Paul Martin fitted the device to his Alfa V6 in February 2002 and here are his comments:

 "The Ecotek seems to be doing its job the car is more responsive in the lower rev range, I just came home from Wales, were I did some driving around Snowdonia and Blaneu Festiniogue, I did less gear changes than I expected and the car pulled easily in 6th gear on hills were I would have expected to change down to 5th or possibly 4th.
As for consumption figures I will give these at a later date as I have just done a lot of fast dual carriageway and fast Welsh back roads, this is not my usual driving haunt so it's not a true representation of my usual driving style, saying that I did 225 miles to half a tank so its looking good."

You can contact Paul here: paulpcgp@aol.com Thanks Paul - glad you like it!

The Editor of CruiseQuest - 'Spang' got in touch a couple of months ago and said he wanted to test our device for review on his site. He has an Audi V6 and at that time we had no feedback from Audi V6 owners and were slightly concerned that it may not be that effective on such a sophisticated car. If he was going to do a test and publish on his site we wanted something safe - that we knew would work well - but no, he was insistent, he wanted to test it on his personal car and if it was no good then tough. Well we certainly didn't want to wimp out, so we told him to go ahead and the rest is history - you can read the full review on their site by clicking on the CruiuseQuest logo above and going to 'Product Tests'.

Here are some extracts: The car is an Audi A4 2.6L V6 and Spang said on his site:

"Is it a Con? You may very well think so and we at CruiseQuest thought just that when we saw the Ecotek ads in all of the performance magazines. So we decided to take Ecotek to task, get hold of their device, run our own tests and then tell everybody what WE thought! Guess what!  The bloody thing works!!!!"

A few days before any fitting, the Audi was taken for an emissions test and the results will be shown later for comparison purposes.  When it came to fitting the CB26P and because the Audi engine is large, two devices were required."

Here is the engine bay before installation - as you can see the shrouding round the manifold needs to be removed and the two units (engine 2.6) fitted to the servo line. These were fitted together prior to being placed into the vehicle. A short length of hose and two 'Jubilee' style clips were used and the complete assembly was then transferred to the engine bay. Setting up consisted of getting the engine up to normal temperature and adjusting each CB26P at idle speed as per the instruction sheet provided by Ecotek.

The Audi was then taken for a second emissions test and during the journey it was immediately apparent that the engine felt different. It is hard to explain, but the engine felt more relaxed and yet more responsive and we were starting to like the Ecotek device.

The emission figures also showed a big improvement. Both tests were conducted at Ricky Road MOT Centre in Watford. (VIEA No. 6518A2). Copies of the original test documents can be viewed on the CruiseQest site abut they showed a 100% reduction in CO, a 38% reduction in Hydrocarbons and an improved Lambda from 1.006 to 1.002

Then petrol consumption was tested - they checked this by measuring the amount of fuel put into the car versus mileage covered, comparing the consumption figures both before and after fitting the Ecotek device on a full tank to full tank basis.  

NOTE: Figures in Table to the nearest 0.5 mpg.

Now we don’t just think, WE KNOW, that the Ecotek CB26P is the dogs!"

Thanks for that Spang! To see the full report click on the following web link and go to "PRODUCT TESTS": www.cruisequest.co.uk

Paul Shillito very kindly sent us alternative fitting instructions for his Renault 19 16v Phase 2 - here is what he said:

"For the last few months all the mags have been raving on about the wonders of this widget. 

So on Friday I took delivery of the unit. Having read over on the Ecotek site a couple of Renault Clio & 19 16V owners had fitted them after a major struggle by cutting the main metal pipe feeds.

But there is another way....!

1) Trim 3mm off each end of the Ecotek (take it that me warranty has gone..?)
2) Remove the 50mm hose which connects the brake servo to the inlet manifold.
3) Cut hose in half.
4) Attach to each end of device & secure with hose clips.
5) On one end trim off approx 5mm.
6) Reinsert pipe/ecotek.

That's it - no pipe cutting required. See the picture above.

So what are my findings? Well having played around with various settings I have found that it appears to work really well. Before I expected usually 28.8mpg having fitted the unit that's now up to 35.4mpg...not bad :-)

Cruising at 50mph resetting the comp I recorded 48.3 before having done this I would religiously get 42.0mpg. Throttle response is excellent with no flat spots at all. Congrats on an excellent product." 

Paul Shillitoe - May 2001

Thanks Paul - and BTW if any Renault 19 owners try this we will still honour all the warranties in FULL!