In theory, this seems plausible, kerosene is a clean combustionable fuel, aka heating oil. So buy the 87 octane gas and advance your distributor til you hear engine ping/ knock. Now add enough kerosene to your gas tank til your knock/ping stops. This will solidify the kerosene as an octane booster. You get to run on the inexpensive stuff and still have the benefits of 110 octane...that is, if you can figure the amount you need to add to your gas. Any thoughts out there? I might start my own carburator company/buy out the old TheroQuad patent and build it/ jet it for this IDEA
Add kerosene to your gas to stave off detonation & advance your timing now for more ponys!?!?
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Try it and tell us how it works!
You ever put diesel in your lawn mower? Any amount makes it run like dog crap!
Deltatech
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It'll reduce the octane rating since Kerosene only has an Octane rating of 13.5, and it only has linear Hydrocarbons, use Toluene and xylene instead.
Professor Fate
Push the button, Max...
Kerosene is not heating oil- heating oil is diesel without the road tax and maybe some different additive packages. If you must equate kerosene to something, it's closer to some grades of jet fuel.
The whole concept reminds me of the days when octane first went down the toilet and people were adding 2 cycle oil to their tanks to prevent detonation- worked like sh** then, and I don't see a lot of difference now; except the gas is even cr*ppier nowadays.
The whole concept reminds me of the days when octane first went down the toilet and people were adding 2 cycle oil to their tanks to prevent detonation- worked like sh** then, and I don't see a lot of difference now; except the gas is even cr*ppier nowadays.
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Toluene is toxic stuff!
Be very careful with this stuff.
Be very careful with this stuff.
My bad, I used to get warm in my old house with kerosene heater...clean burning, guess heating oil is poisoness compared to kerosene. Is someone gonna get their old beater and test the kerosene/octane booster theory? Let us know!
I m thinking build your engine for high compression. And use kerosene instead of diesel...thoughts?
It smells thesame
Yeah, go for it.
What's the OCTANE rating of Diesel?
I put Everclear in my mower ... Holy chit! I thought the blade was gonna fly off! Long story..lolTry it and tell us how it works!
mopar head
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kerosene heaters cause drain bamage, now we know 
I saw you can put coca-cola in your gas and it gives you 39 mpg.
Oh wait that was one of those Facebook videos.
Never mind!
IMHO if it really worked wouldn't the car manufacturers be doing it, like diesel exhost fluid, standard on all kinds of diesels now, wasn't a thing 30 years ago
Oh wait that was one of those Facebook videos.
Never mind!
IMHO if it really worked wouldn't the car manufacturers be doing it, like diesel exhost fluid, standard on all kinds of diesels now, wasn't a thing 30 years ago
very low.
Your not wrong! Love those old 2 stroke diesels. Guess I will just have to use 'RACEGAS' fuel concentrate additive if I want good Octane rating. Good stuff
Guess we stay with namebrand 'RACEGAS octane booster.
Professor Fate
Push the button, Max...
mygasser
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i ran a uk 70's ford cortina on a mix of cheap cellulose gun wash thinners and kerosene (paraffin here), it didn't want to start from cold on a 50/50 mix but 2 parts thinner to 1 part kerosene and it was just fine. it costed out at about 1/3 the price of gasoline so a good saving. smelt funny out the tailpipe too, lol.
neil.
neil.
didnt you mean aviation gas with lead and high octane?
Just get some Condensate. Or run alcohol. Kim
Kerosene costs four or five times more per gallon than diesel fuel so why would you want to run kerosene. Years ago I had a old John Deere tractor that you would start on gasoline and get it all warmed up and then you would flip a lever and it would switch it over to kerosene. But you had to get the motor warmed up first. Then when it came to shutting it off you switched it back to gas and ran the kerosene out of the carburetor and then shut it off. That's back when kerosene was cheap.
67Dart273
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Actually those old girls did not exactly use kerosene. They used something called "distillate" which as I understand, was in that zone around the kero/ diesel area of the refinery. I've always figured it was a bit lighter than kero. We had a '28 Farmall "Regular" that was designed for that stuff. We always just used gasoline. For a short time Dad had an old Case he resurrected that used the same deal, and My Gramps had a Lindeman Deere crawler that was set up that way
Yes sir , thanks for correcting me on my fuel choice. Let's just call it a brain fart on my part. I probaby need to delete this thread...you guys have taught me a lot. Anything to do with fuel octane, We can just stick with what works already. "RACEGAS" fuel concentrate additive from Summit...I concede LOL
And don't bring up the pig farmers source...whooping that methonol sure gets me down the 1/4 mile.
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