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Can The E3 Spark Plugs Improve My Car Mileage?
The E3 Spark Plugs saved me. My wallet at least. My car's mileage has improved ever since i installed the E3 Spark Plugs into my fuel guzzler of a car. Some of you may be skeptical of putting new gizmos into your car but my wallet was bleeding from the fuel consumption and I was willing to try anything.
I drive a big car. A car that I was told would be reliable and fuel efficient. It is a Toyota Camry. After driving it for 3 months, I have not proven the reliability part but I am as sure as I can ever be that my big car is a fuel guzzler. It did not give me 28 MPG (12 km/litre) as advertised, instead i was getting 16 MPG (7km/litre). With a 70 litres fuel capacity for my car, this meant a difference of 350km. That translate to 50 litres at the miserable 7km/litre mileage. At the current sky high fuel costs, that is US$74 more each time I fill up my car. And I visit the petrol kiosk twice a week. It was really draining my wallet. (hope the maths did not turn you off)
Desperate, I took the recommendations of my mechanic and tried out the E3 Spark Plugs. Am I glad that I did.
How Does The E3 Spark Plug Works?
The E3 Spark Plugs claimed to produce a faster flame front and pressure rise so that it is able to burn more of the fuel to power the piston before the fuel is vented off by the exhaust valve. This is achieved by their DiamondFire Technology which is made up of the below 3 components:
- Directing the flame to the spark zone faster by opening the section at the top of the electrode.
- Projecting the flame farther forward into the combustion chamber to get a more efficient burn.
- Forced edge-to-edge spark discharge to improve the spark discharge.
These 3 design changes by E3 helped to produced the E3 advanced DiamondFire Technology spark plugs.
Enough about the technology..back to my personal test of the plugs.
My Experience Testing The E3 Spark Plugs
The day that I installed the E3 Spark Plugs, I immediately felt an instant performance increase. My big fat car started to run smoother, a quieter idle and the throttle response become quicker on the foot. Yah, no more delay in response!
I have gone through about 1 month of trying out the e3 spark plugs. With about 5 tank change, my mileage is reflected as 25 MPG (11km/litre). This is a huge savings for me! I am saving about US$50+ dollars per top up. This is a life saver for me.
I know some of you may have also tried the e3 spark plugs but did not get the same results that i did. My take is that for cars which are already operating at the manufacturer's specifications, the fuel savings will probably not be noticeable. However for cars like mine, which are sub-optimal, the performance boost can be pretty obvious.
Further Testing Needed For The E3 Spark Plugs
I will also be installing the E3 Spark Plugs into my wife's car. She is driving a Ford Focus and I have not really hear her complain much about her mileage. But I am curious about how the E3 Spark Plugs will work on a American car. I will update when I get some results about the e3 spark plugs again.
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The spark plugs were not expensive..only 10 bucks a piece, but i got the mechanic to install them and the labor costs me another $50.
Great savings indeed! Thanks for sharing your experience with us, jared
Never heard of these. I'll look for them. Thanks.
these plugs are pure hipe.
after you get tired of your engine light being on, put some factory plugs back & enjoy a smooth running motor again.
i forgot to mention, if your only getting 16 MPG city from a Toyota Camry, you have something bad wrong with it.my 83 Monte Carlo gets 18~20 city, almost 30 hiway with the A/C running, & it has a 5.7 V-8.
too funny, while there are people who have not gotten any improvements from trying out the E3 Spark Plugs, I am pretty happy with the performance so far. Most of my driving are on city roads,with frequent start stops..that may be the reasons for the low mpg.
Thats a nice tip thanks ill have to try them because as we all know gas isnt getting any cheaper
This looks like a cool plug, I may have to go out and get some for my next tune up. You might like my hub on how to save gas as well. I talk about changing your spark plugs to save you MPG. Thumbs up here.
That's either honest mistake or another snake oil.
I have no need to sell snake oil.... :)
It is just my personal experience
You cannot have such an experience. First, Camries don't have the mileage you claimed to have initially - unless something is going really wrong. Second, countless experiments with spark plug design under controlled environment showed only marginal improvement over standard design for some engines, if anything at all.
The only remote possibility of having such an improvement is having your original plugs in such a bad condition that they misfired every other time. In this case installing new REGULAR spark plugs will give the same effect.
You are either misled yourself, or trying to mislead others, or both.
Misha, you do not need to be so offensive in trying to accuse me of misleading others. If it was true, would i even bother approving your comments?
i know that you are an expert in this field but if you are so closed minded about new technology, where will all the innovations in the world come from? There is no need to insist that "i cannot have such an experience" :)
Anyway, i have expressed clearly that this is my personal experience and i am not trying to sell anything on this hub page.
Hi Jared, thanks for sharing your experience with us. I installed Halo spark plugs in my car and have also experienced better gas mileage and improved engine performance. I think that these newer designs reduce the quenching effect and improve combustion. I'm glad that the e3s are working well for you.
I have been using Halo Spark plugs on my Honda Civic. Halo spark plugs are somewhat similar with E3 sparkplugs except that the halo sparkplugs have a round tip and E3's have a diamond configuration. both allow for an unobstructed combustion that (from what I've read about the halo sparkplugs) create the "quenching effect" that does not allow a clean burn.
anyway, I am very happy with the Halo sparkplugs (this type of sparkplug configuration were used in aircraft engines as well) and I have been getting 40 to 43 mpgs on my Honda Civic.
I did however did not have a good experience with the halo plugs on my wife's toyota sienna. it started misfiring and turned on the check engine light when I installed it. why it affected the engine that way, I don't know.
overall, I think that the principle behind such type of sparkplugs is effective in some applications.
hi Halo_user, i have also tried to install on my wife's ford focus and the results were not that great. There were no misfiring but we did not see significant fuel savings that we have seen on my car.
I would also recommend the Bosch Platinum tipped plugs and NGK has the NEW Titanium plugs that I put in my snowmobile and they run awesome! Just remember that tuneups will always help, but it is hard to believe that much of an increase for just adding spiffy plugs!
Tom
hi superiorhealth, thanks for the suggestion. I was more surprised that my camry only gave me 7km/litre and was searching for a solution when i found the e3 spark plugs. Til date, my efficiency is still doing pretty well. So I am happy with the spark plugs.
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I have installed an E3 plug in my Golden Eagle bike engine (a Tanaka 32 CC 2 stroke) and it helped with power but not much with economy. I was getting about 180 MPG with the stock plug and it went down to about 170 MPG with the E3. I have noticed a higher top speed with the E3 and the engine does run smoother. So for small engines these plugs are worth it.
I have also installed E3's in my 91 Honda Civic CRX HF. The mileage increased about 2 MPG to 52 MPG average. I have also noticed an increase in power and less downshifting needed.
I would recommend that you try them. They have a money back garantee.
Thanks for the great information. However, I can't wait for your review on your wife's Ford Focus because I am driving a Ford Focus as well.
Cheers
I have installed Halo Plugs on my 85 S-10 Blazer witha 2.8L V-6. The engine sucks the old spark plugs were clean (right temp gap etc) and I have not noticed a change in fuel use but I have noticed that the timing is now off by a couple of degrees.
The plus side is that the engine runs smoother with more zip (power).
Down side is that Halo plugs about 8 bucks each and I fear running them in a motorcycle do to the fact my bike runs at or over 6K RPM and the plug manufacturer warns that the plug will not cool off fast enough to not cause problems at 6K RPM.
For a Motorcycle I would recommend denso iridium plugs @ about 12-13 bucks each. I had great results with those on 2 air-cooled engines a 68 bug and a yamaha 750 triple
E-3 Plugs are about 6 bucks each.
I improved my MPG by 58% using Hydrogen Technology!
This is an incredibly useful resource. I agree with your line of thought and E3 Spark plugs can surely improve Car mileage.
I got my e3 spark plugs from JCwhitney for 6$ a piece and put em in myself as i do most my automotive work myself. I drive 92 Jeep cherokee 4 door with a 4.0 inline 6 engine. Its a complete gas guzzler. The expected gas milage is around 15 or so highway. my engine always ran kinda rough even putting in new spark plugs and everything. I saw the e3 plugs and figured id try em. I put them in and just like you siad my engine all the sudden was runnign smoother and idling better and everything. As for gas milage, i am getting what I use to get in the highway driving around town. 40$ for a cleaner, smoother running engine? well worth it
I think for these plugs to make a significant differance in mpg/performance depends on your engine design. Both E3 and halo plugs direct the flame pattern to the center of the combustion chamber through the hole in the center of the plug. This is great for OHC(over head cam) engines where the plug is pointing directly straight down toward the piston. In a standard push rod type engine, the plug is on an angle in the combustion chamber, this directs the flame pattern to the cylinder wall instead of the piston weakening the plugs effect.
I have always had great results with e3 spark plugs. If you can read about their spark plug technology at http://www.e3sparkplugs.com. Its pretty informative. Plus you should check out the truck crashes in their video center.
To understand how spark plugs work one must understand how electricity works. On a standard plug you have a single point of contact with a set amperage due to the coil that is installed. The gap determins the amperage that is translated to the cylinder due to the length of the path. Spark travels the path of least resistance (and is affected by the amount of carbon on the plug). If you were to watch a spark plug fireing you would see the spark dance around the tip as each fire subtly changes the surface of that tip causing different resistance paths even when no combustible is present. Add a combustable and the dynamic changes dramatically. For example standard fuel with no oxygenating additive has a naturally high resistance. Adding air to this and nebulizing or atomizing the mix decreases the resistance. Adding the "Oxygenator" oddly has the opposit effect and again increases the resistance. The higher the resistance the stronger the spark (amperage) must be to get a clean burn. A spark plug can get signifigantly fouled very early in its life by having something as simple as condensation in the fuel line. They are usually cleaned by the explosive effect of the fireing itself, but this is not always the case. Also misfire can occure several times a minute even on a good running engine. There are multiple ways to increase spark strength including reducing gap, stonger coil and better wires, but there is always a downside to these solutions that most of you probably already understand. There is an erroneous belief that these types of plugs fire multiple sparks simultaniously which if that were the case would split the amperage by the number of sparks present. There is always only one spark but multiple points of contact. The concept that these plugs work on is that by increasing contact area you also reduce the number of misfires due to resistance. In other words, more contact area, more path choices in case one is fouled. This sounds very good but all of this is also effected by certain proprietory elements in the different engine designs. Things such as bore and stroke, and placement of the spark plug itself. These different elements are the reason that gap is so important. Fixed gap plugs seem to try to set a mean that encompasses all if these issues and hope that the higher efficiency spark takes care care of the rest, as far as I can tell, and this, I think, causes the large variations in performance. please forgive any typos as I don't have the time to spell check right now.
wow this is really useful information...thanx for sharing it...i am gonna get it...it gives good milage and less pollution....2 in 1...great hub Jared L.thanx for sharing...
Thats cool. I've done a lot of research on eliminating throttle response, and this seems to help.
Firestorm spark plug concept looks promising. Too bad we have the powers that be take us all for what we are worth. We're just a bottom line to them. Smokey had a great idea which was shut down until recently after he passed. Apparently, someone else "thought" of it and are selling it for huge profits. Anyone seen the new movie "The day the Earth stood still"? Just the opposite of the "Matrix" trilogy.
Mark Bennett says:
15 months ago
That's some serious savings! How much did you pay for the spark plugs?