Of all the claims made by Fitch, I can only endorse the last one that I listed at the beginning of this article. Easier starting for me was well worth the cost of the product, and certainly proved to me that the fuel catalyst actually did something other than take up space in the gas tank. I recently read Doug Coffey's (HeadQuarters) commentary on this product in his Yahoo User Group and found it very interesting, particularly his take on what one should expect from the fuel catalyst. The following is an excerpt from that posting. "If you have a well tuned performance bike using good fresh gasoline with the octane rating suitable for your current ignition timing.....you will not get one damn bit of a power increase. BUT, if you buy bad gas, or use it as a fuel stabilizer it is damned cheap insurance and will get more work out of the fuel. I have it in everything I own. Where I DO SEE major increases is in my 'industrial' stuff. Things like ATV's, lawn tractors, boat engines and chain saws. My lawn tractor does about 20% more work on a tank full with Fitch than without it. Now, my lawn mower uses regular gas that sits around. I buy about 25 gallons every three months for my off road toys. These kinds of toys are not state of the art performance type things in a high state of tune. I also have it in my hot rod Harleys WHICH are in a high state of tune, but sometimes I have to buy less than perfect gas. When that happens, I know the Fitch is working for me." "Octane is Latin for 8 chains. This means gasoline molecules are connected in chains of 8. Zinc has an effect on gasoline that will somehow chemically maintain the fuel in chains of 8 molecules. (A chemist friend told me that) Unstable fuel breaks down and the molecules 'wander' and attach themselves to other chains. Bad fuel might have chains of 8, 3, 5, 11 etc. The zinc in the Fitch keeps the molecules 'honest' and that makes or restores fuel to a fresh condition. Personally, I think the Fitch people made a mistake suggesting power improvements from their product. With bad gas it would be true and I think that is where they began to believe it made more power. Keep in mind they are not performance guys. Their market success has been based on fleet trucks and police cars, not Winston Cup cars. I think they made what we refer to as an honest mistake. In my opinion, it is still well worth the investment. Unstable fuel does not yield the work that stable fuel does even though it costs the same amount of money per gallon. I know darn well I have saved a lot of money by using Fitch fuel catalyst in my vehicles and motor toys. Try it in something you use all the time for the same job over and over, like a lawn mower (or a Shovelhead). You will learn right away that it really stretches the fuel out."
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