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anyone ever heard of this? better mpg this easily? (acetone dreams)

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A friend of mine is doing that at the moment. He is documenting the milage and general performance of his car. So far he has added 75 miles PER tank (sorry Defiant!)!

Not bad for only adding 4 oz. per fill up.
 
Don't forget the cow magnets for the fuel lines, and a Tornado intake mixer-upper. Add three or four more miracles, and you'll only be going to gas stations to empty out your tank.

Holistic medicine comes to automobiles, o joy.

Lookit. We've been driving things around on gas of one type or another for over a hundred years. It'd be a bit ....unlikely.... that a dribble of acetone would make any damned difference.
 
Defiant said:
Don't forget the cow magnets for the fuel lines, and a Tornado intake mixer-upper. Add three or four more miracles, and you'll only be going to gas stations to empty out your tank.

Holistic medicine comes to automobiles, o joy.

Lookit. We've been driving things around on gas of one type or another for over a hundred years. It'd be a bit ....unlikely.... that a dribble of acetone would make any damned difference.
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Would you like me to post the data he has collected? He has added 2-3 MPG so far by doing this.

Better yet, why don't you give it a whirl?
 
I had a friend in high school who's Chevy Sprint Plus would gain 1/16 of a tank every time he parked it. Somehow, despite this miracle, he still had to fill it up at the gas station every couple of weeks....

I want one of the VW two seat "1-Liter" cars. 285mpg. And that was 2003.
 
Whatever, I can add hundreds of miles to my tank by just not driving like a jerk. Placebo effect much?
 
Hey, if anyone has data available for our dsm's they should definitely post it. I am going to be adding acetone to my fuel asap and I will post my data when I have some.

-Vincent
 
This gave me 10 miles more per gallon. It also waxes my car and increases performance by at least 60 hp.




:rolleyes:
 
If this works as well, and is as harmless as they claim for your engine... why wouldn't shell/mobil.. etc put it in their gas before they sell it. I mean, shell made their "v-power" 93 octane around here just so they could charge an extra couple cents per gallon. I'm not going to call it a load of crap, but if shell oil.. or any gasoline company for that matter, introduced a fuel linup that cost say 10cents more a gallon and got you 5-10 more miles to the galon while helping your engine burn cleaner.. they would win like a nobel peace prize or some crap.
 
dthquazi1 said:
am i the only who thinks that car companies are in kahootz with the oil companies?
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Don't look now, but the earth's round.

You may be one of the last who thinks it.

Gasoline has about enough power to move a ton a hundred miles. A piston engine gets about a third of that energy out of it, and has to waste another third keeping itself alive. You find magical ways to get around these basic physical truths --such as the ceramic engines they promised us were coming in the seventies, and would get back some of that wasted heat-- and you can own the world.
It's not a matter of anything being "hidden" or "restricted" by the big, bad oil and car companies. There are no 100-mile-per-gallon carburetors being hidden, because they're no more possible than the Green Pill hoax.
You want better mileage? Get lighter. Ride a motorcycle and see 70 miles a gallon if you're on a small enough one. Get rid of 5mph bumpers, door intrusion beams, rollover frames, padded interiors, reinforced seatbacks, ABS, AC, PS, PB, and enough other law-required things, and you have a lighter car. As on a motorcycle, don't crash into anything. Take away enough stuff, settle for little enough power, and you can approach the FIAT 850's 60mpg at 60mph.

Everything's a tradeoff. Except physical laws.
 
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Would you like me to post the data he has collected? He has added 2-3 MPG so far by doing this.
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I'll look at lab data from an SAE Test Motor. Anecdotal "evidence" goes in the bin with the stories about the thirty pounds of cornflakes impacted in my intestines.
 
After reading that I think the guy is full of shit. There can't possibly be no downside to this of everyone would be doing it and he says he's had caburator parts soaking in it for years. I'm pretty sure if the stuff is designed to eat paint and is harmful to your skin it's harmful to rubber parts as well.


Alcohol is no good in fuels. In Brazil, millions of engines and fuel systems were ruined by alcohol. Yet they are talking of doubling the amount of alcohol in gasoline.
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Brazil runs 100% ethanol and after some early problem with running in monconverted cars, the new cars sol there all have the Ethanol parts upgrades.

The best gas and the worst gas in your neighborhood will likely have a 30-percent spread in mileage.
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So according to his own admission fuels from different stations have different mileage, as much as 30% so it would seem that the 30% variance in fuels is a greater factor in economy than the 15% increase in Accetone.

In below-zero weather, the water and alcohol can form abrasive, icy particles that may damage fuel pumps and clog injectors.
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He convenienty overlooks that the other major concentraion of alcohol and water in the engine doesn't freeze by design, the coolant? Also, water that forms on the gasoline of many fuletanks from dissuse can also freeze and he never says Accetone prevents water vapor from condensing in the fuel tank.

a SMOOTH flow of air into a carburetor or injector is far better
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there shouldn't be any air flowing into my injectors

Another is that cold intake air improves mileage. NO. Warm air improves mileage
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Well, we know cool air produces more power so with more power you could use less throttle to perform the same tasks, and his statement makes intercooler technology obsolete.

When using acetone, I often add one of several other mileage additives into my 16 oz. Walgreen's plastic acetone bottle which stays in the trunk so as not to carry a large quantity container in case I get rear-ended
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So although he attributes his mileage gain to accetone up to 30% can be from variances in fuel and then on top of that he adds other fuel additives as well?

Using the ScanGauge at 50MPH, my best mileage was 48-52 in my Neon a few weeks ago. Then I stopped the acetone to do some reverse testing. The next four tanks of the same Texaco gas showed 42-43, 37-38, 33-34, 30-31. No acetone when each tank was filled at half-full. The drop was about 20 MPG overall. Recent tests at a steady 50 MPH show 61-63 MPG in the Neon
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So he lost 20mpg without accetone but then misteriously gained 10mpg over his previous recordings when he stated using it agian? It seems if he can unexplainably gain 10mpg then he could mysteriously loose 10 MPG just as easily. So his claims of 15-35% imporvement could actually be 7-35% improvement but he chose not to look at the data in bothe directions (bias).

People report OVER 62 MPG in Toyota Prius vehicles with a tiny bit of acetone in the gas
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But in Motor Trend there's this little line

The 1.5L Inline 76hp engine gets 60/51 mpg according to the EPA
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Which gives an increase of 2mpg, that's only aroung 4% so actually you can expect a 4-35% increase in fuel economy when using accetone mixed with other products designed to increase fuel mileage.

And to furhter dicredit him, he dirves a Neon.

Also for the record my 1G N/T DSM would get 40mpg on the highway with no fuel additives of anykind. This form an engine with 190K+ miles, a hacked airbox, and a freer flowing exhaust.
 
I continued to the FAQ page and found this:
CAUTION: Acetone degrades cheaper plastics.
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That confirms what I initially expected.

This line form another link in the site:
FACTS. Absolute true facts. My Scan Gauge does not lie and neither do I. What data do these people show? Actual data. Actual test results.

Just for the record, it is gasoline in the oil that causes severe ring and wall wear. Anything that reduces or eliminates fuel from the area of the rings MUST reduce piston, ring and wall wear.
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Immediately afterf criticizing peoples for speculation about it he makes a pretty broad speculation himself. He's never gatherend actual data or actual test results that this stuff educes fuel from gettting past the rings. (Actually he syas area of the rings which there should be, that's the rings job).
 
This is exactly why most of this magical crap gets looked over. It is all subjective and there are so many variables that it is impossible to see if it actually made an improvement. Plus, like Defiant said alot of time has passed what makes any of you guys think that some dude in a garage found the miracle that a highly funded corporation hasn't found?
 
Some people like conspiracy therories. IF you use this the men in black will come for you :cool:
 
splattj said:
I had a friend in high school who's Chevy Sprint Plus would gain 1/16 of a tank every time he parked it. Somehow, despite this miracle, he still had to fill it up at the gas station every couple of weeks....

I want one of the VW two seat "1-Liter" cars. 285mpg. And that was 2003.
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ehh? tell me more about this.
 
I know a sure way to gain gas mileage. It's called keep your foot out of the gas ROFL
 
how to get better gas mileage...

1. go get a blender, some graper juice, and some spam.
2. put the grape juice and spam in the blender.
3. mix until it is completely liquid.
4. drink half of the contents and pour the other half in your gas tank.
5. smash the blender over your head.

I do this like once a week.
 
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