Ferox fuel additive...save gas or lose cash?

[Leonard Washington]

I've been seeing flyers for these things at my job. I assume they are crap but I was wondering if someone could elucidate the science behind this (if any at all).

Ferox is a fuel additive. It was developed by Wesley Parish in 1985 from work done on experimental burn rate modifiers for solid rocket propellant systems used in the aerospace industry. Ferox was originally designed to lengthen the life of engines. Until recently, it has been used predominantly in the marine, mining, and trucking industries. It is now used as a fuel additive in common automobile engines using gasoline, diesel, and others. The newest form is in a small tablet that is added with fuel into the tank to be dissolved.

There is evidence that ferox can lower polluting emissions, improve gas mileage, and reduce deposit build-up. There are also claims of prolonging engine life. However, the extent of these benefits for average fuel consumers is still not clear.

The product has been registered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Ferox works as a catalyst, which lowers the activation energy of the rate determining step to break down build-up within the engine. This allows the carbon deposits to burn off at much lower temperatures.

LINKS:

http://www.addferox.com/

http://www.qigasmileage.com/feroxgaspills.htm

http://greatmileage.net/

[Barney B]

OK, so after reading the somewhat opaque literature,

Ferox works as a catalyst, which lowers the activation energy of the rate determining step to break down build-up within the engine. This allows the carbon deposits to burn off at much lower temperatures. [/Quote]

it sounds just like any other octane booster (with some mild solvents added to help clean your combustion chambers). If you check out this PDF, https://www.feroxfueltabs.net/pdf/technical_catalyst.pdf you'll notice that all they're really promising to do is to restore your gas mileage to the levels you got when the car was new, which is consistent with the current state of the art for products such as this. Since many such products already exist, they're hoping to create a market niche by offering it in pill form and using 'unconventional' marketing methods.

If you've got a dirty engine, you might as well use a less-expensive product that's already highly-regarded in the auto repair industry. Hey, here comes a link to one now!

http://www.autobahnpower.com/products.asp?recnumber=92

[Leonard Washington]

thanks man!

[More Complete]

BG 44k is good stuff.

I never believe in "mechanic in a bottle" type stuff but 44k really works.