Anyone seen this gas mileage idea???????

[surpip]

Awsome ill try it soon for sure. Especially with smog coming up soon

 

[MTMike]

Here's my most effective gas mileage improvement

 

[pvfjr]

I don't know, you'd have to eat a lot of beans to power that thing across the state...

 

[diesel4me]

I dont get it??

I was at the hardware store today getting spare keys made for my car--while I was waiting,I was looking around,and noticed all the cans of paint thinners and other flammable stuff....

I used to use denatured alcohol for dry-gas in the winter,and add some to my windsheild washer tank--it was 5 bucks last time I bought some a few years ago..so I looked to see the price,and I was shocked!

Now its 10.99 a gallon!--Acetone,Zylene,and Tolune were 15.99 a gallon! --

Tell me again how I'm saving money on gas by paying nearly SIXTEEN BUCKS for a gallon of something other than gas??--last time I got gas(this morning)it was 2.13 a gallon-I can get 7+ gallons of gas for that!-doesn't sound so bad compared to the other stuff!--I'm glad my vehicles dont run on acetone !! (and no wonder its so expensive to have a house painted now!)

I once got a lady home from a department store just before closing time when she ran out of gas in the parking lot--I took her to the sporting goods section,and told her to buy 2 gallons of coleman camping stove fuel!--its nothing more than naptha,one of gasolines main ingredients--her car started right up,and just to be safe I followed her home--and nearly ended up staying the night --she called a few days later,said her car was "pinging" a little,but it went away after she filled it with premium..I later learned that Naptha in the paint and hardware section was much less! --but its not anymore!!

Youre going to hear all kinds of "tricks" to increase mileage now that the gas prices are high,just like the 70's when the arab oil embargo was on,everone and their cousin will be inventing "fuel saving devices",and printing booklets on "how to get better gas mileage" by adding moth balls to the gas tank(I wonder how many moths nuts it takes to increase mileage?? )--all the stuff is bogus 99% of the time..just a way to cash in on the current situation..

 

[blazerguy 90]

adding acetone to your gas works, ive been doing for 2 weeks now and there has been a big improvement in my gas mileage, I use 6 ounces of acetone in 30 gallons of gas, not only has my gas mileage gone up, I also picked up a slight gain in power. it would normally take a half a tank of gas to drive up and see my cousin 140 miles from my house, after adding the acetone to the gas I was able to drive to his house on a c-hair over a quarter of a tank. thats a big improvement in my opinion. and by the way, I average 75 mph on the highway, so it well worth it to me.

 

[tiger9297]

You can buy 1 gallon of Acetone around here for $9.00. Also, you are only adding around 3 oz. / gal. of gas so one gallon should last for a while. Of course that depends on how much you drive.

 

[dirtwarrior17]

It's not worth it around here.... even it does work and doesn't hurt anything your only saving a few bucks every gallon of acetone. I'd rather lose that 1 mpg and know that my truck is not running on anything it was not made to run on... don't you think if this really doesn't hurt anything and helps mileage that they would have been doing this for years and even selling acetone mixed gas at the pumps? I'd rather not take the chance of screwing up my brand new 355... nobody on this site has done it long enough to know if it cause any long term damage. Since my truck will get better mileage on 91 than it would with 87 (10:1 compression) i'll keep buying the 91 and take the hit.

 

[fatbob]

Dirt,
Please quit while you are behind. I agree with surpip that you need to get your facts straight BEFORE posting. You could not even relay what your father did correctly. I understand you want to be helpful, but when you dont have your facts straight, you screw up the thread because then your misinformation needs to be corrected.

 

[hi pinion]

Hey dirtwarrior, check it out

 

[kyser_soze]

I'll check it out. I have been keeping track of my gas mileage in the same truck for 4 years. I made a program for my computer and everything is documented over that time. The gas mileage has been consistant except on the occasions when I do towing.

 

[Fierospeeder]

a truck running at 400ppm in the first place has something wrong with it. I had older vehicles run cleaner then that.

Maybe this atomizes the fuel just like the magnet around the fuel line


Gas will continue to go up with people gunning it to red lights. Around here, i dont think people really care how much gas costs once they are driving. There is no mid throttle, it is just WOT on public streets.

Heres an idea. When your a mile away from home, get it up to speed, put it in neutral, then turn the engine off. Coast home and that is like getting 1000mpg.

 

[dirtwarrior17]

Dirt,
Please quit while you are behind. I agree with surpip that you need to get your facts straight BEFORE posting. You could not even relay what your father did correctly. I understand you want to be helpful, but when you dont have your facts straight, you screw up the thread because then your misinformation needs to be corrected.

Uh i corrected myself and said it was a 383 with 10:1 that benefited and the rest was backed up by the article. the acetone causing damage is my opinion. I have worked with the stuff and have seen what it does to rtv, rubber etc.and i can't just go talk to my dad... he is 500 miles away in a veterans hospital.

fatbob: what did i say that was wrong? I corrected myself before surpip posted that and what i said is backed up in the article... I seriously don't get this. the article says too much acetone kills gas mileage from too much octane in the fuel. I said it raises the octane.... how is that wrong?

And why are you bringing this up? i said nothing about that argument just stated my opinion on the subject and that opinion is the same that many have with this subject as stated before. god damn this is getting old.

I'd bet money(and win on account of your 139 posts in 2 years)that you took one look at the post and decided i was the one giving misinformation without even researching it.

 

[4X4HIGH]

I don't know if this whole thing works or not but you do realize that there are 128 oz. in a gallon so that means that 1 gallon of acetone would mix with anywhere from 426-1280 gallons of fuel. This is assuming the 1-3 oz per 10 gallons of fuel that it states is typically used.This equates to about $0.12 per ounce of acetone or basically anywhere from $0.36 - $1.08 per 31 gallons of fuel.

 

[dirtwarrior17]

Who here is going to try this?

 

[dirtwarrior17]

fatbob: Ok i looked over your post again and your right... i posted the wrong info about the octane and higher gas mileage for a regular compression motor. I did correct it after. the rest i still stand by tho.

 

[y5mgisi]

Math is good. I'll try it in my DD toyota camry. It allmost allways gets exactly 30 mpg. so i would easily be able to notice a change. I'll go get 10 gallons tonight and report back here in a couple weeks when it runs out

 

[diesel4me]

More MPG??

I dont dispute that adding Acetone might increase GAS mileage--but what about pistons,rings,and valves per mile??

I would not add something potentially harmful to MY gas tank unless I"m trying to blow up and old motor on purpose!

I'd hate to find out after paying 16 bucks a gallon,that I did gain 1-2 mpg,but melted a piston or burnt a valve in the process!

I filled my 69 GTO with airplane fuel in the late 70's--it ran great,I was able to advance the timing quite a bit,it felt like a whole new engine!--but after 2 tanks it started skipping,one cylinder lost most of its compression--I took the heads off,and 3 exhaust valves were badly warped and burnt!--but it was fun while it lasted--cost 400 bucks to get the heads done over and re-installed--could have bought a lot of "regular" gas for that money...it got worse mileage on the aviation fuel too to boot...but that might have been because I was romping on it some..

Even if it was completely harmless,I cant see any savings when its so costly..

Someone needs to invent a car that runs on raw sewage!--use the methane to run the motor--no shortage of that on planet earth..

 

[jekbrown]

gonna have to run this by my dad to see what he thinks. Back when he was at the plant fulltime, he made his own FI-cleaner gas additive... pretty sure it used toluene and some other stuff... I dunno, maybe acetone too. I'll see what he thinks. Always handy having a resident research chemist.

j

 

[smalltruckbigcid]

Hmmmm, some rough numbers. If a gal of acetone costs $10. then 1 oz =12.8 cents. Putting 2 oz's per 10 gals of gas would cost .26cents (a gal would last for 32 fillups at 2oz.per for a 20 gal fill). If the car gets 30mpg before and gains 20% mieage then it would get 36mpg. So for 1000 miles of driving you would use 33.3 gals of gas untreated and 27.7 in the treated mode, so in this example you would save 5.4 gals of gas which is $10.80 at 2.20 a gal for the gas. The savings would be $108.00 for 10,000 miles.
Is it worth it? If you have an E85 vehicle I don't believe acetone would damage the fuel system, but I don't know for sure. I do know many diesel fuel additive mfg's state their product does not contain any acetone, and the EPA damn sure doesn't want any in there. This whole thing smells like the fish carburater, but thats my sceptical nature.
George

 

[dirtwarrior17]

I dont dispute that adding Acetone might increase GAS mileage--but what about pistons,rings,and valves per mile??

I would not add something potentially harmful to MY gas tank unless I"m trying to blow up and old motor on purpose!

I'd hate to find out after paying 16 bucks a gallon,that I did gain 1-2 mpg,but melted a piston or burnt a valve in the process!

thats what im screamin...