Well ive tried it, cant say if it helped or not. Havent really "tested" or have any method of testing mpg. Most of this thread is a bunch of bs anyway.
A little bit of Acetone wont do sh1t to the car. Im reading about ppl bitching that itll kill you! Itll eat away the plastic!! Dont do it, its the END!
Whats wrong with you people?!?!
Read up a bit more. Acetone isnt some radioactive substance thats going to mutate your cells.
Copied from someone who seems to know what there talking about from the other site thread,
#1. Acetone will wreck your fuel lines: This is partially true but false in this context. You are directed to use 100% pure acetone, which is a solvent, but one of the weaker solvents out there. Yes, it does dissolve plastics and rubber, but not at the concentration that you'd be adding to your tank. The article mentions adding 1 to 3 ounces of acetone per 10 gallons of gasoline. 10 gallons of gasoline is 1280 ounces, which is less than 1/4 of a percent. The solvent nature at that concentration would be negligible if at all.
#2. Acetone will kill your car: Acetone will NOT kill your car! Remember that Gasoline itself acts as a solvent. The only parts that acetone (concentrated mind you) would damage would be cheap rubber and plastics, neither of which are found in an automotive fuel system. If 100% pure acetone ate all plastics, why would it be shipped and stored in plastic containers? Acetone will not harm metal either. The only issue I can see would be with blow-by... Blow-by is the process in which the combustion blows past the rings. This happens in every engine to some extent, much more in older engines with worn rings. One might think that the Acetone (after quite a bit of time) might break down the oil, but if you change your oil often, this should be a non-issue. Using Synthetic such as Mobil 1 might reduce the risk all together.
3: Remember that acetone is not being added as a "power-add" such as NOS. The purpose of adding the acetone is to increase mileage by increasing the vaporization of the fuel. No fuel or engine completely vaporizes the fuel. The better the vaporization, the more efficient the engine will run. Acetone would increase vaporization because it supposedly reduces the surface tension of the fuel. The theory is such that a fuel having a reduced surface tension will vaporize easier due to reduced cohesion and adhesion. Cohesion is the strong intermolecular force that helps keep like molecules together. In addition, one could theorize that vaporization could be increase by reducing adhesion, which is the attractive force between two unlike molecules, like a molecule of fuel and molecules of the steel, iron or aluminum inside your engine. Simple physics; if you reduce the cohesion and adhesion, you reduce the fuels natural ability to keep itself together or sticking to parts in the engine, which are both counter-productive in the vaporization process.
"10% ethanol in my gas sucks, why should I use acetone"? Ethanol will NOT increase gas mileage! EVER! It takes about 1/3 more ethanol to create the same amount of power than gasoline. Ethanol is used for a few different reasons, one of which is to reduce emissions, another is to subsidize farmers. Ethanol DOES allow you to run MUCH higher compression ratios as it is much less prone to detonation, which is why you see funny cars running it. Running an engine on pure ethanol, you could theoretically increase the compression (run a turbo or supercharger) and get much more power out of a smaller engine. There are also issues with doing this, but that is another subject. Acetone is nothing like ethanol and the person who infers that is a complete moron.
There are many that feel that Propane is one of the most efficient fuels to run a combustion engine. One can assume that this might be true because propane is already almost completely vaporized, which wastes less fuel. If a product added to gasoline increase the vaporization, one could conclude that it might increase mileage.
I'm not saying you should do this, but investigate the facts before saying it's a bad idea, just as you should before actually doing something like this.
posted by seandaly (0)
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