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Posted by: JTT
Acetone added to your fuel?
I remember Rich talking briefly about using acetone in fuel in the distant past, but this seems to be taking it to a new level. Is there anything to this, or is it yet more total bunk?
Posted by: Rich Rohrich
Bunk with a capital UNK 
Posted by: QKENUF4U
depends on what you want it to do. i know people that have seen better milage while others have seen no difference.
Posted by: Rich Rohrich
I've used acetone in the past mostly as a starting and warm-up aid when it was cold out (it gets down to -20 F during ice races at times) because I knew it would vaporize better than many of the existing race fuels available back then and it was easy to find in quantity at the local paint store. It's safer than ether and reasonably effective, but I realize it's far from an optimum solution. When I kept the percentage low ( < 8%) it didn't screw up the fuel curve too terribly.
I'll be the first to admit it was a pretty weak approach and not one I would necessarily recommend to anyone. When you are trying to find a solution to a problem you tend to use what's readily available, and have I mentioned lately that I've had a lot more failure than success in searching for the answers? 
What I do know for sure is there is no magic in acetone. Expecting mileage to change dramatically in a gasoline powered vehicle just by adding some small percentage of acetone is just a pipe dream of the chemistry impaired
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