Gas Mileage (again)...

[kodiak]

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Salt water power! Time to start tinkering with your microwave oven.

[mdwyer]

...as soon as I finish my generator that runs on the BS spewed by the Internet, I'll have all our energy problems solved...

[JHarris1385]

Im not saying it is going to work or it is not going to work. I am just going to test it out with my scangauge over the next four tanks of gas and see what happens. If it does not work I am only out about $4.99 for the quart of acetone that will only missing 16oz of liquid or so.

Toluene in itself is a different story.

This is a nice site as well.
http://lubecontrol.com/fuel.htm

[Navigator]

I'm not 100% sure of the impacts on the hoses and fittings, emmisions equipment, etc... with regards to modified fuel or a fuel substitute, but I am also interested in someone going off the OPEC fuel grid and manufacturing their own back yard Ethanol. Not feasable for an urban dweller like myself, but somebody with enough land to hide a still and make their own "fuel" ethanol to run their VX. Just a thought.

Please post your findings, I am intersted in the long term impacts of your test.

[blacksambo]

Hey. I've said this before try Lucas gas treatment, it works. My wife and each drive a VX and routinely get 40-50 more miles per tank with the stuff.

[mdwyer]

Not feasable for an urban dweller like myself, but somebody with enough land to hide a still and make their own "fuel" ethanol to run their VX. Just a thought.

I don't think the VX can run on ethanol. For that matter, I'm not even sure if it can run on E85. Not without eating itself, at least.

Still, I think if you're serious about growing your own fuel, ethanol is NOT the way to go. I'd be looking for a diesel and run that thing on soybean oil or something. If I understand correctly, many oils burn directly in a diesel engine -- you don't even have to convert it to biodiesel.

[JHarris1385]

So ok....I got anxious and added 2oz to my half way tank that had 149 miles on it. I typically get about 280 per fill up of roughly 19.5-20 gallons or 14.4-15.4 mpg. I am not going to use this instance unless I pull about 300-330 out of this tank. That would equal the approx 10 gallons left in the tank adding an additional 20-30% (2 to 4) miles per gallon. I will keep you posted. Thus far I have not heard anything abnormal out of my engine bay and I drove approx 40miles today in my commute and still have the drive home to accomplish.

[VehiGAZ]

The VX will definitely not run on on E85. That's something fairly new. I read in Car & Driver that Ford & GM are engineering their new engines as "flex fuel" E85 engines because it gives them a nice little cheat around the CAFE standards.

Btw, E85 is a special fuel mix of 85% ethanol and 15% gas, not at all the same as the oxygenated-with-10%-ethanol gas sold around the country these days.

[-wadestock-]

has no ethanol, I use that exclusively
I get about 19mpg max with my VX
I have a thorough and real report that most cars get about 3% extra mpg using high test

[VehiGAZ]

The fuel company does not decide whether to add ethanol to their gas, your state does, and now the federal gov't is getting into the act, too. It's a mandate, even in the Jers'. Be happy that you get some of the cheapest gas in the country and someone else pumps it for you (even if it drags out the process...).