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Tytus Gerrish 03-12-2003 10:58
MothBall Octane booster
 
i heard that you can put some naphthalene (C10H8) mothballs into your gastank and prevent Pre-compresson ingnition in High-displacement engines. and increace preformance.
Has anyone tried this before? does it work? is it safe?

KyleGilbert45 03-12-2003 12:58
Re: MothBall Octane booster
 
Good Answer: http://www.venturers.org/NextGenTech.../Gasoline.html

Or.......

http://www.forwardlook.net/mail-archive/msg04636.html

http://hotrodders.com/showthread.php...ight=Mothballs

http://www.100megsfree4.com/dictionary/car-dicm.htm

mothball: A substance that was used to increase the octane rating in gasoline. It had a marginal effect in increasing octane.

Looks like a few people believe it, as for me i dont know that i'd try.

Wetzel 04-12-2003 02:08
Re: MothBall Octane booster
 
From what I remember of my chemisty, diffrent lenght hydro-carbon chains burn diffrently. Diffrent ignition temperture as well as burn temp. So if mothballs are indeed naphthalene (C10H8), then it might well burn diffrent then gas. Also, mothballs are solid, arn't they?

But if you have pre-compression ignition, you have other problems you should look into. Like checking that you havn't advanced the timing to far, or if it is just not in time.

Personaly, I'm not sticking mothballs in my gas tank.

Wetzel

Matt Attallah 04-12-2003 08:45
Re: MothBall Octane booster
 
Woh - this is totaly new to me.

I've never heard of this before...Mothballs?! Man - I wouldn't want that touching my gas tank. There may be the naphthalene in it - but what else accompanies it? I realise that the other insert ingredents may be small and minute - but that can put a fuel system in jepardy really quick. I'll never do it - and I strongly don't recommend you doing it. If you really need the higher octane - just buy plus, premium or Super-Blue (drools) and some others have 100 octane fuels. Especally when you are running that type of engine. Or (I don't like using additives) just buy some of that Octane Booster stuff. I'll never touch that stuff - but other people sware by that.

Clark Gilbert 04-12-2003 09:36
Re: MothBall Octane booster
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt Attallah
Woh - this is totaly new to me.

I've never heard of this before...Mothballs?! Man - I wouldn't want that touching my gas tank. There may be the naphthalene in it - but what else accompanies it? I realise that the other insert ingredents may be small and minute - but that can put a fuel system in jepardy really quick. I'll never do it - and I strongly don't recommend you doing it. If you really need the higher octane - just buy plus, premium or Super-Blue (drools) and some others have 100 octane fuels. Especally when you are running that type of engine. Or (I don't like using additives) just buy some of that Octane Booster stuff. I'll never touch that stuff - but other people sware by that.
Anyone have a little gas powered RC car that they wouldn't mind possibly "testing". :D

Tytus Gerrish 04-12-2003 09:55
Re: MothBall Octane booster
 
those rc cars run on nitro, not gasoline

Matt Attallah 04-12-2003 14:17
Re: MothBall Octane booster
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish
those rc cars run on nitro, not gasoline
Yup...maybe if someone has an old lawn mower engine or something...or even a beater car...DJ!! :D


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