[0.5 pony]

Greetings,
Anyone try adding acetone (nail polish remover) in with the gas?
My buddy with a 2008 GT V8 conv turned me on to research done regarding improving power and mpg by adding 2.5 ounces of acetone to 15 gaslons of gas.
He didn't want to do try it on his car, so I tried it. I have data for the last five tanks. There was an increase, but the mpg is back down to where it was.

[Trick Tuners]

post up your data.

[tom_vilsack]

sounds same as adding

methyl hydrate (wood alcohol)...a trick of adding 1L per tank to pass local emission tests

[OHC230]

The addition of acetone to fuels is not new. There are several fuel additives currently on the market which use various levels of acetone as a main ingredient. It has been used by researchers and chemists over the years, to retard flame speed on various fuels as well. It makes a decent octane booster and when combined with increased spark timing can improve mileage and power. One rather large drawback to using acetone in a modern fuel system would be its corrosive tendencies. It will eat through or solidify a wide variety of commonly used rubber materials in a fuel system: something to think about. Although acetone is naturally produced by and disposed of in the human body as a result of the body's natural metabolic processes, it also poses health risks at higher concentration levels and can cause damage to the body’s central nervous system and may cause coughing, dizziness, dullness, and headache, central nervous system depression, narcosis, and unconsciousness according to the MSDS. Other than that, I like the stuff

[Trick Tuners]

Originally Posted by tom_vilsack sounds same as adding methyl hydrate (wood alcohol)...a trick of adding 1L per tank to pass local emission tests

No, wood alcohol is methanol CH3-OH Acetone is CH2COCH2. Its not even in the same chemical group. All of these additives are a total waste of money and will do nothing except waste your $ and possibly harm your fuel system.

[hockey]

Originally Posted by Trick Tuners No, wood alcohol is methanol CH3-OH Acetone is CH2COCH2. Its not even in the same chemical group. All of these additives are a total waste of money and will do nothing except waste your $ and possibly harm your fuel system.

+1

[03SonicBoom]

Put Acetone on something rubber or plastic and watch what happens to the component. No way I would ever put that in my fuel system just to try and save a few pennies.

[92mustang04yfz]

Originally Posted by 03SonicBoom Put Acetone on something rubber or plastic and watch what happens to the component. No way I would ever put that in my fuel system just to try and save a few pennies.

X2!!

[Matt Cramer]

Unless you have something clogging up your fuel system that the acetone ends up dissolving, I would not expect any improvement. There's a very good page where an OEM engine calibration engineer took a look at the claims for it here:

Fuel saving gadgets - a professional engineer's view: Acetone

[Enzo_Guy]

Originally Posted by OHC230 The addition of acetone to fuels is not new. There are several fuel additives currently on the market which use various levels of acetone as a main ingredient. It has been used by researchers and chemists over the years, to retard flame speed on various fuels as well. It makes a decent octane booster and when combined with increased spark timing can improve mileage and power.

So what you're saying is it is basically a redneck meth injection?

Oh, and as a side note acetone is used as a wash chemical in an absolutely astounding number of chemical processes. This also includes the manufacture of most illegal drugs that require a chemical process to create (generally used to clean the final product of remaining impurities), but recently many street chemistry operations have cut this final acetone wash process out to save time and money.

[OHC230]

So what you're saying is it is basically a redneck meth injection?

That is friggin hysterical!

Actually, some serious research has been conducted with derivatives of acetone. I know that proponents of hydrogen motor fuel were trying to use an acetone derivative to retard flame speed.

It is my understanding that you need quite a bit of acetone to mix with gasoline to effectively increase the octane. I believe it is 15% acetone added to 85% gas, gives you 100 octane fuel.

I have never tried it, but like I stated before, many companies use it in varying amounts in their fuel treatments and it shows up in their patents.

When it is diluted with gasoline, small amounts are apparently harmless to your fuel system, but what the hell: your fuel system will rot away regardless of the acetone.

Since I am running basically a 12:1 motor in my car, it would be great if I could get away with this, but I'm not interested, just by the nature of the health effects and the a fore mentioned corrosive tendencies. Instead of Fast and Furious, I'd be Slow and Dead. I may as well run Hydrazine. Now there's a fuel additive!

But seriously, I am using water/alcohol injection to suppress detonation in my car and it is working just fine. Much cheaper that acetone at $6.00 a gallon.

Can we kill this thread now??

[JBIGBOOTSY]

Toulene, or xylene foo! google it.

[Cgross609]

Christ. Anyone ever heard of the old farmers tales of adding a gallon of diesel to twenty five of gas? This was a common practice back in the 70's and the 80's because gas was so dry. Best to stay far away from it now though. Prolly wreck all the EFi components and whatnot.

[MamaStang]

I heard adding sugar to your tank works wonders.




*not really - this is purely sarcastic - do not do it.*

[blaten22]

Originally Posted by MamaStang I heard adding sugar to your tank works wonders. *not really - this is purely sarcastic - do not do it.*

[03SonicBoom]

Originally Posted by MamaStang I heard adding sugar to your tank works wonders. *not really - this is purely sarcastic - do not do it.*

[Cgross609]

Oh relly? lol

[MamaStang]