 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / November 2008Adding Acetone safe for car? Improves milage
I found douses of website claiming that adding Acetone to your gas will improve your millage. The only way to know for sure is to try it, but I want to make sure it is safe for my 2002 Saturn sl1. I wonder if it was premixed with my gas before poring in the gas tank, would it not eat through any rubber seals in the system? Any one have any experience trying Acetone for the vehicle? Please don't respond just for the safe of shooting down someone's idea, or your own speculation. Thanks. >I found douses of website claiming that adding Acetone to your gas >will improve your millage. The only way to know for sure is to try >it, but I want to make sure it is safe for my 2002 Saturn sl1. Acetone eats plastics. If you take a long look at a parts list for your fuel system, try an find all the different plastics in use including some fuel lines. Nylon does't seem to be easily affected but if I were you I'd get a small container of the stuff and test it on some differnt plastics. Then smear it out on the outside of all synthetics I could find (be prepared to destroy them). Be amazed at what melts. P > I found douses of website claiming that adding Acetone to your gas > will improve your millage. Acetone is cheap. If it actually improved mileage, the oil companies would be putting it in there already. Properly inflated tires and clean filters will improve your mileage. Acetone will remove your fingernail polish. If, you know, that is an issue.  SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. | If it actually improved mileage, the oil | companies would be putting it in there already. I disagree, oil companies want to sell more. Already 1 surfactant can incr torque ( even 20%, after 1yr use ) & decr noise ( 40% on diesel ), surely incr mpg, oil co.s are unlikely to want to add this into their petrol / diesel. | Properly inflated tires and clean filters will improve your | mileage. Most cars have design flaws, corecting them is 1 way to incr mpg. >| If it actually improved mileage, the oil > | companies would be putting it in there already. > I disagree, oil companies want to sell more. Already 1 surfactant > can incr torque ( even 20%, after 1yr use ) & decr noise ( 40% on > diesel ), surely incr mpg, oil co.s are unlikely to want to add this > into their petrol / diesel. Oil companies might object to adding acetone but I think this claim is not credible for the reasons stated above. I believe they know it is a worthless addition. Car manufacturers under pressure to increase fuel economy (marketing and regulatory) have tremendous incentive to increase fuel economy. If acetone did anything, anything at all (increase fuel economy by 0.1%), the car companies would demand it be added to fuel. If the oil companies refused, then the car companies would add acetone metering units and sell the stuff themselves. I have a couple of friends who have bought into this myth big time. In every case where I asked for records to prove the claim, it was obvious that they had nothing that approached credible evidence. Poor data gathering does no equal an actual improvement. People have been believing in the miracle fuel economy "improver" for as long as people have been building cars. The EPA has tested acetone and many other miracle fuel economy improvers and found almost all to be totally bogus. > | Properly inflated tires and clean filters will improve your > | mileage. > Most cars have design flaws, corecting them is 1 way to incr mpg. Most car definitely include design flaws, but the cheap crap sold as fixes is usually bogus. Acetone, magnets, swirl inducers, atomizers, etc., etc., etc. are just a few of the more common scams. Ed | car companies would demand it be added to fuel. Only if they own the oil companies. | car companies would add acetone metering units and sell the stuff | themselves. They don't produce petrolem products. | People have been | believing in the miracle fuel economy "improver" for as long as people | have been building cars. This surfactant I buy & use can work. I don't publicise this fact ( or the common design flaws I found & corrected ) because 5% of the drivers & bikers here in Msia are bastards ( esp 1 neigh bour with same 2 cars as mine ), I don't want them to benefit from my discoveries / effort, however much I like to decr CO2. | The EPA has tested acetone and many other | miracle fuel economy improvers and found almost all to be totally | bogus. I had 8 ( neodymium, very strong ) magnets fitted on my fuel line , & test driven for 5 minutes. No difference was felt. | swirl inducers, atomizers, | etc., etc., etc. are just a few of the more common scams. Swirler ( if well made ) in carburetor can cause finer petrol mist & incr torque ( as on BBC 's Tomorrow's World in 1984 ): I felt a small 1-2% extra torque in my test drive with *"Cyclone" ( from Korea, its 8 fins were too few to create more swirl ). My govnmnt studied * & found a tiny drop in CO / NO discharge. >Properly inflated tires and clean filters will improve your >mileage. You are so correct, but how far can one go with this? Should we check our tire pressure every mile and change the filters daily? This is about the same as the advice to save home heating fuel. 1. Turn down the thermostat. (I do this every time someone recommends it. Now every pipe in my house is frozen and I am in the hospital). 2. Insulate. (I do this everytime someone recommends it. Now I cant get in the door because the insulation has filled the entire house.). Yes, there are good tips, but they are very basic information that all of us should know by now, and yet the media keeps rubbing it in, while ignoring the larger picture. I'll inflate tires, change filters, turn down the thermostat, shut off lights, and insulate my home, but when is industry going to do their part? When are they going to make cars that get good mileage? Cars that run on alternate fuels, home heating that uses less energy, etc.....? > On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:55:07 -0800, Steve Daniels > <sdaniels@gorge.net> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > check > our tire pressure every mile and change the filters daily? Check tire pressure monthly. Replace filters at the manufacturer's recommended interval (no sooner). As long as you are close to the vehicle manufacturer's recommended tire pressure, the rolling resistance of radial tires varies very little. Air filter contamination has a very minor effect on the fuel economy of modern fuel injected engines (unless you just completely plug the filter up). If you really want to get the best fuel economy, drive slower, drive like you don't have brakes, empty out any extra weight, if the check engine light is on get the car fixed, maintain the car per the manufacturer's recommendations, don't use E10 fuel, buy low rolling resistance tires, make sure the fluids are the proper viscosity, get a car with a manual transmission and shift into higher gears as soon as possible, get the smallest lightest car you can stand, etc., etc., etc. Ed |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.