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What's with the pure acetone? Anyone know if there is validity and/or consequences of doing that? What kind of byproducts would be made from that? Anyone know?

 

Seems like we had this discussion once befor. There was quite a lot of talk, but nobody wanted to test it out.

I'm guessing the car in the video (Acura TL ?) should have been getting higher than 17mpg anyway. Put in new plugs and wires, a clean air filter, basicly a tune up. Adding acetone, a good solvent, may have cleaned the injectors and helped the car to get the mileage it should have been getting to start with...

Acetone may also up the octane a little. It may also act as an oxygenator in the fule.

Try it and let us know..

 

Gas mileage smas pilage. I bought a sports car to have fun in, not worry about MPG.

 

Well 2 ounces in our 13 gallon gas tank would be recommended and that's 0.12% of acetone. Hardly something that would ruin seals and gaskets. The concept is that the acetone makes the O2 sensor think the car is running rich so the computer leans out a bit.
How that would really affect us...I don't know. I know we run rich anyway so it might help by leveling us back out but how it would perform when you hit VTEC is a whole new situation.
That being said, I would put it in my jeep but not in the s2000.

 

Was big talk about this on the Rx7club years ago. It ups the octane rating, but it can dry out your rubber hoses and seals not something I would run and the kind of acetone that you would want is Toulene (not sure about the spelling)

 

Buy an "Insight"...

 

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Alright alright. I'm not putting it in my car, I just wanted to know the mchanism of action. Acteone=higher octane + dried out hoses.

 

take a small amount of acetone and spill it on a clean hard surface.
when it evaporates (few seconds), look at the residue it leaves behind.
then decide if you want that residue floating around in your gas tank, fuel lines, injectors, engine....

anyone else noticed he had a cat locked inside his trunk?