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Old 12-31-2008, 10:17 AM
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Increase mpg by 15% with pure acetone?????

Watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHAUsGlfbx8
 

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Old 12-31-2008, 10:28 AM
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Complete BS wont happen. The whole video is retarded.

New ECU's adjust for decreased airflow from dirty filters, not going to make that big of a difference. Acetone is going to ruin your injectors.

This has also been disproved on myth busters.
 
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I won't put that crap in my engine.
 
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Apparently the jury is still out based on "research" from other sites that have discussed this. Those with experience and some mechanics suggest that pure acetone might not (?????) eat at the injectors, engine's plastics and rubbers as suggested (it does come in a plastic bottle). For some it seems to work and for others it's a scary idea. Mythbusters did a stint on it, but, according to several reports, did not use pure acetone, thus contaminating their findings.

I would never use it, but for the brave few, it has been tried with little known damage.
 
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Good info!!! I ran across this idea accidentally on YOUTUBE and thought to throw it onto the boards to see what others thought. It's controversial.
 
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Grounding wires will give you a 20% mpg increase
 
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Originally Posted by ckkone
Grounding wires will give you a 20% mpg increase
 
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Old 12-31-2008, 01:48 PM
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Ethanol and acetone are virtually the same aren't they? I think acetone has an extra carbon atom on its molecule, meaning it'll require a richer mixture to combust. Hell, if you were to balance the equations for combustion, acetone would require an additional oxygen molecule to combust, meaning you'll get even worse gas mileage than with the addition of ethanol. I'm probably wrong, though. I change from chemical engineering to computer engineering because I was too dumb for the former...so take what I say with a crater of salt.
 
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I've heard that if you put petrol in your tank, you'll get around 24-28 mpg.

I meant to say that I told this to a buddy who was like, "hmm, where can I get petrol"...I just stood there, dumbfounded
 
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wow...they should give you a nobel prize for this finding.
 
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I'm too lazy to do this anyway. If it doesn't come out of the nozzle pre-mixed, it's not worht my time
 
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