Originally Posted by
Just Dave
Yeah, shit works. The thing is, alcohol makes everyone a good tuner too. You can run so much more boost and lead, and the motor just runs cool and makes power. I've seen cars so rich raw alcohol was dripping out of the exhaust, still making good power. It's so much more forgiving.
This is true. With alcohol you don't know you've pushed it too far until you see a rod laying on the floor. I've seen a few people run alcohol cars so rich it lifted the valve seats out of the head, bent rods, etc. So on one hand it's near impossible to detonate but very easy to pre-ignite, etc in the wrong hands