Fitch Fuel Catalyst

blake1827 · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 12:23 am

Has anyone tried this in a CRD or another diesel? F3824 is for our CRD http://www.fitchcatalyst.com/details.php?prodId=8&category=20
It seems like it might be a worthwhile investment instead of buying bottles of PowerService and the hassle of adding it every fillup, except maybe in the Winter for anti-gel?
Where would could I find room to stash it??

BlackLibertyCRD · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 8:52 am

You will be better off running your fuel though a can with a magnet on it. :lol:

truckbouy2 · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 9:00 am

Send ME the money...
I'll send you a thank you invoice.
I'll get a nice warm feeling using the money and you'll get the same result as if you really had a Fitch Fuel Catalyst.... :wink:

blake1827 · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 12:50 pm

Is the consensus this is just another ZMax or Tornado?

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 1:15 pm

blake1827 wrote:

Is the consensus this is just another ZMax or Tornado?

It has been tested by independent labs (testing resources) and according to their “real world testing”, the product does work. Diesel Power magazine did a write up about it a while back, they noted a fuel mpg increase in their test vehicle. This was an upgrade that I was looking at last year. I would have to research it to see how it would work when using biodiesel.

UFO · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 1:17 pm

Blows my mind. If you run gasoline through it, it increases octane. If you run diesel through it, it increases cetane. It's sort of like a thermos -- it keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold. I wonder how it knows the difference?

Quote:

What is the Fitch Fuel Catalyst?

A metal alloy composed by a proprietary process that permanently transforms hydrocarbon fuels to a superior quality fuel than what is purchased from a gas station.

No lack of detail there..... :roll:

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 1:29 pm

UFO wrote:

Blows my mind. If you run gasoline through it, it increases octane. If you run diesel through it, it increases cetane. It's sort of like a thermos -- it keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold. I wonder how it knows the difference?

Quote:

What is the Fitch Fuel Catalyst?

A metal alloy composed by a proprietary process that permanently transforms hydrocarbon fuels to a superior quality fuel than what is purchased from a gas station.

No lack of detail there..... :roll:

.....................................and If REFLEX was here, he would flip a lid on this one…………………I miss his overexagerated comments, although I do not miss his unnecessary arguments. When looking at mpg upgrades, I think most products have some hypothetical mpg improvement, but many of these products show minimal improvements in efficiency that may never be seen, felt, or well documented. On the flipside, the Fitch Fuel Catalyst has been documented to work and mpg increases are noticeable.

dgeist · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 1:34 pm

UFO wrote:

Blows my mind. If you run gasoline through it, it increases octane. If you run diesel through it, it increases cetane. It's sort of like a thermos -- it keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold. I wonder how it knows the difference?

Quote:

What is the Fitch Fuel Catalyst?

A metal alloy composed by a proprietary process that permanently transforms hydrocarbon fuels to a superior quality fuel than what is purchased from a gas station.

No lack of detail there..... :roll:

It's probably lined in copper or something so it has a microbial affect on algae in diesel.... :wink:

Seriously, "permanently transforms" ? If it's transforming anything, then it's a chemical reason... and they say is not a chemical additive. I would believe that some natural metallic properties of certain alloys could help de-muck nasty fuel if passed through them.

Dan

gmctd · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 2:48 pm

Note the color of the skin as it falls from the box - diamond-back rattler skin makes excellent hat-band and key-fob covering - simple grass-snake skin is worthless, tho..............................

scrambledKJ · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 9:14 pm

After diesel power and JP magazines had some nice things to say about the fitch, I looked into it further. it passes the fuel over certain materials to breakup some of the carbon chains. I seems like good chemistry. If blowing exhaust through the honeycomb in a cat can change nitous and cabon monoxide into carbon dioxide and N2, why can't you chemically alter fuel?

Travis

gmctd · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 11:48 pm

And H2sO4........................

dgeist · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 9:48 am

gmctd wrote:

And H2so4........................

Is that part of "..and what Johnny thought was H2O was H2SO4"

UFO · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 11:45 am

scrambledKJ wrote:

After diesel power and JP magazines had some nice things to say about the fitch, I looked into it further. it passes the fuel over certain materials to breakup some of the carbon chains. I seems like good chemistry. If blowing exhaust through the honeycomb in a cat can change nitous and cabon monoxide into carbon dioxide and N2, why can't you chemically alter fuel?

Travis

You can't say that when no chemistry is identified. Not to mention the same can of snake oil "transforms" diesel into some crap with higher cetane and gasoline into something else with higher octane. The two are mutually exclusive.

blake1827 · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 12:16 am

Yeah it seems a bit fishy to me too that it will work for petrol and diesel. +1 MPG isn't enough to convice me it works.

I was hoping for something that was going to solve to fuel additive hassle, but I'll stick with my B20 blends and Powerservice. But once I read the install insructions it scared me away, I'm dreading my next fuel filter change, even though I haven't had any air in fuel issues after bleeding it a half dozen times the first couple days after the CAT conversion on Labor day.

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 10:36 am

scrambledKJ wrote:

After diesel power and JP magazines had some nice things to say about the fitch, I looked into it further. it passes the fuel over certain materials to breakup some of the carbon chains. I seems like good chemistry. If blowing exhaust through the honeycomb in a cat can change nitous and cabon monoxide into carbon dioxide and N2, why can't you chemically alter fuel?

Travis

you can chemically alter fuel - you compress it and ignite it and you break all of those wonderous carbon chains into H2O and CO2 (with some CO and NOx mixed in) - and it makes the pistons go down.

Refineries alter long carbon chains as part of the process - it's called High Cracking - takes a Catalyst and about 400-800C temps - not something you can plug into the fuel line. If they could do it at a lower temp - they would - it'd be worth a few hundred million a year.

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:12 am

I’m bumping this in hopes to catch a new audience. According to a few guys on the Dodge Cummins forum, they all noted a mpg increase. Mostly 1 mpg increase.

UFO · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:04 am

dieselenthusiast wrote:

I’m bumping this in hopes to catch a new audience. According to a few guys on the Dodge Cummins forum, they all noted a mpg increase. Mostly 1 mpg increase.

Placebo anyone?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:20 am

wouldn't it take like 3000 gals of fuel ran through before you saved the 200-300 bucks in the cost of the product? thats like 200 fill-ups?

maybe i did the math wrong?

onthehunt · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:17 am

If they really worked every diesel fleet in america would be running them. An extra mpg. That's some serious $$$. Except I can't find a fleet using these nor do I see them avaliable at truck stops. SNAKE OIL. Imho.

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:14 am

onthehunt wrote:

If they really worked every diesel fleet in america would be running them. An extra mpg. That's some serious $$$. Except I can't find a fleet using these nor do I see them avaliable at truck stops. SNAKE OIL. Imho.

Actually, there are many fleets running the fitch:
http://www.energysavingsbyfitch.com/
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006 ... 08747.html

People who use them say they work:
https://ki.site5.com/~fitchcat/reviews.php

Lots of studies proves that it works
http://www.ecologicx.com/fitch.html
http://www.thegreendirectory.com.au/env ... -Award.pdf

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