Acetone in your gas!!!

[cremmenga]

Well being a psych. major!! no we need some double blind tests! or just blind test done. Have your wife or how ever ok not your wife maybe a buddy either go out and add it to your car or dont' add it and don't let him tell you if he did either way untill it is empty and that way you won't know and maybe that will help with the "experiment".

[TomoHawk]

Dude, I think you are more like a major psych-o

[e_racer1999]

Dude, I think you are more like a major psych-o

i'm gonna try it.

[cremmenga]

i'm gonna try it.

your going to try the blind test or just the test??

[e_racer1999]

just the test. my fiancee does the same commute every day and her car is pretty reliable.

[cremmenga]

let me know how it turns out!! i am curious. I am a skeptic, and I did bull the bullshit card right away because I too thought it was just cleaning out your engine. But if it worked for the guy where my dad works, and it worked for a few of us here and if it works for you?? who knows. I haven't seen anyone of the other guys try it and come on and say it didnt' work. Like i said let me know!!! thanks

[Fun_in_my_z]

zhes going to load her car up with it and have a ex

[ezzzzzzz]

For what it's worth, I tried it in my Chevy 4.3 motivated Land Rover on a trip from Virginia to Pa going a distance of over 600 miles. I know they state you need to use the same gas from the same station. How unrealistic is that though? I had no negative effects nor any improvement in mileage either. Maybe my fuelie was already operating at peak performance? Maybe only carb'd engine benefit? Who knows...

[BillD]

My 2 cents: I do biostatistics for (medical) clinical trials and have been interested in some of the methodological issues raised in this thread. The blind trial methodology is a good one for reducing the placebo effect of the additive. I would suggest going one step further. In determining if a change in mileage is statistically significant or simply due to chance variation in mileage, a crucial issue is the number of samples (tanks of gas) used in the analysis. I reviewed my gas mileage statistics to get an idea of the normal tank to tank mpg spread and found that the standard deviation was about 6% of my average mpg. Assuming that most people have that kind of spread and doing some quick calculations, I determined that in order to be sensitive to a minimum mpg change of 10% with sufficient statistical power, you'll need a total sample size of 14 requiring you to go through 7 tanks of untreated gas and 7 tanks of treated gas. Basically, the more samples (tanks of gas) you use to compute average mpg with and without the additive, the less impact specific variables unrelated to the additive will have on the results and the more sensitive the analysis will be.

[e_racer1999]

^^AHHHH!! i'm helping my fiancee with her statistics (sadistics) class right now..... DAMN YOU!!!!!

[sblake01]

The one thing that worries me about using Acetone as a fuel additive is the warning on the can. "IMPORTANT: Acetone may soften or damage plastics, synthetics, and many other finishes." Since we're dealing with fuel lines and fuel system components that may fall into those catagories shouldn't that be of concern?

[montoya_fan01]

Bingo!!!!!