>Maggie Dew <wildebus@GMAIL.COM> wrote: It's almost Fryeday, so here goes. > >If this has been mentioned before--sorry, I missed it. I just heard a >discussion on the news this evening re BioPerformance Fuel - a pill you drop >in your gas tank for better mileage. > > Im sorry I dont have an answer for your question but I do have a >related question and that is Ethanol......can any be dropped in the >thank like many of the Brazilians are doing with their cars or is >that because they have some special adaptation? > > EL Tony You can just dump it in your tank and it'll run, but an engine really needs to be tuned to run on it, as its combustion characteristics differ somewhat from those of gasoline. It will also give considerbly lower performance. I once ran a Honda XL175 out of gas, and the only flammable liquids I could find were 2-propanol (acetone) and ethanol. So I poured some of each into the tank... it started fine and ran fine all the way to the gas station... the mix must've been a fluke. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR |
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