anyone got some used units, work good on my vintage cars, looking for some more, prefer the larger ones
sr2,
Dec 11, 7:36pm
Fuelstar was a fantastic highly underrated product, shot down by the greedy global energy corporates for obvious reasons.
esky-tastic,
Dec 11, 7:41pm
Never had any success with them, not worth the cost.
sr2,
Dec 11, 8:15pm
But,. but,. they were blessed by Brocky?
franc123,
Dec 11, 8:19pm
I don't think it was Brock, Jack Brabham was endorsing them in the early days. You must be thinking of the HDT Polariser.
craigs_workshop,
Dec 11, 8:24pm
the one i used worked
sr2,
Dec 11, 8:26pm
They were both touted as being a "fuel combustion catalyst".
Rumor had it that if you fitted enough of them to your car the petrol gauge would actually go up as you drove.
tintop,
Dec 11, 8:31pm
There are no conclusive tests to show it worked, plenty of anecdotes - some expressing honest 'opinion', some stated by Ian Cornelius in his advertising blurb, even to the point of stating that it enabled Spitfires to run on Russion pump petrol during WW2, but no scientific verifiable tests to show that it actually worked. And one test ( at least) that showed that it did not. ( accompanied by a load of reasons from Cornelius and Sprott why it was not a 'fair test) .
sr2,
Dec 11, 8:44pm
We all know the "scientific verifiable tests" were funded by the oil companies?
tintop,
Dec 11, 8:53pm
Oh - There would have to be a conspiracy theory there somewhere!
The engine that runs on water and Browns gas too ? All killed by the oil companies?
How come a BMW i3 is the 'car of the year' as chosen by the AA ( Oh, one of the failed Fuelstar tests was run by the AA too )
franc123,
Dec 11, 8:56pm
And they had a fair point, the testing done on behalf of the AA was farcical. They were determined to discredit it no matter what and ensure Valvemaster was bought instead, much of it from BP outlets. I wonder why that would have been.
tintop,
Dec 11, 9:00pm
The terms of the test were agreed to by both Cornelius and the AA. When the tests showed that Fuelstar was useless in those tests is when the Fuelstar back peddling began.
bumfacingdown,
Dec 11, 10:06pm
The fishing was good tonight
franc123,
Dec 11, 10:16pm
Not that I remember, the AA test didn't even involve installation in the specified manner nor running the test engine in a way which was representative of real world conditions, it was rigged to fail. AA were never ever going to say otherwise, there was to be no further bad publicity or public scrutiny of 96 (as it was then) ULP and its fitness for purpose, nor any doubt about the product sold as a lead substitute, and no endorsement of a product that may have highlighted its shortcomings whether it did or not. Both the oil co's and the Govt wanted it stopped in its tracks. It was buy it and be happy with it.
pauldw,
Dec 12, 2:49am
There was an old guy selling them at one of the fairs in Levin (A&P show maybe) a few years ago. He may still be on the circuit. They all looked like returns, packaging tatty etc. He was talking the usual rubbish but not getting much interest.
He He ! best fishing ive done for along time. they work for me, on my vintage vehicles, just don't want to pay new price, thought some of the detractors would have some they had removed! will try the swap meets!
elect70,
Dec 12, 12:33pm
NZ Classic Car ran a long term test on a car & couldnt find any discernable difference . Think it was on a valiant .
mm12345,
Dec 12, 12:56pm
Well they should have bloody well known that the orientation of the slant six block interferes with gravity wave fields and confuses the quarks, which are used to being up or down mainly. If they'd shielded the fuelstar with the right crystal (the pink ones from the weekend market are good), put a 300C homeopathic dilution of peyote juice in the radiator, or simply wrapped the fuelstar in one of those phone cases that only let good radiation in and out but stop the bad radiation from frying your brain, well, then they might have got a different result.
bumfacingdown,
Dec 12, 3:36pm
Gosh, you have given this some quite considerable and deep thought
marte,
Dec 12, 5:44pm
I found a spray can of 'Redcoat' at a second hand shop. Its made by 'Holts', a good brand from memory.
But I cannot find it anywhere else. Its supposed to coat the head area and sparkplug with a 'reddish' compound and has some sort of 'Catalytic action". And has a 10% improvement in fuel economy.
Actually I just found the advertising blurb that came with the spray. Its got a mailing address of. P.O. Box 11049 Auckland 5 NewZealand PH (09)591144
rovercitroen,
Dec 12, 5:47pm
I used to run Fuelstar on my V8 Rovers. It did reduce pinking on unleaded fuel. Seemed to have a noticeable benefit on the older cars. They were very expensive to buy new. The odd one comes up on TM. I bought one 2nd hand off Rodney Jaguar spares for a few $. Maybe wreckers may have them?
pfemstn,
Jun 24, 11:11am
thanks RC Rodney- Jag could be a good bet! not many Rover wrecks down here!
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