I just saw this on another site, sounds interesting enough to p*** on, has any body heard of anyone using acetone in their fuel? check out the link. http://pesn.com/2005/03/17/6900069_Acetone/
Some guy on onother one of my favorite boards tried it and posted his results. He even referanced the site you posted. See below for the arguments that ensued... http://impal***forum.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=008927#000000
Too corosive. use toluene. Just look at the ingredient list of race fuel. Toully is always a large percentage. http://www.foxvalleykart.com/fuel5.html You can also use it to make Meth
I know two things from first-hand experience: 1 - You can burn acetone 2 - It will **** up your seals, fuel line, & any plastics in your fuel system When I was in high school, I was helping to refurbish an old DC-3 & had loads of cleaning chemicals in the trunk of my Mustang (probably not a good idea, but I was young). One day, I ran out of gas about five miles from the nearest gas station. I had about 3/4 gallon of pure acetone in the trunk & figured - why not? I poured it in & cranked it up. It didn't idle for ****, but ran very well. The engine had good power & accelerated well. After I got to the gas station, I filled up with Amoco 93 & went about my business. The next day, the car wouldn't start. After cranking a bit, I began to smell gas, so popped the hood & fuel was leaking out all over the intake from everywhere on the carb. When I popped the carb open, every single rubber o-ring or seal had expanded to at least twice its original size, the few pieces of plastic were a melted goo, the gaskets had all expanded enough they wouldn't fit back on, & all the rubber fuel hoses had expanded. Thus ended my experimentation with acetone! Now granted, I ran quite a bit more than they're suggesting in those articles, but it would seem to me that someone would have figured this thing out already. I'm no chemist, but it seems to me the surface tension of gasoline isn't a major factor - it seems to seep & penetrate quite well.
Can't say about acetone, in small quan***ies, but it will digest anything made of or containing oil. Plastics are especially vulnerable. I've run on methanol, and Tennessee moonshine. Put the moonshine in a Mack diesel and burned every piece of chrome off the stack. I'm sure it never helped the valves. I've also seen tolouene put in a bike, flash back through the carb and blow the tank. Which is something I didn't think that was possible. So be careful about adds. You might get more than you reckoned on.
I had followed it on another board. One member claimed his company was useng it in their fleet vehicles at 3 oz per 10 gallons and the program highly reccomended not exceeding that amount as it wouldn't produce any better results, as in more isn't better. He had no ill effects to report at the last posting I read. FWIW this is all nasty stuff. Toulene and Xylene are nasty and corrosive, giving off deadly fumes. (Read what F-1 drivers say who have to follow close behind cars that use too much)
In the 50's, grandpa always talked about running nitro in his flattys. He said they didn't know their ****s from a hole in the ground and tried to run straight nitro at first....pulled the head studs out of the block. So, he went to talk to a chemist at the atomic plant they were building at the time and the guy told him to thin it with acetone.....something about skin friction and cutting the gel. He said it worked great- poor man's supercharger he always called it. hhahahaha, not by todays standards, huh? just some stuff he tells me I think is interesting and want to share
so??? who's going to try it first? it sounds reasonable. i just wouldn't want to mess someting up. i've usually got 5+ gallons of it here at work so i'm interested.
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