Well, this one has been around for decades, but the root of it is really an octane booster, but never heard much on running it directly.

Naptha/Naphthalene - aka "moth *****" in the old days. The hot rodders would actually use moth *****, but the active chemical was naptha, which is found in many octane boosters as well as other petroleum products; camp fuel etc.

The more research I did I found it linked as an equal to xylene/toulene, alcohol, acetone, etc.

So, anyone ever ran a gallon of Naptha mixed in?


Nitro Power Booster Fuel Treatment
1-Nitropropane 45-55%
Toluene 18-27
Methanol 13-23
Acetone 5-10

MMT+ Octane Booster Fuel Treatment (offroad)
Toluene 25-30%
Methanol 25-30
Hydrocarbon Solvent 20-30
Acetone 5-10
Octane Improver Concentrate 5-10
Hexanes <5

Wynn's Spitfire +Plus+ With Octane Booster
Petroleum Distillate 85-95%
Naptha 1- 5

Gunk Octane Performance Booster
Petroleum distillate, Aliphalic 60-100%
Hydrocarbon Solvent 1- 5
Polyether amine 1- 5
Naphthalene .1- 1
Petroleum naphtha .1- 1
Xylene .1- 1

Turbo Octane Boost 108
(No percentages given)
Methanol
t-Butyl alcohol

STP Octane Performance Booster
Kerosine, petroleum, hydrodesulfurized 60-80
Petroleum distillates (JP5 Jet fuel) 60-80
Solvent naphtha, petroleum, medium aliphatic 60-80
Stoddard solvent 60-80
Solvent naphtha, petroleum, light aromatic 15-40
Trade secret ingredients 10-30
Naphthalene 0- 2
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene 1-10
Mesitylene (1,3,5-Trimethylbenzene) 1- 5
Xylene (mixed isomers) 1- 3

 

I have run this stuff for the past 3 years....
http://torcoracefuel.net/pro-accelerator.html

 

Also:

"The "good" octane boosters are basically just over-the-counter “heavy” naphtha. One of the functions of “heavy” naphtha in the petrochemical industry is to raise the octane of “light” naphtha (gasoline). There’s a wealth of info on the Internet regarding naphtha and it’s ability to raise octane.

The good ones will have only 1 or 2 ingredients with “heavy” naphtha being the main ingredient. The cheap ones will list alcohol as one of it’s main ingredients."


Also:

It seems on all the octane boosters tests I have read, the best ones seem to have high levels of Naptha/Napthalene. And the one that seems always the best or most potent, Lucas Octane Booster, shows in the MSDS sheet: Petroleum distillates, Hydrotreated Paraffinic, Naphthenic Solvent.

 

Powerful stuff based on their blend sheet. Cost is up there as well.

Like to find an MSDS on it to see the main or active chemicals.

 

http://torcoracefuel.net/2-docs/msds...ccelerator.pdf

 

YEAH
Stuff is GREAT!! Here is the MSDS
Torco Unleaded Accelerator
UN 1203, PETROLEUM DISTILLATES, LIQUID, N.O.S., 3, II
THIN LIQUID NDA
BROWNISH 93.3°C (199.94°F)104.4°C (219.
LIQUID -10.5°C (13.1°F) (Tag Closed C
MILD HYDROCARBON ODOR
NA
.56 CST@ 40°C (104°F) >1
710 @ 60°F Negligible
>2
2.07mmHg @ 38°C (100°F)
Isoalkanes 7-8 70024-92-9 50-99%
Methylcyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl 121108-13-3 .01-10%
Solvent Naphtha, Heavy aromatic 64742-94-5 3-10%
Naphthalene 91-20-3 .01-5%
-10.5°C (13.1°F) (Tag Closed Cup) 1 6.6

Acute Oral Toxicity: LD50 / rat / > 5000 mg/kg
Acute Dermal Toxicity: LD50 / rabbit / > 2000 mg/kg
Acute Inhalation Toxicity: LC50 / rat / 86.46 mg/l / 4 hour(s)
NDA
Biodegradability: 28 day(s) / 74 % volume

 

E85

 

Just to be clear - Naptha is a mixture (not a molecule or even a 'chemical' really) of compounds. It contains a fair amount of toluene, xylene and similar molecules as well as lots of heavier alkanes. Seems to me that naptha is essentially like buying pump gas with toluene and xylene already added.

Napthalene is a molecule, very similar to toluene, that is a component of naptha.

 

Toluene from Lowes What up Todd?

 

..hmm, that seems to make sense (even to me!)

When I owned my Turbo 6 Buick I was always dumpin' sh%t in the gas tank...used to be a lot of discussion about that on their boards. Heck, like the 951 it wasn't that hard to run 18/19 psi on pump gas anyway. Of course the car completely changed character with a simple race chip swap, straight leaded race gas and 25psi!!!!!!!!!!

I am very interested in E85 if anything for the extra safety margin. At the same time I'm only running 15psi right now and the car is powerful as it is.

Never enough right!

 

+ 1,000000 LOL

But I can't get it locally or I would be all over it.

 

I am more of a Home Depot fan....

 

See, it keeps popping up in all the more powerfull octane boosters.

 

Actually I've always gone with Xylene as it is 117 octane over the 114 of Toulene. But Toulene supposedly has a higher BTU. But for turbo octane I feel carries more weight than BTU potential.

But they are both $15-16 a gallon and just not worth it.

I am gonna run some acetone again now that I have my knock counter hooked up and see how that fairs with the standard 1 oz per gallon mix. At that rate, if it offers any knock suppression, is really cheap. And most MSDS of octane boosters also have levels of acetone in them.

 

hey!!

I was just in O Town. The family went down for Thanksgiving. I saw 1 red 951on I 4.

I went by Redbone on the FRI after Thanksgiving but they were closed.

If I was still in Orlando E85 would be available but not up here where I am at now.