Acetone
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Ditto.
I have used acetone. Also, interesting stuff. I used it last year for 3 tankfulls, It was interesting, Much quieter running engine, performance went up a little. But i heard to be carefull with that stuff, because it does degrade certain plastics ect. I got a quart of it, True value brand, form hardware store. In my opinion, it felt as if it was octane booster.
remember, acetone is the mildest of solvents. there are chemicals in gas that are far more caustic...not to worry
See I dont understand how its a good cleaner in fuel. I mean I use it all the time to clean parts and such, but in fuel we keep hearing "its perfectly safe since the other solvents in gas are much stronger", if thats the case then acetone wont do anything to help clean deposits. If all the other solvents in gas are stronger, and they arent doing anything to help stop deposits, then how can the weakest of them all do it at like a 1:640 ratio? Toluene is a stronger cleaner than acetone and its already in gas at a 5-15% mix(octane). I don't think it will harm anything, to me its a bigger question as to, "is it HELPING anything?".
I think it would probably be better to use it for the octane benefits(to premium gas) than it would be to use it as a cleaner. You again just have to be very careful in handling it around your paintjob or you will get a very unpleasant surprise one day when you spill it.
I think it would probably be better to use it for the octane benefits(to premium gas) than it would be to use it as a cleaner. You again just have to be very careful in handling it around your paintjob or you will get a very unpleasant surprise one day when you spill it.
If you do a weighted average, 3 oz of 150 octane in 10 gal. of 87 octane, you come up with something like 87.147 octane.....
Yup. And if you take a high octane fuel like 93, if you want to get 100 octane fuel out of it, you must run acetone at about 15%!
That means in a 10 gallon tank, you are running 8.5 gallons of premium 93 and 1.5 gallon of acetone. Doesn't really strike me as the best thing to be doing.
Stop bothering people with logic. Some guy on some website says it works, what more proof do you need?
I did try acetone once. Didn't seem to do much other than softening my fuel cap gasket... was about a month before I started hearing that whooshing sound when I popped the cap open again. I'm guessing my rubber fuel lines didn't appreciate it either. Never again.
I filled a Amsoil PI bottle with acetone and left it sit for an hour or so. The container was melting and about to collapse. Now what to do with the five gallons of Ace Extra Strength Acetone recently given to me. Any suggestions.....better retract that!
Yes its true that small amounts of acetone raise octane very little, but it also has an effect on the combustion process. acetone evaporates very quickly but it burns more slowly than the other hydrcarbons in your gas. So the slower burn will act like more octane.
Hexane, a major component of gasoline, evaporates even faster than acetone. As for the rate of burn, I need more variables defined to evaluate that statement. Is there anyone, anywhere on the planet, that has actual data on wether acetone (at recommended dosages) has any effect on any measurable phenomenon?
For those that need a reference for evaporation rate of hexane verses acetone:
http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/evaporationrate.html
http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/evaporationrate.html
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