I have heard that putting mothballs in cheesecloth in your airbox will give you some more usable hp? Is there any truth to this? If yes, can it have any adverse affects?

 

Make sure to put one of those Tornado airfoil things in there while you are at it.

 

Why are people so sarcastic on this board. Yeah, i think i will... along with that fuel magnet thingy. Maybe ill attatch my hairdryer to the TB also, and connect a switch to turn it off and on... that should give my the racers advantage (Whoooo!!! .02 PSI!!)

 

HOLY SIG LINE!!!

 

Yes, mothballs helps get the bugs out of your engine.

Seriously, I have heard MANY rumors about using mothballs on cars over the years, most hogwash. As I recall, they are a solid form of prinicpally methyl hydrate and yes it can be burned. I used pure liquid methyl hydrate as the principal ingredient in the fuel I mixed for my model airplanes when I was younger.

Of all the "rumors" I have heard about putting mothballs, is if you have some water in the gas tank. The methal hydrate seems to help by making some chemical reaction with the water so you can burn the fuel. Or more, the water doesn't cause as much havoc when you have a little methyl hydrate. But, I would recommend using pure liquid methyl hydrate over mothballs as mothballs have other chemicals and it's really the methyl hydrate you want.

 

Sounds like more trouble than it's worth...

 

I believe that mothballs are made of parifinwax and the same thing they use to up the octain in gas. But fir the life of me I can't remember the name of the chemical.

 

For the reccord I got this information from a guy that use to work at a gasoline production plant. He was a chemical guy.

 

There was a web site that went into the whole moth ball myth. Basically there are 2 different kinds of mothballs. 40 years ago they were made with a chemical that would increase octane when dissolved in gas. Then they changed chemicals. The newer mothballs only plug things up. But they also said in the article that some companies are switching to the older formula again. Wish I had a link, but I remember them saying that even if its the older formula the moth ***** contain many other things that would be detrimental to fuel systems.

 

that is what the guy that told me this said that if they contained parifan that they would just clog up your fuel system. He also told me htat that stuff HEAT (used for keeping your fuel from freezing) was the same thing as an octain booster that it was equal to a bottle of that street formula octain boosters.

 

parafin is what Pennzoil puts in their oil, which leaves nasty deposits.

leave the ***** to the moths

 

I posted this back in July...........

From my reading here is what I have gathered. The general thinking is that mothballs when added to gasoline will raise the octane and thus allow higher compression and more ignition advance and hence more power output from the motor. Mothballs contain Napthalene, this falls in the broad catagory of aromatics, and more precisely, Poly nuclear aromatics. Since tetra-ethyl lead was banned from gasoline formulation, aromatics were substituted to raise the octane of the newly formulated unleaded fuel. Aromatic content for current US pump gas runs around 20 to 25%. Napthalene is present in only trace amounts with almost all aromatic content being made up of Toluene and Benzine. The problem with using mothballs is that they in general are no longer made with Napthalene, rather they use para-dichlorobenzene which does not raise octane. The article I read said that with modern gasolines, naphthalene is more likely to reduce the octane rating, and the amount required for raising low octane fuels will also create operational and emissions problems. In addition, it went on to say that there are toxicity concerns with para-dichlorobenzene, so be careful about over exposure.

 

Sorry, I gotta post this....

Have you ever smelled moth *****?

How did you get their legs apart?

 

Vary carefully with tweesers and an assistant. The funniest thing is the look on their faces when you do that. LOL man I am tired.

 

i just thought u guys wuld like to know tht PARAFIN wax is also used as a plasticizer in the production of plastic explosives.

 

Parafin comes from oil wells