CleanMPG Reviews The Condensator

Tom Baleno – CleanMPG – Sept. 21, 2007

I received the Condensator kit for review and installed it into my 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid. Included was a good length of hose, various other smaller bits of hose, some adaptors to connect...

Review is still in progress, Tom's Civic was the first test vehicle, TorqueNada is the second vehicle...we figured that trying it in both a relatively new and in a somewhat older vehicle would be a bit more fair. I'm looking to log a couple of tanks with it.

$179? That's a ripoff. What makes it so much better than a $10 condensator intended for an air compressor? Is it the magic beads?

I agree that the cleaner the engine the less good it will probably do.

I'm keeping my mouth shut until the actual review is posted, and I'm ready to pounce when it does.

Hey, does a review have to be 2000 words. Thanks for reminding me to put up the pictures though.

Update on The Condensator. It has been installed on TorqueNada since 9/23/07, I've put on about 1300 miles or so since then. The device seems to be well made, and installed easily. I received it from Tom with no signs of liquid or sludge in the jar. As of today, I still see no signs of liquid or sludge in the jar. Upon opening the jar, there was a bit of a smell, somewhat expected that there would be. Today I pulled it off temporarily to do a few trips in this weather without the Condensator to see if any difference. Trip home with unit: 38.2 Trip back to work without unit: 38.7 Please note that I usually get a little bit better mpg on the way to work. Traffic conditions were about the same (medium heavy) and weather about the same since trips were about 15 minutes apart.

As an additional note, I checked oil again today, and after 7,000 miles that old blue pig of a Ranger TorqueNada has used only about 1/3 of a quart. I am running AMSOIL synthetic. I do indeed wonder if this device performs only for 'loose' engines, ie those that have some blowby and consume oil at a more frantic rate. Looks like at this point that both Tom's fairly new Honda and my fairly old Ford are too tight to benefit from this device.

It does NOT hurt gas mileage, but it doesn't seem to help it either, so far. I will run a few days without it, then put it back on for a few more days. If the results remain as is, ie no change, then I think I'll give it a shot in the Guzzler. The Guzzler does sip a little oil, about a quart every 2500 miles I believe, so its a bit looser of an engine, and perhaps may benefit from the Condensator. I'll update this again in about 2 weeks.

Oh, man, I forgot to upload the pictures. I have them all nice and resized and stuff on my computer. I'm glad you posted and brought this thread to my attention.

Hello there.

I thought I'd register and post here because I am also testing the Condensator on my 2002 Sub. Forester. It is about 700 miles into the actual test phase with exact same results so far - nothing. The jar is still clean. I am too pessimistic about the Con working on tight engines. Maybe it helps some on high-mileage motors.

My reports in progress are here:

http://www.subaruforester.org/vbulle...?t=4369&page=7

Cheers.

Well, I think I've given it a pretty good chance on my vehicles. End result: clean jar for both TorqueNada and the Guzzler, no noticeable change in fuel economy either way. I guess that even the Guzzler is still too tight to benefit from it, since it didn't leave any gunk in the jar either after about 900 miles. The only other vehicle I could try it on would be a 1990 Dodge that my daughter bought but can't drive yet (hasn't paid the insurance yet... ) I'm guessing it might be a tad looser of an engine. Or, I can check with my landscaper/snowplower neighbor and see if he wants to put it in one of the 'rolling dead'

This is the most over-priced and over-engineered way to accomplish a little bit of PCV/EGR capture that I have ever seen. On YarisWorld a fellow posted a $30 DIY for a catch can: http://yarisworld.com/forums/showpos...85&postcount=1

And I found a way to do it for less than $20: http://yarisworld.com/forums/showpos...0&postcount=18

I capture roughly 3ml of nasty fluid every 1000 miles.


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