Naphtalen in your gas tank ? 30 % more mileage ?

[pg46]

Yeah Hi All-

Last year I ran test with acetone in my 91 octane fuel with a Honda motorcycle. I did not record any real fuel mileage improvement. I did record a 'slight increase' but it didn't warrant the purchase price of the acetone.
Last month I did 3 seperate test with mothballs in the 91 octane fuel on the same motorbike. I measured very carefully the fuel consumption in increments of CCs. I added the mothballs the first time and did the mileage test quickly without actually giving much time for the mothballs to dissolve.The next two tests I allowed many hours for it to disolve and actually recorded a 'reduction' in fuel economy. Yes, my mothballs are really napthalene. I first established my regular fuel economy by testing several times. Then I did 3 seperate runs with the mothballs over the same stretch of road at the same speeds. I drove 70 kms on each test run.

I really wish I did record a fuel economy  improvement but I did not unfortunately. I am in SE Asia and I have no idea what they have in the fuel here. 91 is the lowest octane I can buy.

Best Regards,

[TheOne]

its hard to guess but my guess with motorcycle they are less fuel compared to car, probbably to many napthalene was there, and you get a decrease, maybe you need to use like 1/4 or moth ball or something like that, i use 10 pill for 20 gallons, i see a little increase but not that much 0.5L/100km

with my jeep v8 4.7L, i can do 465 miles (750 km) on highway with 20 gallons, i dont know if its a lot since i changed to many stuff on my jeep, i did not see what cause the improvment

[Walter Hofmann]

Hi the one,
the jeep run is actually pretty good depending on the year and maintenance but to get 465 miles from 20 gallone what is 23.25 miles /gallone for a 4.7liter V8 is impressive. Did you try a city traffic only test?
The motorbike situation has probably to do with the high rpm of the engine and what kind of gasoline if you start allready with a 91 octane and they have eventually allready naphthalene in it then there whould not be much or nothing on improvement.
In the mean time I got some respond from fiends in germany who tested the naphthalene to and they had some increase not as much as here in the US but at least 30 to 40% with older model cars.
greetings
walt

[TheOne]

in the city i get less, near to 550 km / 350 miles, its hard to tell i do more highway then city, but city is near to this value, in highway i get 9.5/10 L /100km, in the city its more like 13/14L / 100km

i changed a lot of stuff on my jeep, that helped a lot