Call me crazy but I am nearly sold on the idea of this topic that popped up in my shop today.

I was talking to a guy in my shop today that has a 94' Z28 that is centrifigally supercharged. He asked if I had ever run "race gas" and that he was doing some research on a "home brewed race octane booster." He said with just over a gallon of this stuff added to 4 gallons of 98 octane that we have at the pump here, that it was supposed to be close to 110 octane!!!!

I have read many magazine articles that claim octane booster in store bought cans only raise actual octane .3-.7 points. I am including the link to this research so you can give opinions. I believe it is possible since the ingredients are already ingredients in regular gasoline. reply and tell me what you think.

heres the links:

http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/misc/octaneexplained.html

http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/misc/octanebooster.html

Hope this is of help I know I AM going to try it out, will let you know of my results.

GSXTACY

yes it work.
But Ive never tried its.

I have a 60 gallon drum of 100 oct in the garage for my car.
maybe when i get the big turbo I'll switch to 104 oct.

Mobil 1 for $2.10 a quart too.

Its nice to have a nieghbor that work for a fuel company.

So basically what that site says is...

If I mix 3 Gallons of Xylene with 10 Gallons of 92 Octane Premium unleaded fuel I have just made myself 13 Gallons of 99.5 Octane fuel for an extra $2.75?

I usually Buy race gas at the track but I feel that this could save me a ton of money... Now I just have to have the balls to test this on my car and hope I don't blow it up in the process. Does anyone know if doing this causes and problems in the long term?

I think Warren Chang down in madison runs it on his supra all the time.

I have done tgis with Xylene. But around me(Pa) the crap is expensive. I paid $11 dallars for 1 gallon at a MAB paint store. Anyboby know where to get it cheaper?

xylene ~ 115 octane
toulene ~114 octane

if you want cheap prices you need to go to a sherwin willaims and buy 5gallon cans of it, last time i bought one it was ~$26 for 5gallons. you can also get 1gallon cans for ~$7.

if you go to your local ace hardware store they are ~$10 for 1 gallon cans

c16 for 7 dollars a gallon, mmmm crack for my dsm

Octane-wise, adding toluene or zylene sould work.

Long term, I dunno.

Gasolines have lots of other stuff in it, from cleaners, anti-varnish components, lubricants, etc. Some of the stuff probably would still work - say the detergents, in a diluted form, are probably still good. Anti- varnish, maybe ok (maybe those over the counter cleaners can make up for this, but hell, they are mostly alcohol anyway). Modern gasine has additives to keep valves lubed, which makes up for lead. Will the reduction still be ok? I dunno, I'm no engine guru.


I guess for occational use this should be ok, but I wouldn't plan on running it everyday.

Kyle

Ahhhhh Toluene, one of the key ingredients in dynomite!!

My bro knows a guy who mixes Toluene for his Z28 and has been ever since he bought it. I'm not sure if that makes it ok or not... But I'd run it for races or those occasional friday\saturday nights but not every day.

You can add a gallon of toluene with each tank of fuel and be totally safe. More could probably be run, but since you don't know the precentage of chemicals at the pump I wouldn't.
Personally I'd just setup a water injection system for the street, distilled water is much cheaper, and works very well. Two people I know are running 24psi on 92 pumpgas using water injection, NO knock.

No matter what you add to pumpgas it's not going to outperform VP C16.

VP racing fuel... hmmmm.... the cocaine for my car (crack is for whores)

So what might be potential of combining the water injection with the toluene? BOOM?

There is toluene in the fuel you use already, no danger from mixing it with water.