Moss Motors, Ltd

I've been doing some reading up on adding acetone to fuel. It can improve mileage, reduce emissions and clean the fuel system. Has anybody had any practical experience?

 Thoughts and opinions?

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Toledo Man

1983 Triumph Accliam HL
1977 Triumph Dolomite 1300TC
1983 Triumph Acclaim CD Triomatic
1972 Triumph Dolomite 1850 auto

I have done testing on all engine additives . Acetone is not cheap and dose little to help .a Mix of Naptha, 70% Acetone 5%Stoddard solvent 5% Ether 5% Xyline 5% Toluline (found in laqure paint thiner) 5%  and the rest a mix of Pure grain AL and zinc dust at Nano micron size .should do something ! The Nano Micron Zinc will work almost as a stand alone item but its hard to buy Thanks to the Governments home land defence strom troopers that really don't protect anyone other than the Government . A few other heavy metals will combust at low temps including the tops of your pistons and your valve seats , Swan coating will stop that and its cheaper and more reliable than mechine working the heads for hardned valve seats .If hardned valve seats are not done just right they will loosen up and fall down scraping out your engine BTSTDI . Low temp metal burning should be done with Nano size particals mot Mesh size ,particals must be smaller than 3 microns ! and Zinc that dose not burn up will get into the oil and thats good . Zinc oxcide  ,found in ZDDP its the only oil additive I would even try . Also to much of a good thing can be BAD !

Lots of exotic chemicals and metals will do some nifty things for power. Many of them are also carcenogenic. No bloody thanks. And if you don't care about yourself, think about others as well as the environment that those pesky "storm troopers" have the nerve to think should be healthy for us. Lastly, your rubber fuel lines and many carburetter parts will turn to jelly with most of this stuff. Just the alchohol in modern pump fuel has led us to only use hose specified for fuel injection.

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Motorbill
From Lola to Land Rover, If it's British and has wheels, it's likely I've bloodied me knuckles thereupon

I used to work for a nanotech company, and know a little of that area of science. One area of business was a fuel catalyst, basically a nanoparticle, far less than 1 micron in size of a component used in the manufacture of catalytic converters. It is notoriously difficult, even with the applience of scientific methods, to determine fuel efficiency benefits and its fair to say this caused the company a number of problems in determining the products true benefits. - You might understand that I have to be careful about what I say here....

I wouldn't want to be within 3 metres of nano powdered zinc metal without a 2000°F fire suit, in case it suddenly decided to convert to the oxide... and that goes for several other metals.

As for acetone, as Bill commented, it is a very powerful polar solvent, and I'd not like to have it eating away at the seals and lines in the car....

Think I'll stick with whats available from the pump, even though that is far from ideal these days.

Ed

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I want my MGB

I've done fuel mixes to pass calif.emi certs. then had complete fuel system failure. If your hands and nose don't like it your fuel system don't like it. Where did ol' ethel go, the good yellow fuel. That was fuel.