anyone with a junker want to try this?
09-01-2005, 08:29 PM
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anyone with a junker want to try this?
Dunno if this thread is even legal for the board, but if anything is found unacceptable, please delete it as it was meant to be purely informational and just tossing ideas out there.
I came across this idea posted on the net a while back, like 2-3 years ago, but never though much of it, but now with the gas prices rocketting, maybe it's time to get a little drastic?
anyway, is there anyone out there with a junker VG or VE that will be going to the junkyard soon that is still able to run want to try this and tell us the result?
Anyway, read on:
http://www.elektro.com/~audi/audi/toluene.html
http://www.team.net/sol/tech/octane_b.html
and if you can google or yahoo, you can probably come up with a lot more
I came across this idea posted on the net a while back, like 2-3 years ago, but never though much of it, but now with the gas prices rocketting, maybe it's time to get a little drastic?
anyway, is there anyone out there with a junker VG or VE that will be going to the junkyard soon that is still able to run want to try this and tell us the result?
Anyway, read on:
http://www.elektro.com/~audi/audi/toluene.html
http://www.team.net/sol/tech/octane_b.html
and if you can google or yahoo, you can probably come up with a lot more
09-02-2005, 02:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt93SE
why bother? put timing to stock, fill with 87 octane, and don't worry about it.
anything above 25c* the car runs crappy on 87.
09-02-2005, 06:04 AM
#8
Originally Posted by nismosleeper
Once I boost, I plan on using a 100 or so octane mixture using toluene if gas prices are still this high.
dood.. put down the crack pipe. you won't be able to drive the car if you do that. $4 a gallon for gas, plus toluene isn't cheap at all. and only going up since it's a petroleum product as well.
09-02-2005, 06:41 AM
#10
Originally Posted by nismosleeper
Once I boost, I plan on using a 100 or so octane mixture using toluene if gas prices are still this high.
might as well run straight toluene.
09-02-2005, 11:10 AM
#11
Originally Posted by Matt93SE
dood.. put down the crack pipe. you won't be able to drive the car if you do that. $4 a gallon for gas, plus toluene isn't cheap at all. and only going up since it's a petroleum product as well.
09-02-2005, 11:45 AM
#12
Originally Posted by nismosleeper
Dude...you guys need to put down the hater-rade. I know that it's not an overnight project; I have been getting the pieces together for a month. so far I have the manifolds, a couple of LSD trannies, and 550 cc injectors. Waiting on a new job to provide a boost in income so I can complete it (I know what is involved). How won't the car be driveable? I can use live edit and hop on a dyno and get a program just for the higher octane. As it is I can get a 55 gal drum of 104 octane for 200. Now convincing my parents to let me keep a potential bomb in their yard.....
please tell me you aren't dropping every last cent you have into the car? Otherwise you are going to turn up like some of the members in teh past where they have to sell all their mods just to play for a tranny rebuild or something.
modding + parents generally doesn't work well, atleast if you have to mention them. I remember when I left an empty nitrous bottle at my Mom's house, Jimmeny Crickets I thought someone died I've never heard screaming/yelling so loud. (she thought it was going to explode
).
09-02-2005, 11:52 AM
#13
Dude, I'm not hating.. I've been there, done that.
my turbo stuff has been sitting on the shelf for years. and I even have the skills AND tools to fab up the piping. Do you?
gonna pay a shop? riiight. have fun. good luck paying for it while you're living with the parents.
my turbo stuff has been sitting on the shelf for years. and I even have the skills AND tools to fab up the piping. Do you?
gonna pay a shop? riiight. have fun. good luck paying for it while you're living with the parents.
09-02-2005, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt93SE
Dude, I'm not hating.. I've been there, done that.
my turbo stuff has been sitting on the shelf for years. and I even have the skills AND tools to fab up the piping. Do you?
gonna pay a shop? riiight. have fun. good luck paying for it while you're living with the parents.
my turbo stuff has been sitting on the shelf for years. and I even have the skills AND tools to fab up the piping. Do you?
gonna pay a shop? riiight. have fun. good luck paying for it while you're living with the parents.
09-02-2005, 08:01 PM
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oh god, delete this topic already, I just posted something that I found interesting, and was wondering if it would really work. Now it turn into a flame war, sheesh.
09-08-2005, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by MrGone
please tell me you aren't dropping every last cent you have into the car? Otherwise you are going to turn up like some of the members in teh past where they have to sell all their mods just to play for a tranny rebuild or something.
modding + parents generally doesn't work well, atleast if you have to mention them. I remember when I left an empty nitrous bottle at my Mom's house, Jimmeny Crickets I thought someone died I've never heard screaming/yelling so loud. (she thought it was going to explode
).i got the same thing when i told the moms about a spoiler.
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