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northwoods 10-01-2008 06:10 AM

white gas
 
Gents:

Has anyone here tried running straight white gas? With the interest in fuel vaporization and experimenters like Smokey Unic (sp?) having gotten impressive mileage with vaporization setups, and the problems with modern gasoline having some hard-to-evaporate molecular chains, I thought this might be worth trying. Was pre-WW2 gasoline essentially white gas?

GasSavers_Erik 10-01-2008 06:15 AM

Good questions- how much more does white gas cost per gallon than regular gasoline?

dkjones96 10-01-2008 06:20 AM

Good old Naptha.

What about just running alcohol? It's cheaper.

White gas runs about $6 a gallon to $11 a gallon depending on your source while E85 can run in the $2-3 a gallon range.

GasSavers_GasUser 10-01-2008 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by dkjones96 (Post 120080)
What about just running alcohol? It's cheaper.
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How about "shine"?...............:D

Jay2TheRescue 10-01-2008 06:43 AM

Amoco Ultimate used to be white gas, and they advertised it as such (as recently as ~5 years ago). I don't know with all the new formulations if its still white though.

-Jay

Ford Man 10-01-2008 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by GasUser (Post 120084)
How about "shine"?...............:D

That's about as white as it gets, but run it in a car and waste it? I do know that pure grain alcohol will burn a really nice blue flame, but it's a little expensive to run in a car. I remember when Amoco Ultimate was white gas, but I'm not sure whether it still is or not. Isn't BP and Amoco the same thing now? I know around here every station that used to be Amoco is now BP. Amoco used to be owned by Standard Oil years ago.

northwoods 10-01-2008 07:48 AM

This question is more of an efficiency persuit than anything else. Cost-wise its much higher than regular gas, and for good reason. I think that white gas was distilled from petrolium.Then came hydrocarbon cracking that permitted about 80% of a barrel of oil to be converted into gasoline, but with a much less pure product as the result. Higher purity= better vaporization? Worth a try I think. Just don't want to damage an engine. Any idea what the octane rating of white gas is?

dkjones96 10-01-2008 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by northwoods (Post 120093)
Any idea what the octane rating of white gas is?

Coleman Fuel is the most common of white gas and is 50-55 octane. Only additive is a rust inhibitor.

GasSavers_TomO 10-01-2008 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by dkjones96 (Post 120094)
Coleman Fuel is the most common of white gas and is 50-55 octane. Only additive is a rust inhibitor.

Woah 50-55 octane gasoline, hello Knock City with most of today's gasoline engines compression ratios.

dkjones96 10-01-2008 09:04 AM

It's actually a great additive to the fuel if you aren't running close to knock all the time.

I could see a $6 gallon of it from Walmart working wonders for someone. I never hear my car knocking so maybe I should buy one and put a gallon of it into my gas tank on my next fill. Should get me from 86 octane down to about 83.5.


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