Acetone In Your Fuel Tank Anyone?

[nOOSE]

http://www.lubedev.com/smartgas/faq.htm

wanna try it but i'm not too sure it will not cause any ill effects?

what do u reckon?

nOOSE

[Bov]

Some of the race guys in our club use acetone to boost octane rating in their turbo cars. Seems to work fine. Never seen an engine suffer because of it. Its a lot cheaper than manufactured octane booster And be buggered if I can catch them!

But there is a risk in everything eh?

Cheers

Bov

[meep]

yea i have been looking at acetone for a while too, i think they are right and it would be safe, becuse its only like 90mls to every 40lts, i mean there is more shit in fuel than that.... after reading that web site i think i might try it... f**k it its only an RB20 haha cheap!

Edited October 3, 2005 by meep

[n15m0]

very interesting....very tempted to try...someone should test this out and report to ACA...

[nOOSE]

well i'm gonna give it a go. read the full site adn it seems to make sense . bought some fuel yesterday without acetone and will try acetone next tank. will also note down how many k's and it's response. anyone else want to be test dummies.?

would be good to get an overall concensus

nOOSE

[PHATR32]

im gonna try it in my bros old laser on the weekend! its good having a shit car to do tests on!

steve

[0HR-30T]

Isn't enamal paint thinners 90% odd Acetone?

[Lithius]

How much does this stuff cost?

[n15m0]

correct me if i'm wrong but isn't acetone really just nail polish remover?? or does it have to be a special kind of acetone??

[meep]

i bought 1lt yesterday from k-mart $11, will try it soon, just doing a bit more reading.

it is one of the chemicals in nail polish remover.

i dont think it would damage anthing it's only 30mls to every 40lts, plus it is only a glass and metal cleaner... so... ill give it a shot.

[LUMPY]

A good combo to try is Acetone and Toluene.

[Lithius]

Hmm I think I will give this a go, will head down to K-mart and put some in when I fill up next to see if it improves on economy. So you just add it like an octane booster? They say to use 2.5ml per Litre... so for my 55L that's like 140ml per tank.

Edited October 5, 2005 by Lithius

[Tigger]

Im concerned about the acetone eating away at the rubber tubings...

[Lithius]

They say they have had dozens of different plastic/rubber parts soaking in a 90% fuel/10% acetone mixture (a lot higher than they recommend you use) for several months with no signs of wear.

[grim32]

we have some at work, ill dump a bit in my excel tomorrow and see what happens. did anyone see myth busters when they put the moth balls in the fuel, increased octane and rpm picked up

[dangaz]

Read this post yesterday,

had some acetone where I work as a lab technician, prior to this done some reasearch and found a few sites with an emphasis on racing recom 5% by volume. Acetone 100ml/L (pure analytical grade) 1L added to 20 odd L of prem. Very happy, can't wait to leave work and get back in the line.

[midnight]

Ive heard of acetone being used to suspend water in fuel that could be interesting

[Lithius]

Is there an acetone craze going on...? I went to 5 different stores, and each had the label for acetone and a price but all were out of stock! at one place there was a little 500ml bottle and i picked it up and thought "narh there'll be a bigger one here somewhere" - the guy next to me swipes it and says "hope you weren't planning on buying that" then he giggled merrily to himself and proceeded to the checkout.

Managed to get the last one available at bunnings although I had to settle for a 4L tin for $28.99

[n15m0]

Hmmm...maybe its not just a myth after all...people have started to pick up on it!

[grim32]

my excel had a bit under 1/4 tank and i put 355ml (a beer bottle) of acetone in. drove around stop start, left to right. temp stayed normal, no miss, no post ignition. everything stayed the same, it might have gone a little bit better mid range, but cant swear on that, anyway it done no damage at all and ill be interested to see if any of you guys get good results.