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Why it Pays to use the Right Fuel Treatment
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
The news is full of stories about the high price of gasoline and how it is crimping the budget of the consumer. One recent market report shows a surprising, even counterintuitive, trend in the automotive aftermarket. On one hand, we see rising fuel prices and an overall flat aftermarket in retail sales due to the major oil companies bad mouthing such products. But within the segment, sales of the highest performance category of gasoline additives, Complete Fuel System Cleaners, increased some 19% for the twelve months ending in 2008.
Low End Injector Cleaners Don’t do the Job
This growth strongly suggests that consumers are responding to premium products–top of the line differentiated brands– where they receive greater value such as ProTecta’s Complete Fuel System Treatment with a mileage improver as a bonus. Complete fuel system cleaners provide one-tank cleanup of intake valves, fuel injectors and combustion chambers. In a single application, ProTecta’s concentrated cleaner and mileage improver, can restore lost fuel economy, power and emissions performance. Consumers’ desire to achieve measurable fuel economy improvements is the key driver behind this significant shift in behavior. This makes sense as who wants to have to buy 5-10 gas treatments to achieve the same results. The consumer cannot even see the difference of the low end gas treatments and injector cleaners that cost between $1-$5.99 at the date this is written. This is also a reason people are skeptical of aftermarket additives. Its simple with the low end products they say what have I got to lose, but when they try them they do not see the results.
ProTecta Complete Fuel System Treatment with a friction modifier for fuel economy benefits even on a new car is SFR’s top-of-the-line additive package that allws SFR’s distributors and retail outlets to offer a differentiated complete fuel system product. It provides a variety of proven benefits and specifically addresses consumers’ desire to improve fuel economy. Though there are some complete fuel system treatments, only SFR’s ProTecta Complete Fuel Sytem Treatment contains the special friction modifier to improve fuel economy. Thus, the consumer receives a benefit in mileage from the cleaning of injectors and combustion chambers and another benefit with its mileage improver, which works even on new cars.
Tests of ProTecta Complete Fuel System Cleaner with Mileage Improver in consumer vehicles evaluated intake valve deposits, combustion chamber deposits, fuel injection flow rates, emissions, fuel economy, drivability, catalystic converters and oxygen sensors. The test results demonstrate that in one tank, ProTecta’s Complete Fuel System Cleaner with Mileage Improver completely cleans injectors, intake valves, combusion chambers, piston tops and cylinder heads. This leads to:
Improved fuel economy. On average by 3-4%, but up to 6%
Restored power. Removing deposits increases an engines power.
Reduced emissions. A clean engine burns fuel more efficiently and reduces the amount of harmful gases released through the tailpipe.
Improved fuel economy on new vehicles. ProTecta’s special friction modifier that gravitates through the fuel and becomes resident on the piston tops or heads in the motor oil, lasts an entire oil change giving the consumer a mileage improvement even on a new car.
Overall, it means reductions in the cost of operating the vehicle and improvements in engine performance.
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Diesel Cars are the Up and Coming Trend in the U.S.
Monday, June 15th, 2009
As fuel prices begin to skyrocket again, future plans for the purchase of an automobile should not rule out considering a diesel car. In the past, the purchase of a diesel car has been shunned in the U.S. This is due to the noise and filling up at the messy diesel pumps. But all that is about to change.
70% of All New Cars are Diesels
In Europe almost 70% of all new car registrations are diesels! Because of the high price of fuel and the new high-pressure quiet diesels Europeans are buying in record numbers.
You achieve high-pressure diesel injection when you inject diesel fuel under a very high pressure in the cylinders of an internal combustion engine.
High-pressure injection yields smaller drops of fuel, which have relatively more surface exposed to the air surrounding them. Thus, the oxidation (the burning process) of the diesel is performed faster and better. This means that you get more energy out of your fuel, and exhaust particles are smaller.
The overall result are engines that generally run better, and yield more torque and power. As a bonus, they are far more efficient, lowering fuel use and thus improving mileage. That is, because the fuel is burnt more thoroughly, you get more energy out of it.
New Diesel Cars are as Quiet as Gasoline Cars
Normally diesel engines like this would produce way too much noise to be usable in passenger cars. But the injection system has a clever way to deal with it. In gasoline engines, the ignition of the fuel is done by an electrically generated spark. Not so in diesel engines, where the burning process starts automatically due to high temperature and pressure in the cylinder. The motor management decides exactly when the fuel enters the cylinder. And by gradually injecting fuel (not everything at once), the burning process can be extended over a slightly longer period. This process reduces noise that the combustion produces, and lowers the exerted force on the components of the engine, thereby improving durability.
Much Better Mileage than Gasoline Cars
With smaller fuel nozzles and diesel cars getting over 50 miles per gallon one can see why this is so popular. It’s only a matter of time before the U.S. market begins to explode in this area.
SFR manufactures D-Sol Diesel Fuel Conditioners to keep injectors clean, fuel from gelling in the winter-time and improving mileage. Lubricity additives are critical says Caterpillar and Cummins due to the new low sulfur fuel. Low sulfur diesel fuel is actually very similar to jet fuel.
If you are thinking about a car consider a diesel as they are coming to a dealer new you soon with projections of an increase in sales of 15-20% each year.
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Oil Additives Work, Here is Why
Friday, April 17th, 2009
In response to a document put on the web regarding why oil additives are bad and can cause damage to your car, it’s actually the opposite as oil additives are the lifeblood of all motor oil. Additives thus play an extremely important role in reducing wear in an engine and so if you want to extend the life of your vehicle you need to consider the use of additives.
API’s GF-5 Increases Friction Modifiers (an additive)
Initially the document refers to friction modifiers and states “Don’t use them in your engine!” In researching this claim, I found that the opposite is true, so much so, that the new GF-5 warranty specification for motor oil calls for the increase in use of friction modifiers. In an article appearing in “Lubes n’ Greases” about the new GF-5 motor oil warranty specification, Alex Boffa, global Passenger Car Motor Oil (PCMO) coordinator at Chevron states “Maybe it will mean an overall increase in the overall additive package, and particularly in the dispersant/detergent additives. He want on to say “We may see increased levels of friction modifiers , too.” (more…)
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1989 Ford Dually loses oil pump, SFR saves engine
Monday, July 9th, 2007
This blog entry concerns a 1989 Ford Dually, 460 Cubic Inch gasoline engine that was pulling a 26′ car trailer
Being an avid user of SFR oil additive to a number of years; One early morning, (2:00 am), while driving back from Columbus, Ohio, show, I stopped for gas in Osseo, Wisconsin. After getting back on I-94 my oil pressure dropped to 0 and my oil light came on. I need to mention that it was about 10 degrees outside. I stopped and rechecked my oil, everything was ok in that there was no engine noise. I decided to finish my 55 mile trip home running at the speed limit of 65 mph.
Later that morning I went out and put on another mechanical gauge to check the oil pressure. At 1500 rpm I only could get 2 psi. I pulled the pan and checked the bearings, and they were good as new, thus I went to town and bought an oil pump.
I ended up driving it another year before a friend talked me out it. It had 215,000 miles and that was 7 years ago. He still has it, also uses SFR, and yes still the same motor with over 600,000 miles on the odometer.
Wayne Kaiser
Kaiser Custom
Bloomer, Wisconsin
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