RE: High Octane Gas

["Sheffield Corey" <SHEF@omdc.gso.uri.edu>]

The Grubster wrote:
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>There is a gas station near me that say they have racin fuel: 104 octane. Is
>this leaded or unleaded? Can I run it in a normal car? Sounds cool.  

	Don't quote me, and don't try this: I'm not a mechanical engineer. But
I seem to remember from somewhere in my checkered past that adding camphor
flakes or moth balls to gasoline will really up its octane rating(and who knows
what else!!) Too much and you can melt the fins off an air cooled motorcycle,
but it will run like a bat outta hell until it melts down. If you're around a
Uni. with a mechanical engineering dept. they usually have a single cylinder
test engine for testing crazy ideas like this...or at least a crazy Prof. who
can say: "BTDT!". Something about pentane and/or heptane... I'm not a chemist
either:-)

Just a crazy thought.

Shef

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