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Old 08-23-2011, 09:32 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by larrybuck View Post
It would be nice if some of us regular people could figure out how to heat up the fuel to NEAR flashpoint with out blowing ourselves up!

You've probably heard about micro screening used in older carb applications to break up fuel droplets, and stretch the fuel further that way.

Has anyone tried a mesh approach w fuel injection??? Are the injectors too pre determined engineer wise to function when semi-crude differences are introduced to established SYSTEMS????
A few years ago I read about a guy that had an aftermarket fuel heater system installed in his all highway driven H3 and saw no result.

Back around 2006 I discovered little plastic turblance inducers found after the tips of injectors used on at least some GM fuel injected engines (made well before 2006), they may have sparyed through a plastic mesh, I do not fully recall. Injector tip accessories seem to have fallen out of favor in more recent years.

The best thing I found you can do to Gasoline to increase its combustion charistics is to increase its volitility (at least with a carb). I tested this between winter 2007 to summer 2008 by buying "winter fuel" and keeping it in a sealed metal barrel (not the standard 55 gallon, much smaller). I saved the fuel till summer time and used it to fill up 2 tanks, each tank picked up an unmistakable 2mpg and my engine seemed much happier running off high volitility gas in warm weather.
The oil companies/government adujsts volititaly by controling butane content.
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