About 6 months ago I was reading this thing with my dad about people adding 2onces of 100% acetone to like everyother tank of gas. It said it helps the gasses vaporize and burn better or something along those lines! I thought there is no way in hell I'm putting that in my car, but it turns out I talked to my dad today on the phone and the guys he works with have been trying it on there old beaters. One guy has a geo metro, and said in just the first tank of gas his mileage went from 28mpg to 37mpg. and the rest of the guys said they had similar results. I'm not saying you should all do this, i'm not going to but just thought it was interesting and wanted to pass it on.

I pretty certain that the Acetone industry is owned by the evil Haliburton company.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

http://www.lubedev.com/smartgas/ Louis LaPointe knows, just attended class, now for tommorow,s test.

gas just hit $1.25/L here thats 4.26/Gal USD USG.

yikes!!

Id try acetone, but I turned in my parking pass and just bike to work now.

I recently saw an episode of Mythbusters where they tested acetone in gas and their results show that it actually decreased gas mileage.

Got to love Mythbusters

Got to love Mythbusters

They did show that with enough high explosives you could just about vaporize a full sized semi. :classic:

It won't decrease mileage in the amount referred to earlier. It won't have a measurable effect at all.

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Wow, having read all of this, I can reach only one conclusion; it's getting deep. My left arm is fully extended above my head upon reaching this point in this thread. I'm trying to save my watch. But really, when it comes to cars+engine size+driving habits+all the other variables, it is what it is. If your car is rated at 24MPG, that's what it is. To sell a car that's paid for but gets 17MPG to buy a new car that gets 34MPG, along with a $400+ car payments doesn't make any sense either.:stupid: My daily driver is a 2002 Forester rated at 27MPG Hwy. If I get 25.5MPG, I'm grateful. Here's what I know works for me:

1. Tire pressure inflated to max rating for the tire.

2. K&N air filter.

3. No hot rodding. (no smart remarks about my Subaru)

4. Use cruise control when possible.

5. fresh spark plugs every 10K miles.

6. Mobile 1 every 5K miles.

Now you guys play nice and for Pete's sake, don't put mothballs in your gas tank.:lick:

They did show that with enough high explosives you could just about vaporize a full sized semi. :classic:

I only remember them blowing up the cement mixer that way but I haven't been watching it lately.

Here's a site that lists all of the results:

http://mythbustersresults.com/

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/acetone.asp

I really like snopes, but that was the worst effort at proving something false I've seen in a while. The acetone thing is obviously BS, but if they had access to a properly conducted test as they stated, they should have cited it and the results. Then they claim that acetone is a solvent and can damage the rubber components of the fuel system. In the proposed quantity??? I don't think so. I like the bit at the end though, that warns you that paint thinner can damage your paint. Gee, thanks for the warning. I checked, and snopes has no articles about octane booster, which is made from Xylene and Tolulene, which are... you guessed it... solvents and paint thinners.

Yes I see that this requires more impartial testing that some mentally challenged "nay sayers" (not saying I agree or disagree) are not willing to try & would rather codemn all those who do from the vantage point of thier arm chairs. () good analysis over time should reveal any merits of this acetone use then we can thank all those for sharing the findings of thier hard work.

To the nay sayer I say thanks for keeping things honest.

To the acetone tryers - don't get it on your paint.

stay kewl

Zsters