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Thursday, March 17, 2005

My Review on "Khaos Super Turbo Charger"

"Khaos Super Turbo Charger" - A Filipino invention that claims that your Gasoline powered car will save from 20~50% on fuel, increase power, and 0% emission when installed.
Retail price for the unit is PHP6,500.00 and distributors are all around the metropolis.

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Being an automotive junkie, I just had to find out all about this "revolutionary" product.
Fist of all, KSTC works by bleeding air into the intake manifold whenever the IM vacuum reaches a certain level. This vacuum is the force which sucks fuel from the idle fuel jet of the carburetor. By bleeding air in, the IM vacuum decreases, as well as the fuel flow in the jet. Thus fuel savings, better combustion and more power.

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Well, the ideal stoichiometric air fuel ratio for gasoline is 14.7:1 by weight. If the fuel and air is properly mixed and the ratio is 14.7:1, 100% combustion is achieved thus maximum power is harnessed and harmful emission is minimized. In a carburetor engine, the air and fuel mixture is governed by a venturi meter. This uses the Bernouli's principle to achieve a correct air-fuel ratio at any speed. The problem is during idling and low engine speeds, there is not enough air flow to produce a good mixture so the remedy is the Idle jet that will supply extra fuel to compensate. This is driven by the intake manifold vacuum, like I have said before. This produces a very rich air fuel ratio and is not very ideal. KSTC bleeds air to correct the A:F ratio for better combustion.

Effective?

I believe the principle can be applicable ONLY to carburetor equipped engines and early EFI engines with "open loop" system (No Oxygen sensor type). Closed loop fuel management system has an oxygen sensor mounted at the exhaust manifold. When this sensor detects oxygen at the exhaust, the computer thinks that the air fuel mixture is lean and will order the fuel injectors to inject more fuel. This system makes KSTC ineffective.

For carbureted engines, introducing more air into the combustion chamber creates a lean A:F mixture and a lean A:F mixture produces more NOx Gas due which is also harmful to the environment, though carbon monoxide is minimized.

Why do I think this is crap?
The name itself is deceiving. A "Turbo Charger" works by harnessing the energy from the exhaust gas by installing a turbine so as the exhaust gas exits, it will rotate a turbine which is then coupled to an air compressor to compress the air moving into the intake of the engine. This system, instead of normal atmospheric pressure pushing air into the engine, more air can enter the engine so more fuel can be burned so more power is produced. KSTC simply bleeds air in, the generic name for this device is "Air Bleeder". I found a similar product which works the same principle http://turbomizer.com/_wsn/page2.html .
Another claim that makes my criticism hormones jump is when they said "Zero Emissions". Technically this is impossible. What goes in must come out.
One more thing, almost all EFi engines are equipped with an oxygen sensor so this makes KSTC useless to most cars.

Would I recommend this?
Yes, I would recommend this product to old cars. Since old cars are carbureted and have a very fucked up A:F ratio, installing this will greately improve fuel consumption and over-all performance of the car. But it would still be nothing compared to new cars.

This is only my opinion, based on facts that I have gathered regarding this product.
Pero kung ako may 6,500 papa tune up ko nalang sa casa auto ko, then may sukli pa pang bile ng goodies pang pa pogi ng car...

Monday, March 14, 2005

Tonsillectomy and Food Choices

It's only the second day after my tonsillectomy and it still feels weird not having my tonsils. The procedure was simple and fast; they put me in a very narrow operating table with my head on a donut-shaped pillow, attached some monitors from my head to my ankle and slipped a gas mask on my face. After two deep breaths, I passed out. The next thing I knew, I was already in the recovery room, with other patients, similarly disabled and had undergone an operation, and also in pain. The anaesthesia was about to wear out and the pain is slowly creeping in.

I felt blood in my throat, and I deliberated on swallowing it, or spitting it out. Well, the first option was hard with my throat still numb and sore, so I opted for the second option. I was back in my room after several hours and refused to eat for a day. My throat was still sore and I found it hard to swallow. The day after, I began to eat, starting with ice cream and ending with a chocolate mousse.

Now, this is worth it. Ten days of eating nothing but ice cream, soft cakes, and soup. I delighted on the thought. However, the delight ended when my wife came with a pint of ice cream for me, and a big, juicy hamburger for herself. Suddenly, this didn't turn out right. I realized I cannot eat sinigang, beef steak or pasta for the next 10 days.

Well, eating ice cream is delightful. Eating just it for 10 days is scary. I needed a change in my menu. So here are my choices:

1. Ice cream (plain)
2. Cold soup (cream of mushroom, noodles, but it has to be cold)
3. Soft, cold cakes
4. Really soft lugaw.
5. Vienna sausage (this should be the hardest food that I am allowed to eat)

Any other ideas for food choices anyone?

-Allan

Sunday, March 13, 2005

supernatural



Please take time to read and deeply think about these for these may change the way you live.

Because motion is defined as the proportion of space to time, these concepts are prior to motion, just as the concept of motion itself is prior to force. In other words, the properties of space and time determine the nature of motion and the properties of motion, in turn, determine the nature of force.

The universe consists of time, space, and matter. Several laws of physics prove that the universe is finite in size, and there is an 'end' of it all. Is there an 'edge' at the 'end'? No! At the 'edge' of this universe is the complete non-existence: not void, not vacuum, not space, not nothing; it is the absolute definition of non-existence. We only called it 'vacuum' because this is space that is entirely devoid of matter. There would never be 'space' if 'matter' did not appear. We cannot call it 'nothing' if there was never 'something'. But all of these concepts would never have existed if matter never appeared. There had to be the 'consciousness' that is supernatural to make all these exist. This supernatural is not bound by any of the charts -- vacuum's chart, space's chart, matter's chart -- it has to be more powerful and superior than all the given charts. I'm not even sure if we can grasp this idea.

This supernatural is God, not bound by time, nor space, nor matter, unfathomable, cannot be grasped, all-powerful, and the almighty Creator of the universe!
[send your questions and violent reactions to my email] - Dandy Abesamis
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