Hi to all brothers!
After reading so many threads on this K2N - I finally went and tried it out.
Reached there ... the owner I guess - Mr John claimed he got those magic stones from his godfather in Russia!
Then he started showing me range of stuff he got ... from the smallest to the biggest and drawing up a nice skyline on how benefitially it was. Being skeptical, I asked to put the latest he got - which is the medium size cost about RM3500. So the mechanic there took out the fuel host, installed the K2N in between the in and out of the fuel line.
Then John started my car ... few hard flooring on the pedal, show me due to complete combustion there are water actually coming out from the exhaust and there is no exhaust smell. Which I find it quite convincing as I do not try that before (smelling the exhaust). (True ???)
Then I took a ride with it. My usual driving style, not much of different. The only different I notice when I was doing around 120 at 4k RPM, the needle stayed for a while longer than usual. John claimed this is the beauty of the product that help the car to maintain at top speed! (True???)
Came back to center - told him not much different. Then he suggested to drive my car and showed me how it work. So we went for a ride. I was rather shocked with the way he drove. Kinda like a racer - accelerate from 1, 2, D and I think was almost flooring most of the time as I hear the engine was roaring. No doubt it was quite powerful (my car is a 1.8 auto) the way he drove - speeding on Kerinchi Link, cornering at high speed using 2nd gear ... those impressive stuff which I never drove my car like for the past 4 yrs.
After the ride, he offered to let me try for another 1 week. My personal finding :-
1. Fuel consumption - no much different by my normal driving style. But then with that thing under your hood, I have the tendency to speed. Thus not really fuel econ. That's in city driving.
2. On outstation - NS HW, noticed slightly better consumption. From my normal 11km/l to 13km/l. If you asked me - not justifiable for this sort of saving.
3. You know there is a stretch of up hill drive from Taiping to Ipoh (Jelapang) going thru the famous tunnel. I was happily speeding at 120 (thinking that K2N does give the uummpp to climb) until I was beam by a Waja driven by a uncle overtook me !!! Quickly looking for place to hide my face !
Came back KL, told John not satisfy with the product. He insisted me to try another week. After 3 days I drop by the center and had that thing removed!
All in all, not worth the money spent just getting that little power gain. I did admit that I can "feel" the extra power when I accelerate but .... not satisfactory!
If I want to have a no smell exhaust, I might as well invest on a better exhaust system. After all - one car giving out water drop from exhaust doesn't make any different to the environment (dun flame me, ok!)
That's my story with K2N.