Acetone In Fuel Said to Increase Mileage, Has anyone tried this?
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17 years ago
Acetone In Fuel Said to Increase Mileage, Has anyone tried this?
*MAYBE* it'll increase your mileage, *DEFINITELY* it'll increase your garage-time/repair bills as it eats anything rubber in the fuel system.
I have an old car to test things on. One time I cleaned out a garage and there were bags and bags of dry gas, essentially alcohol. I dumped it all in. Then I had extra mineral spirits and naphtha. I did try some acetone also and in quantities greater than those sites recommend. There was no measurable difference in mileage beyond the added volume of what I added and fortunately, no damage of note. A couple ounces of acetone probably won't hurt anything, but why would anyone bother unless they had an old clunker they were trying to kill.
Many years ago I used to use about a pint of acetone twice a year to clean out the fuel system. This was on a car driven about 20,000 miles a year. At that time hi-test was 36 cents a gallon so i did not check gas mileage. Stan
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I just checked my can of CRC / Fuel Injector / Air-Intake Cleaner / Teflon Safe which Contains Propane, Xyene, Toluene, Acetone, and the list goes on. If you checked the percentage of acetone that is to be added the most that will happen is you get a clean fuel system. I only put 5100 miles a year on my car so it would take some time to see if this had any increase in mileage. Stan
I just checked my can of CRC / Fuel Injector / Air-Intake Cleaner / Teflon Safe which Contains Propane, Xyene, Toluene, Acetone, and the list goes on. If you checked the percentage of acetone that is to be added the most that will happen is you get a clean fuel system. I only put 5100 miles a year on my car so it would take some time to see if this had any increase in mileage. Stan
It is just an urban myth/meme which gets a run whenever the price of petrol spikes.
I read in an article by H. Indenburg, P.E. that heard that gasoline aerated with hydrogen will give an explosive increase in power.
Acetone has been used as engine fuel for many years the only question is does it help gas mileage.
It does have many properties like a very high anti-knock raing.
Well, yes there have been many exotic fuels used in cars. In my youth I loved the quarter mile drags...there were some eye-watering (and corosive) mixes used. But the O.P was asking about jazzing up fuel for normal everyday usage. A very poor idea, especially when the advice comes from some website.
Hopefully H. Indenburg himself will avoid being put in the tank - he has become a bit claustrophobic in old age. Yes, the Indenburg additive may be the fuel of the future, but not aerated as an enhancement to 93 octane gasoline.
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