15-35% mileage increase

[Interstate]

What about the Australians, and penguins in Antarctica? What about the penguins man!?!

Oh yeah, this isn't about earth. I talked to several mechanics today saying that acetone may or may not improve the mileage, but would definately eat away at the injectors, seals, o-rings, lines, and other things despite its dilution. Overtime it WOULD eat away at the seals an such.

"It may improve the MPG, but a few thousand miles down the road, the injectors would deteriorate and dump into the cylinder; which is obviously not good."

 

[bmxking5]

I think the only way to get better mileage is to buy a tornado.























Good luck to James and whoever else is trying this.

 

[jeff96]

rule number one! never ever talk about the secret ninja society! : )

 

[spindlecone]

Well...duh....if it was round, things would fall off.

Screw the Penguins, what do they do for us.
The flat earth exists, i can prove it, take a map of the U.S, put it on a table with the Canadian border on the upper edge.
Take one of your little Ex models and drive it north from say Texas until you reach Canada,WHAT HAPPENS? enough said, I'm right, your wrong.

 

[Brandons]

yeah canada's always got the upper edge

 

[aldive]

For those of us who are or will be evaluating the Acetone-Gasoline brew, please lay out the parameters of your testing, eg, gas used ( brand and octane ), computer tune ( stock or modified ), driving type ( city/highway/combo ), present mileage that you are comparing to, etc. Also what level of acetone will be used, procedure for adding acetone, purity of acetone used.

Who is/will be testing?

I will be evaluating on the return trip from the dyno session with Doug on April 9,

 

[spindlecone]

For those of us who are or will be evaluating the Acetone-Gasoline brew, please lay out the parameters of your testing, eg, gas used ( brand and octane ), computer tune ( stock or modified ), driving type ( city/highway/combo ), present mileage that you are comparing to, etc. Also what level of acetone will be used, procedure for adding acetone, purity of acetone used.

Who is/will be testing?

I will be evaluating on the return trip from the dyno session with Doug on April 9,

Al, Glad to hear your going to do this, it may have some benifits, maybe so, maybe not.
Parameters you state I think would be impossible, if your modded, flashed etc.
Your MPG are what they are, you get what you get, the way you are.
Your baseline MPG should be the benchmark, as you are at this time.
You can buy darn near pure Acetone at any hardware store, 5-6 bux per gal, or you can go to a medical supply house and buy reagent grade acetone for 80 bux a gallon keep it simple

 

[Nate1]

I'm going to call BS on this.

But I'll wait and see.

 

[762mm]

Acetone - my favorite degreaser!

Hmm... Very interesting stuff. I'm not a chemist, but have consistently used acetone on various parts as a degreaser... it's amazing how fast that thing will eat through almost any soft (and even harder) plastic I've tried it on, and dissolves paint (non-epoxy type paint) in just seconds, even if the surface has been painted for years...

As an example, I've spilled a few drops of acetone on the bumper of my 99 XLT by accident (I was de-greasing/cleaning a relay), and it dissolved the Ford paint almost on touch - now I have big ugly light colored spots on my gray bumper that wont go away, even though I poured water on the bumper right after the acetone fell on it, approx 2-3 seconds later (I had the water hose at my feet).

Another fine use I found for acetone is to degrease old military surplus grease typically found on arsenal stored firearms, called cosmoline (or something very similar - I love the smell of it!). Being a WWII era (and later) gun collector, I've used acetone to almost instantly remove and restore to bare-metal gun parts & barrels that have been covered in thick layers of cosmoline, which became rock-hard over time and impossible to remove with conventional gun cleaning products... Acetone is strong stuff!

Now, if you would ask me if I would pour that thing into the gas tank of my car (any car) for 1-2 mpg, I would most certainly say no. This stuff can literally dissolve some lighter plastics on contact when fully concentrated and make hard petroleum-based material soft (sometimes to the point of dissolving) after a minute or so. A small quantity in a huge tank may not seem like much, but I'm sure it will wash away gaskets, plastics, etc.. after a longer period of being pushed under pressure through the fuel system and into the engine itself (let's not forget the temperature factor here as well - it might even make it more potent, but I really don't know). All in all, I find it risky business...

Finally, I think someone would have to find out if this stuff, when mixed with gasolene, will not oxydize the inside of the tank and fuel lines (bleach and fuel in the gas tank DOES rust the entire tank beyond recognition overnight - I saw it happen on Mythbusters!) To all of you going for it, I say Godspeed!

 

[james t]

There is no possible way 4 ounces in 21 gallons of fuel is going to "eat up" anything. Acetone isnt as volatile as benzene...... and there is alot of benzene in pump gas.

I still dont think it will do a damn thing, but am willing to try for the heck of it.

 

[Ford_Racing_Guy]

thats what i was thinking james.


at most i would add 2 to 3 ounces to my 19 gallon tank

 

[spindlecone]

I'm going to call BS on this.

But I'll wait and see.

You exude an eliment of dougbt grasshopper
Let the testing begin

 

[spindlecone]

You are titrating 4OZ of acetone, in 20 gals of gas, is not going to hurt squat, sort of like pissing in the ocean, the sodium content of your urine will not raise the salt leval of the sea

 

[Albino 94LTD]

Test started this morning (3-31-05)

 

[spindlecone]

Test started this morning

When your injectors turn into mush, pls post on 911

 

[Albino 94LTD]

When your injectors turn into mush, pls post on 911

Check that forum tomorrow, I can hear the plastic melting now.

Just like the plastic squirt bottle I put it in so I can squirt it into the tank at the station.

 

[Brian_B]

Drive it all night and it won't get a chance to sit long enough to melt.

As I stated earlier the old berryman's had serious chemicals in it (tolulene, benzene, etc.) . I am going to say this won't hurt anything, but I doubt it improves anything (unles its a side effect and cleans the injectors)

 

[Albino 94LTD]

Judging by the melting of this #2 HDPE PLASTIC bottle and PLASTIC squirt cap that had 8oz of pure Acetone in it for the last 3 hours,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I'm not losing any sleep tonite










It did a nice job of cleaning of the sharpie though

 

[762mm]

True...

But you'd have to try it out on diffrent plastics and compare results. Usually, if it doesn't melt/change after a few minutes, it won't in the long run.

P.s. I cleaned my SOHC engine cover a few days ago with it and it melted down the porous area a bit after rubbing it with an acetone-soaked paper towel. Not by much, but I stopped before it did further damage... It will usually discolor plastics as well.

Also, my acetone came in a 4L white-plastic jug - proof that not ALL plastic will be melted by it.

 

[BBQ_HotDogs]

Don't do this to your vehicles. It will ruin them. If you need to clean your plugs, pull them or replace them. Don't burn your vehicle's engine up because someone is making a false claim. Toluene, xylenes, and even MTBE burns HOTTER than gasoline. These chemicals do make up gasoline, but only a small part. Unless you are a lab tech, DO NOT BLEND GASOLINE...