Acetone in gas

alikerimbey · 04-22-2007, 02:58 PM

Has anyone ever tried mixing a small amount of acetone with their gas to improve mileage and performance?

It's supposedly increases mileage by "improving the fuel's ability to vaporize completely by eliminating the surface tension that causes an increase in particulate vaporization temperature".

If you are interested, have a look:

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directo..._Fuel_Additive

Cheers.

Poolside · 04-22-2007, 03:14 PM

Toss in some benzene and toluene while you're at it.

- Jim

SD929 · 04-22-2007, 04:47 PM

Mythbusters did this very thing, and it had no effect at all.

Anorak · 04-22-2007, 04:52 PM

Try some nitropropane.

aardschok · 04-22-2007, 08:01 PM

I wouldn't mix it into any gasoline, unless you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that the rubber pieces in the carb./fuel injector can handle the acetone. I've used acetone to clean the varnish off carb parts. Anything that was rubber just turned to putty.

markjenn · 04-22-2007, 10:23 PM

It's been tested by several including the Mythbusters folks. Results: either no effect or a decrease in mileage.

The arguments for acetone working are no different than fuel catalyst tablets, vortex generators, fuel magnets, or the 150 mpg carburetors that Detroit was keeping off the market. All this stuff is sold under a junk science guise.

Point of fact is that all modern internal combustion engines extract nearly every possible BTU of energy from each drop of gasoline - there is nothing left to "burn more completely", "make the molecules combust better", or "align the molecules for more complete combustion". The last 40 years or so have been spent trying to get gasoline to combust as near perfectly as possible for emissions reasons and we've succeeded. There's nothing left on the table - future fuel mileage increases are gonig to occur with reduction in friction, aero, weight reduction, hybrid technology, etc., not burning the gas better.

- Mark

R_W · 04-23-2007, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Poolside

Toss in some benzene and toluene while you're at it.

- Jim

Ever read the ingredients of a can of Berryman carb cleaner fuel additive??

IF you get a gain from ANY of this stuff it is because it cleaned a dirty fuel system so it could run as it was supposed to.

Poolside · 04-23-2007, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by R_W

Ever read the ingredients of a can of Berryman carb cleaner fuel additive??

IF you get a gain from ANY of this stuff it is because it cleaned a dirty fuel system so it could run as it was supposed to.

I was joking bubba

They are major gasoline constituents.

- Jim<

04-22-2007, 02:58 PM	#1
alikerimbey ^OP lame adventurer Joined: Aug 2006 Location: Monaco Oddometer: 137	Acetone in gas Has anyone ever tried mixing a small amount of acetone with their gas to improve mileage and performance? It's supposedly increases mileage by "improving the fuel's ability to vaporize completely by eliminating the surface tension that causes an increase in particulate vaporization temperature". If you are interested, have a look: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directo..._Fuel_Additive Cheers.

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Poolside Syndicated Joined: Apr 2003 Location: Long Beach, CA Oddometer: 11,286	Toss in some benzene and toluene while you're at it. - Jim __________________ IICE Air Hotrod your GS Fuel Injection Tech Info Buy Order List

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Anorak Woolf Barnato Joined: Jul 2004 Location: OAK Oddometer: 29,150	Try some nitropropane. __________________ 'Gonna get me a six pack...push people off the highway!' "they live off the carrion of our mutual distrust and bribe us with symbols that equate hatred with manhood." "I mean at the end of the day, I was addicted to Starting Fluid for Christ's sake!" "Yeah, that guy sure is terrible at touching moms"

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aardschok Fallout Rider Joined: Jan 2007 Location: State of Apathy Oddometer: 508	I wouldn't mix it into any gasoline, unless you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that the rubber pieces in the carb./fuel injector can handle the acetone. I've used acetone to clean the varnish off carb parts. Anything that was rubber just turned to putty. __________________ "You don't have a choice. You are older at this moment than you’ve ever been before, and it’s the youngest you’re ever going to get." Aardschok MVT

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04-22-2007, 04:47 PM	#3
SD929 RandomTask Joined: Jul 2006 Location: Where am I and what am I doing in this basket? Oddometer: 69	Mythbusters did this very thing, and it had no effect at all.

04-22-2007, 10:23 PM	#6
markjenn Beastly Adventurer Joined: Nov 2003 Location: Swellvue, WA Oddometer: 9,700	It's been tested by several including the Mythbusters folks. Results: either no effect or a decrease in mileage. The arguments for acetone working are no different than fuel catalyst tablets, vortex generators, fuel magnets, or the 150 mpg carburetors that Detroit was keeping off the market. All this stuff is sold under a junk science guise. Point of fact is that all modern internal combustion engines extract nearly every possible BTU of energy from each drop of gasoline - there is nothing left to "burn more completely", "make the molecules combust better", or "align the molecules for more complete combustion". The last 40 years or so have been spent trying to get gasoline to combust as near perfectly as possible for emissions reasons and we've succeeded. There's nothing left on the table - future fuel mileage increases are gonig to occur with reduction in friction, aero, weight reduction, hybrid technology, etc., not burning the gas better. - Mark