Improve your Milage with Acetone Mix

[Pirate88179]

Stefan:

I use 1 oz of acetone/10 gal of gasoline in my surveillance van.  (It has over 210,000 miles on it)  My overall (highway and city) mileage went up from 17 to 23 mpg!  Now, I have read both good and bad about doing this.  Some say it eats the rubber in the fuel pump and other such stuff.  My vehicle is a 1995 Mercury Villager V-6 with fuel injection.  If the mileage did not improve, I would still use it as the idle was a little rough for a while and they said I needed to replace my O2 sensors (2 of them at $80 each!!!) but after just one tank of this mixture (1oz/10 gal) the idle smoothed out and it no longer pings on regular gasoline.  I was running mid grade and high grade due to the carbon build up on the heads which raised the static compression ratio.  Now, it runs just fine on regular gas.  I admit I don't add it to every tank but, when I do...everything seems to get better.

I read online that the EPA (here in the US) raised the vapor pressure standards for fuel.  they explained that this simply means the gasonline will not evaporate as fast so as not to pollute the air while refueling.  Wow!  I mean, how much fumes escape when refueling?  So, when they did this, the gas not only does not evaporate as fast, it does not mix with the air as fast (as per definition) and therefore you don't get as good a burn with it in the combustion chamber.  So, to save a little air pollution (very little) at the pump, they degrade our gas so we get worse mileage which greatly raises the air pollution!   Anyway, this is what I read and it may or may not be correct but it makes good sense to me.  If nothing else, it cleaned the carbon off of my heads and lowered my static compression ratio so I can run regular gas all the time.  plus, I get the added 6 mpg on my combined highway and city driving!  It has to be 100% pure acetone, no additives and this is not so easy to find over here.

Bill

[Sprocket]

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In my quest for better fuel effeciency, I also stuck these plugs in a Toyota but after more than a year I am pretty confident that they have had little to no effect.   I have also tried acetone which also had no effect.  However I later realised the stuff I used wasn't 'pure' as it contained benzine, so the jury is still out on that one.  Finally, I invested in an oil additive called Cermax, having read wonderful things about it - http://www.detailshere.com/cermax.htm - again, none of the suggested improvements materialised.  Worse, the 2'nd bottle of the 2-dose treatment turned out to have 'jellified' before I had a chance to use it (after a 4000 mile oil-change) so I didn't even have the satisifaction of at least trying it fully!

So, the search continues...