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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.
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Mark Bennett says:
3 months ago
That's some serious savings! How much did you pay for the spark plugs?