I've never tried to overclock a car.

But I have read that a swirl effect will aid in speeding fluid through a pipe, and maybe with air too? The author claimed this to be used for hydroelectric power plants before the turbine nozzle ....who really knows if they were full of beans though. It's not like it was a trusted source.

I still say though, that if you'd like to try it, make your own, don't buy them!

 

[RoadWarrior]

I think if you have an old design of engine block that wasn't particularly well gas flowed, then one of these might help it out, however, if you've got a decently modern engine with flowed ports, then they probably just take up intake area.

I just thought of an item that would be perfect to try in an air intake for an injection system, it's the top off one of those balls you put in the washing machine. There were some selling a few years back for a concentrated powder, not a liquid, that had a kinda swirly fan type thing in the top, maybe 3 inches across or so. Wish I had one around, I'll keep an eye out.


Road Warrior