Will anyone dare try this?

[Maryland Hunter]

Not something I'd be willing to test out, but it's an interesting article: http://pesn.com/2005/03/17/6900069_Acetone/


MH

[buzzkillwill]

Yeah..

That was floating aroud here a few months back. No one was brave enough to try...

[Maryland Hunter]

I saw it on another forum, non-auto, and no one there was willing either.
MH

[ckgdrums]

Wouldn't ethanol do the same thing? Something like E10 gasoline?

[wrenrj1]

I'm behind you all the way...Give it a try...

[rjspitz]

Never heard of using acetone, but I've heard several times about toluene in high compressions engines.

[P's Titan]

that is just crazy.. i wouldn't try but I have a friend who would so I am going to print out instructions and see if he'll do it.

[Clancy]

Someone here claims to have tried it. It starts on about page 2 of this thread:

Who here is daring??

Frankly, I've always thought it was a steeping pile of BS...

[PHOEBISIS]

There might be a tiny bit of truth is the article,but if his Chemistry is as good as his math,I wouldn't try it.
He says add 1/3000 to 1 part/5000 acetone to gas,then he says this is just a few ounces in 10 gallons.BS!
1 gallon is 128 ounces-10 gallons=1280 gallons.So one ounces in 10 gallons would be about 4 times more than 1/5000.The real amount to ad would be about 1/3 ounce to 10 gallons(10 CC's or 2 teaspoons)say 1 ounce in a full 28 gallon tank.
This tiny amount of acetone would hurt anything,but it sure as hell wouldn't give you a 15-35% improvement in mpg;that is absurd.Charlie
PS If I mis read this,or F uped this arithmetic-DUH!
PPS and the car companies have missed this obvious(15-30% improvement) because??Don't tell me it is because the oil companies are greedy(no kidding).The car companies would install an acetone injector if it really worked-bypass the oil companies.Heck, a one gallon tank would be good for 4000 gallons of gas-60,000 miles!!
If something seems too good to be true.....!Besides,I wouldn't be surprised to find out there is a tiny amount of acetone in gasoline already.

[SupraTitan]

So what that say's is that the acetone releaves the surface tension of gasoline. So in effect it thins it out, like paint thinner mixed into paint. Problem is that it would seem that it messes with the A/F ratio, the engine's 02 sensors should compensate by richening the mixture, in turn negating any positive effect. I guess it would work on a carb or mech. fuel injection system, but would do so by leaning the fuel mixture out, samething could be accomplished by running a smaller main jet. Maybe i'm missing something. Interesting though.

[Batman229]

you guys are smart

[jdl75]

http://pesn.com/2005/03/17/6900069_Acetone/

This guy is on crack. His last statements are the key - warm air over cold air? Smooth flow over turbulent? I don't think so.

Cold air is denser air, and contains more mols of oxygen atoms per liter of air. More O2 means more thourough combustion. Better combustion means better mileage AND more power.

Turbulent air generally results in turbulent fuel / air mixture, which I have to believe is what he is talking about. Why did 4-valve engines have less low end tourque, and therefore items like variable valve timing was introduced? 4-valves per cylinder allows an engine to breath at higher RPM's. At low RPM's though, you get laminar flow, which produces less vaporization of the fuel molecules, which hampers power and efficiency. This is Bernoulis (I can't spell, I'm an engineer!) principle in practical application.

If Acetone is doing anything, it's contributing an oxygen atom to the fuel mixture - the double bond is more easily broken, and the oxygen atom is available in the vaporized mixture for combustion. It's the same principle at Nitrous. Now, I'm not saying Acetone is giving you a Nitrous-size performance boost, because it won't, but that's the theory in the chemistry.