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Old 05-30-2007, 04:58 PM
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Question Acetone in your gas?

Has anybody heard the one about adding 1oz. of acetone to every 5 gallons of gas in your tank and your mpg will increase? MM
 
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Old 05-30-2007, 07:39 PM
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if it really increased mileage don't you think the gas would already have acetone in it? don't do it.
 
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Old 05-30-2007, 08:06 PM
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Yeah, thats a BAD idea...

Acetone, while flammable, is not a good thing to put into your engine or your gas tank. Cars arent designed for it, and you'd probably make your engine go kaput...

Which, when you think about it would get you great gas mileage, because you wont have anything that will use up gas!
 
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Old 05-30-2007, 08:13 PM
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only thing i have heard about doing that is to increase octane, but i belive it was put to bed as crap.
 
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yea, if it was good for gas mileage it would be added already.
 
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Old 05-31-2007, 04:39 PM
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Tried it about a year ago....no difference in fuel mileage.
 
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Old 05-31-2007, 08:55 PM
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didn't mythbusters test this wacky idea?
 
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:03 PM
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The ONLY way to increase octane is to add MMT. MMT is found is some of the octane boost roducts.
 
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Old 06-01-2007, 10:30 AM
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Sounds gay...
 
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