anyone read this?? true? untrue?

NOW I understand!

Thanks, Barry

OK I have a small scoop I used to work for environment Canada with vehicle emissions section I commuted 385km each day to work ya I know crazy but money was worth it and it was only for 7 month contract. after a month I started adding 2 ounces of acetone to 42L my mileage went from 600 kms a tank to 791 kms a tank then I stopped for a month back to 600kms a tank then again with acetone and it went back up tank amount to fill was always

42L 01 dodge neon manual with a/c same route everyday summer weather same gas station. You be the judge.

Dad, Seeme to me, if this works, they would already be doing it..

Comments?

Nonsense! With fuel injectors, vaporization is not an issue. Acetone worked in those trials because it cleaned dirty injectors, I suspect. They did not finish the experiment, properly. To be valid, they should have run fuel efficiency trials , again without acetone, to see if what they really did was clean the injectors.

Love,

Dad

He'd be more like an older brother to you, but the two of you are like peas in a pod...

Thanks for doing that, Matt, and a tip-o-the hat to your dad. I now remember that acetone was the main ingredient in my ex-wife's nail polish remover, so injector cleaning seems likely.

Poking around the URL I find that it is a loaded with woohoo perpetual motion devices, ambient air-powered turbine heater/cooling units and "gravity motors" -- which should give a good indication of how reasonable the idea is. My favorite was the "Brown's/Rhode's gas" -- you split water into mixed oxygen and hydrogen and then use the gas to neutralize radioactive waste, cut titanium, turn feldspar into moonstone or heal wounds, and the only by byproduct of combustion is new water!

Me, Im going to start marketing a pyramid-shaped magnetic air cleaner that will boost power by 35%, increase mileage by 17% and reduce greenhouse gasses by up to 69%, and it will be powered by a simple 9 volt battery.

I'll make a fortune.

Yeah, but don't forget the tinfoil beanie for safety or else it'll act as an antenna for mind control transmissions and beam them directly to your brain!

Drifter "I've been here, I've been there..."

From what I read farther down the page in the 'update' section, the author recently did reverse trials without the acetone and with each tank filled up from half-full, the mileage dropped accordingly.

Also, Throttle Body Fuel Injection _does_ require vaporisation. Not as much as a carb, but the throttle body is a long way from the cumbustion chamber to just throw liquid into it and exect it to vaporise by itself. I've seen dirty TB injectors in my Chevy 4.3 V6 shoot streams of gas into the body and the engine ran like crap. Clean out those needles in the TBI and it can fix it right up. Direct injection of course, just blows fuel right into the cylinders (or a lot closer to them) than TBI.

I suspect (like the replyer's Dad) that acetone did have something to do with cleaning the injectors, and that can make a HUGE difference in mileage, power and everything else the engine puts out.

Cheers, - Jeff G