Save some money on fuel?

[jakewriter82]

A link I stumbled on, and then another I found after googling, says if used at the right ratio, Acetone, like paint thinner or nail polish, can considerably make your car more fuel efficient.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Acetone_as_a_Fuel_Additive

and here

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/322465/gas_saver_100_acetone_as_a_fuel_additive.html?cat=27

I'm about as illiterate on vehicles as they come, but has anyone ever heard of anything like this working?

It also says there's danger of damaging your fuel pump, or the rubber component inside your fuel valve, but there's more people on the first link saying it works pretty well for them.

 

[mike311gd]

Or you can go the vegetable oil, like Piebald: http://piebald.com/environmental.php.

They put a conversion system in the back of their van and drove around the country bumming the old oil from restaurants fryers. It ended up costing them about a dollar a tank, I believe.

 

[PeteyPirate]

Or you can go the vegetable oil, like Piebald: http://piebald.com/environmental.php.

They put a conversion system in the back of their van and drove around the country bumming the old oil from restaurants fryers. It ended up costing them about a dollar a tank, I believe.

It also smells like the back of a Burger King.

 

[93Devil]

Drive slower.

Be sure your tires are inflated properly.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Change your oil regularly.

Don't waste time on acetone as a gas additive. Acetone may tear up the rubber fittings and lines that make up your fuel system, which is why Vietnam has banned it as a fuel additive. The first entry on the Peswiki page with the hed Damages Fuel Injectors and Fuel Pumps should be enough to scare anybody off.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Or you can go the vegetable oil, like Piebald: http://piebald.com/environmental.php.

They put a conversion system in the back of their van and drove around the country bumming the old oil from restaurants fryers. It ended up costing them about a dollar a tank, I believe.

and you also void any warranty you may have on your engine or fuel system. So if something goes wrong, be ready to fix it yourself, or pay a garage big $$

 

[jakewriter82]

Or you can go the vegetable oil, like Piebald: http://piebald.com/environmental.php.

They put a conversion system in the back of their van and drove around the country bumming the old oil from restaurants fryers. It ended up costing them about a dollar a tank, I believe.

The funny thing about that is The governator drives around in a vegetable oil-burning hummer but found out that he owed a good amount of taxes on the oil it burns.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-vegoil6-2008may06,0,6562739.story

Schwarzenegger, who has said that the exhaust from his Hummer smells so much like French fries that his passengers get hunger pangs, was unaware that he was required to send Sacramento an 18-cent road tax for every gallon of kitchen oil he burned, according to spokesman Aaron McLear. After The Times raised the issue, McLear said the governor would pay the taxes he owed.

 

[deskslave]

I rode a few times with a friend who had converted her car to run on vegetable oil. Naturally, it smelled like french fries, but worse than that was that the air in the car just FELT greasy.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

None of the perceived advantage of running Acetone is worth the risks.