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Apparently increases your mpg, sounds too good to be true though :wtf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHAUsGlfbx8&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Nova_Tek
13-03-11, 10:50 PM
Someone on here needs to try it and then post up the results. I'd try it but I need an engine first lol
lol @ one of the comments on yourtube 'gas is now $4 a gallon' Amazing when it's almost double the price over here :(
Mythbusters busted that one iirc
just how much does acetone cost?
lol @ one of the comments on yourtube 'gas is now $4 a gallon' Amazing when it's almost double the price over here :(
$4 a gallon = 65p a litre.
Mind you, if we didn't pay duty on fuel, we'd be paying the same price.
the main problem is that the americans travel huge distances from home to work, or the shop, and still consider their trips to be local....and then they have traffic lights everywhere, so their stop start types of journeys use loads of fuel
its crap, me ad some mates tried it back in the day, killed a mates xr2...
its crap, me ad some mates tried it back in the day, killed a mates xr2...
so you used acetone to kill an xr2???? you did put it in the tank, didn't you???
Does seem to good to be true, but if someone used it long term and had no problems i might consider using it.
Just watched the vid. LMFAO at him doing the test over about 800 miles. Thats not exactly scientific. I could get you exactly the same results from my mileage records!
Mind you, I did manage to gain 10mpg by driving style on one test.
jack, drive at 56mph on the motorway & sit behind a wagon, then see what your fuel mileage is.....
Considering you can no longer easily buy acetone over the counter from pharmacists like you used to be able too, an anyine who retails it needs a hazardous chemical license which also applies to any courier companys used to deliver it, an the actual cost of is now not far off the same as petrol, the pro's massivly outweight the cons.
i had some fun with acetone a few years back..... i was helping a bloke to put a barn up, when doing the concrete bases, we hit some running sand so he says i can get some 45 gallon drums, they'll hold it ok.. so we stuck these drums in the ground & they had unclippable tops.. we were taking them off as the mixer arrived, and one had a few gallons of acetone still in it.. i was pouring concrete in the others when i heard 'WHOOOOOOMPHH' and looked round to see the bloke looking very scared and standing next to what looked like a kuwait oil fire........... he'd lit it. that stuff makes petrol fires look like cat farts....
the pro's massivly outweight the cons.
Don't you mean that the other way round?
that stuff makes petrol fires look like cat farts....
Which is why it'd make the engine det more than pure petrol, as well as needing much less air to burn, i.e a lower AFR. I don't doubt it does improve your MPG when it's running a massively lean burn and creating masses of heat earlier in the cycle, until it blows the rods out the sump and melts the pistons lol
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