jmoore1225

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I'll have Blake personally deliver it....

jmoore1225

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It doesn't seem to dry out our gaskets as much as the ethanols, isopropanols or acetones we run. FWI

articfriends

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Unles you can buy it for less than the cost of race fuel there is absolutley no reason to buy it, around here we can buy 110/112 octane at the pump for 6.50 a gallon or so (and tolulene is the main ingredient), tolulene is 114 R+M/2 and the best price I can find is over 500$ for 55 gallons, now if you could find it bulk for 1/2 that it would be a different story.
As far as octane boosters go, I have always believd that 16 0z of any petroleum distillate even if it was 120 octane would be like feeding a tick tac to a whale, NOW after seeing some actual research on the stuff I am convinced that I was WRONG and stand corrected. There are actually some moden octane boosters out there that work, not by adding a few ounces of 120 octane to a given amount of gas but by adding a dose of MMT or actual lead. The turbo snow mobile guys have found they can run 2-3 psi more boost than they could on pump 93 mixed with good octane booster like Lucas. A 15 oz bottle of Lucas wil turn 10 gallons of 93 into 10 gallons of 96.6 octane at 6.50 a bottle, comes out to only 65cents per gallon, Smitty
http://volvospeed.com/Review/misc_pe...e_booster.html

offshorexcursion

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Yes there is a difference between octane points and octane numbers. Misleading isnt it.

10 points to one number

Believe NOS brand has a racing octane booster increases 60 points or 6 numbers

shootitup

Not exactly comment for toluene..

What about e85, octane rating goes over 100.
Also it cools down engine many other good points.
Its not so bad for fuel lines etc. like methanol and
like many think.

Succesfull use in dragrace raceone85.com

articfriends

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Also, keep in mind that having Tolulene or even race gas stored inside a building or handled wrong is very dangerous. I was trying to find a source for 55 gallon drun=ms of it and stumbled acrossed a couple osha reports, one the worker un-corked a 55 gallon drum, had a grounding strap to drum (which most of would never bother to do) and got ready to start transferring it and static electrcity set it off and burned him to death, one of many reports I found, gave me a new respect for handling this kind of stuff, Smitty
http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/acciden...l?id=201112042

articfriends

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Has to be mixed 60-1 to raise octane 4 true points, at 15$ a 12 oz bottle that comes out to 2.50 a gallon to treat gas/(1.25 a oz) enough to get 4 octane points, most expensive octane booster out there and not any better than the lucas that is only 43 cents a oz, at 50-1 the llucas wiill boost octane 5 points for 1.10 per gallon, Smitty
http://volvospeed.com/Review/misc_pe...e_booster.html

BLUEMAGIC

i HAVE USED LUCAS OCTAINE BOOST THIS PAST SEASON AND STOPPED USING IT BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN I THOUGHT IT WAS POINTLESS(LIKE FEEDING A TIC TAC TO A WHALE)
SO YOU ARE SAYING LUCAS WILL INFACT BOOST OCTAINE ENOUGH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?(SAY A COUPLE NUMBERS) I USE 91 OCTAINE (NON ETHONAL) AND EITHER USE C-12 OR LUCAS TO INCREASE MY OCTANE RATING TO 96 IN A 100 GALLON TANK. DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THE LUCAS TO BE ABLE TO INCREASE OCTAINE BY NUMBERS AND NOT POINTS?

wannabe

If you are going to work with Toluene you should use a respirator with VOC filters. The stuff is nasty, and I would only use it in fuel systems set up for ethanol, etc. It can disolve a lot of things like paint and old varnish in fuel systems. It is carcinogenic also. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0619.html



Wannabe

articfriends

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Did you follow the link I put on that post to support my statement? If not here it is:
http://volvospeed.com/Review/misc_pe...e_booster.html
From the testing on that link they have shown that at oonly a 100-1 ratio it will raise your octane 3.5 actual points, Smitty