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Re: Octane Boosters - Methanol & MBTE

   After looking across the http://triumph.cs.utah.edu/sol/tech/octane_b.html
   octane booster page, I note that they are hostile to Methanol. Given what
   ...
   b) Has anyone ever seen a water-methanol dump kit (a la Nitrous) for
   automotive use? As I recall, in late WWII, these were used as a (brief)
   extreme boost for various German aero engines (I even saw references to
   engines with 2-stage turbos, a NOx dump _and_ water-methanol). Did they
   vanish due to the corrosive properties of methanol, or is just NOx a better
   solution?

Another concept I remember reading about is water injection -- cools
down the air/fuel mix . . .

Let the flame wars begin!

					-RDH