Well, I was watching Racers Edge today on TNN and caught something about smearing sterno inside the airbox, which will act almost like NOS at the drag strip. Has anyone ever heard of this?? I didnt catch the whole clip this morning, only the 2nd half of it or so, so I'm kinda unclear about it. I emailed the TV show, which is hosted by an ex-pit crew chief btw. Hopefully I'll hear back, but I figured I'd ask people on here. It'd be an awfully cool little trick for a day at the strip if Sterno would actually provide a small NOS affect... sounds almost too good to be true though doesnt it

Am I a retard, what is Sterno ?

I'm with kloogy

Sterno... I think I've seen bums buy it, mix it with water and drink it. Sterno improved their formula to be something like 50% stronger. The bums didn't know... They mixed the same ratio of sterno to water... some went blind and some died.

For more info:

www.sterno.com

I may be overly cautious, but rubbing cooking fuel anywhere on/near my car seems like a bad idea.

Now, if I wanted some nice flame broiled burgers at the track...

Craig
2kGLE

I wonder how the Nissan MAF likes Sterno.
How can this stuff possibly act anything like Nitrous Oxide? This stuff is a fuel not an oxidizer. Dumping more fuel into the engine is the easy part and we don't need this crap smeared in our airboxes to do that.

ya thats about what i thought... dont know how it could act like an oxidizer. dont know what its made of, but it burns, so it'd be like smearing gas inside the airbox? well, something like that. hmm... very unsure of what the TV dude was talkin about. dont think i'll be trying this little trick

maybe for carb cars not not fuel injected with MAF...that cannot be good...unless you have the big bucks to address any failure that results from using cooking stuff for a boost...

dont be a cheap pioneer...go with what is safe.

ya maybe it was only for carb cars. wish i heard more of the thing on tv... well its aight, i'll stick with the regular bolt ons

so i guess now that TNN is the "first network for men" everyone is watching it. there are two posts this morning about things people saw on TNN.

I believe that sterno is just jellied alcohol. Alcohol contains significantly less energy than an equal volume of
gasoline, therefor how would this produce greater horsepower gains?

ya i've been trying to search on google for something related to this, and found nothing. sterno is, like you said, jellied alcolol. wood alcohol i believe is what i found earlier. dunno, just cant figure out how it would make power gains

I did not watch it.....I did see the prelude before they went to break......I think they were refer. to cars with carbs.\

Had a guy in a personal care home here in PA drink a bottle of sterno and die............So don't drink it

Alzheimers patient