I'm the guy driving Merc 190E. Did COD together with IEIE at Taman Mayang during the rain last week Sunday.
I'm reporting after using for 1 week.
1. Upon installation, idling straightaway become very stable. Before installation can feel engine vibration even from inside cabin.
This is because I haven't change my engine mounting when it broke since 2 years ago.
I can now delay changing engine mounting even further.
2. Throttle respond improved a lot. No need to press accelerator pedal much.
3. No need to downshift so much. I'm driving a manual transmission by the way. Everyday, driving home from work, I will have to pass this steep incline which needed me to downshift to 2nd gear or if I force to climb using 3rd gear, the engine will pink (knock like crazy). I'm on RON 95 by the way and my distributor ignition timing is set to a little bit advanced so that I would not loose pick-up. With this setting, I need to be careful with my throttle input and the gear I choose if not engine knocking will occur.
But after installing Firestorm, I no longer need to downshift to 2nd gear on the same steep incline. I can now use 3rd gear happily without the engine giving knocking or pinking sound.....
4. Now for the best part. FC has improved quite a bit. Before, I'm getting a constant 8.5km/l. I'm a sensible driver and my driving is very consistent and my route is the same with the same kind of traffic. Therefore I always get between 8.3km/l to 8.6km/l town driving.
After installing Firestorm...guess what? My FC is now averaging at 9.6km/l. Same route. same driving style albeit slightly heavy on the throttle due to better engine torque and throttle respond (can't resist that). That's more than 10% in fuel saving.
Overall this is a great product. After installing, from the power gain I get, I did expect to get a bit of FC reduction , but my expectation was not more than 5% but end up with more than 10% is a huge improvement and I consider it a bonus that will pay itself in my case in 8 months time due to the saving in FC it gave me..
Thanks Peter for introducing this wonderful product....I am very a very satisfied consumer.
Money well spent I must say.......
Nov 26 2011, 06:56 PM
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