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Some of the race guys in our club use acetone to boost octane rating in their turbo cars. Seems to work fine. Never seen an engine suffer because of it. Its a lot cheaper than manufactured octane booster And be buggered if I can catch them!

But there is a risk in everything eh?

Cheers

Bov

yea i have been looking at acetone for a while too, i think they are right and it would be safe, becuse its only like 90mls to every 40lts, i mean there is more shit in fuel than that.... after reading that web site i think i might try it... f**k it its only an RB20 haha cheap!

Edited by meep

well i'm gonna give it a go. read the full site adn it seems to make sense :P. bought some fuel yesterday without acetone and will try acetone next tank. will also note down how many k's and it's response. anyone else want to be test dummies.?

would be good to get an overall concensus

nOOSE

i bought 1lt yesterday from k-mart $11, will try it soon, just doing a bit more reading.

it is one of the chemicals in nail polish remover.

i dont think it would damage anthing it's only 30mls to every 40lts, plus it is only a glass and metal cleaner... so... ill give it a shot.

Hmm I think I will give this a go, will head down to K-mart and put some in when I fill up next to see if it improves on economy. So you just add it like an octane booster? They say to use 2.5ml per Litre... so for my 55L that's like 140ml per tank.

Edited by Lithius

Read this post yesterday,

had some acetone where I work as a lab technician, prior to this done some reasearch and found a few sites with an emphasis on racing recom 5% by volume. Acetone 100ml/L (pure analytical grade) 1L added to 20 odd L of prem. Very happy, can't wait to leave work and get back in the line.

Is there an acetone craze going on...? I went to 5 different stores, and each had the label for acetone and a price but all were out of stock! at one place there was a little 500ml bottle and i picked it up and thought "narh there'll be a bigger one here somewhere" - the guy next to me swipes it and says "hope you weren't planning on buying that" then he giggled merrily to himself and proceeded to the checkout.

Managed to get the last one available at bunnings although I had to settle for a 4L tin for $28.99

my excel had a bit under 1/4 tank and i put 355ml (a beer bottle) of acetone in. drove around stop start, left to right. temp stayed normal, no miss, no post ignition. everything stayed the same, it might have gone a little bit better mid range, but cant swear on that, anyway it done no damage at all and ill be interested to see if any of you guys get good results.

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