Has anybody heard about putting acetone additive in your gas improving gas mileage?

My dad did some research on it, and apparently he's been doing it for about a month now and has seen minor improvements.

He was getting 18.0 MPG on his 2001 Supercharged Bonneville (SSER)
Now he's at 19.4.

He also said that, because acetone helps to burn your gas more efficiently it helps reduce carbon build up.

Any thoughts/experiments people have conducted?

 

That's kind of interesting.

Id like to see what others have to say...

 

Yeah. He said it he actually feels like the car is a little more "peppy." lol He's been doing for about a month and hes saved 25 bucks. The formula is 3-4 oz of acetone per 10 gallons and if anybody has ever tried this or bought acetone, you know that acetone is like 3 bucks. He's not using like nail polish remover, he's using the pure acetone like the stuff you can get at home depot (people use it as paint thinner).

 

I'm kind of disappointed that nobody has anything to say on the subject.

 

i havent heard anything about it

 

any idea on what acetone does to rubber components? If it will eat your lines and shit up over time it isnt worth it.

 

Yea I wouldn't try it.

 

I've read about this. There is a site out there that preaches the acetone gospel and makes all sorts of funky claims, most of which are very outlandish. I've heard of a few people trying it with mixed results, but it doesn't seem like any of the people supporting it have provided really sound science on how it works.

I'll see if I can find more info on this and the sites I read before.

 

What I've researched has claimed that it is actually good for all your seals and shit due to the fact that it reduces carbon build up.

The way my research claims to reduce carbon build up is by completely burning all of the fuel, thus increasing gas mileage.

It doesn't eat away rubber. It eat's away clear plastics and stuff.

 

I read around and found that the theory is it "reduces surface tension of the fuel and vaporizes it better resulting in more complete fuel burn". The one truly good empirical test I found was a guy on a Saturn board who calculated his mileage exactly, knew what it should be, and maintained a constant conservative style of driving (some sort of fuel-efficiency nut who also bragged about getting 400,000 miles out of his rear brake pads...). He say absolutely no gain over a few thousand miles and a couple of months running various concentrations.

I didn't go much farther than that. In my opinion it's an old wive's tale and that any improvement is either in some sort of cleaning effect that could only really work once (and even this I doubt) or more likely a psychological effect, in that people are likely to drive more sensibly with the additive in the tank.