Dear Jerome,
I find your comments here quite useful and would admit that the best plan is to keep up with the manufacturers recommendations to preserve the over longevity and condition of your car or truck.
I started out in the auto mechanical field in 1966 and competed in the Chrysler Plymouth National Trouble Shooting Contest in 1968 with my partner Stan Hoenie. We missed first place by 23 seconds. We both went on from there into the US Marine Corps as the fighting raged on in Vietnam. Stan gave his life saving his fellow soldiers in 1969. I was luckier as I was stationed at Cherry Point, NC and was an Airborne Navigator on C-130 transport planes.
After my service I worked as a line mechanic at Brown & Holter Chevrolet. Personally my first cars were a 63 Corvette, 67 GTO, 1970 Cougar 351 Cleveland and 1992 Renault Fuego, which did indeed have the Bosch Jet L system. All of the cars before the Renault I personally built the engines to the max. Porting & Polishing, Multiple Carburetors, Shit Kits and Torque converters and etc. Did I say 150 Mph Plus?
In 1973 I and my wife joined the US Peace Corps and were stationed in Kinshasa, Zaire, Africa. My wife taught English to black Africans at the Salvation Army High School and Air Zaire.
I worked as the chief of their Civil Aviation Administrations' Mechanical Division. We were responsible for the provision of daily transport of their 2400 employees spread at 47 airports in what is now called the Congo. Congo is after all deepest darkest Africa on the Equator and about half the size of the USA. In addition we maintained all cars, trucks, buses, prime power and standby power at all of the airports. Congo got it's independence in 1963 during a rebellion in which the locals raped, robbed and pillaged their colonial masters. Did I include slice their throats or hacked them to death with machetes?
In the years after independence the citizens virtually killed most all game for food, let their infrastructure vanish and basically only a few Europeans and missionaries kept the country going. The general problem can be recognized by a plaque found under the hood of every Land Rover, "Negative Earth".
Don't get me wrong as the most memorable and rewarding time of my life was during my 2 years in Congo, My daughter was born there for one but even more important was that I set up training programs for all the divisions mechanics, purchased a whole fleet of new cars, buses and generators. I also was able to get them all new tools. Their most common tools were the hammer & chisel.
After my return to the states I worked for the FAA, Federal Aviation Admin, Caterpillar and etc. My experience includes gas, diesel and gas turbine driven generators in supplying prime and standby power to critical radio, microwave, radar and approach lighting systems that allow a 747 to land in fog thick enough that the mins are 100 feet forward visibility with 100 altitude minimum for a decision height as to whether to land at 125 knots with 400+ people onboard.
With all that having been said I would take you to task for your statements about fuel additives. It would generally be true that as in my case having custom built for racing with or without exotic fuel or add the use of nitrous oxide for example I would not expect to find much advantage.
On the other hand I can say that my 2003 Astrovan does routinely have increased power and about a 20% increase in mileage per gallon of fuel. In addition I use an oil additive that neutralizes the oil in my engines crankcase eliminating the acids that are formed by the unburned fuel that makes it past the rings. I used to change oil every 3000 miles but have moved that to a 5000 mile regimen as the result of finding that at 3000 miles the oil is still looking like new.
This exceeds all auto manufactures recommendations.
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Humbly, Rick Martin
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