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- ed spangler
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Do you prefer the Lucas Fuel additive to Seafoam?
Do you use Stabil additive in fuel in winter months?
It seems everybody has their favorite I guess.
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ED
Have 1975 Kawasaki Z1-B & 2003 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Classic
Had Hondas, Harleys and many ,many Z Series Kaws both Std. & LTD's
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They will dissolve in Gas but it will take much longer plus the smell of the gas gets everywhere and it is long lingering. The Xylene or Toluene has non lingering vapors and both of these solvents have great benefits of their own, such as raising the Octane content.Can you just disolve the MB in a cup of gas?
Does it just take too long or it just doesn't disolve?
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76 KZ-900 Totaly stock vice MAC pipe
77 KZ-1000A stock
78 Z1-R 100%MINT 500 original Mi.
78 Z1-R Yoshi 1103 kit stage 1 cams Yoshi pipe. Etc
79 KZ-1300 (1400)
80 KZ-1300
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74 Z1-A stock
76 KZ-900 Totaly stock vice MAC pipe
77 KZ-1000A stock
78 Z1-R 100%MINT 500 original Mi.
78 Z1-R Yoshi 1103 kit stage 1 cams Yoshi pipe. Etc
79 KZ-1300 (1400)
80 KZ-1300
81 Scratch built GPz1150R
82 KZ1000
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So what quick and easy measurin device do you use ?
Mt bike is a 75 Z1-B stock gas tank,Suggestions for a quick and easy / accurate mixing? Some type of metal measuring spoon? Or?
Thanks Again
ED
Have 1975 Kawasaki Z1-B & 2003 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Classic
Had Hondas, Harleys and many ,many Z Series Kaws both Std. & LTD's
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Thanks!!
So what quick and easy measurin device do you use ?
Mt bike is a 75 Z1-B stock gas tank,Suggestions for a quick and easy / accurate mixing? Some type of metal measuring spoon? Or?
Thanks Again
ED
I carry this little bottle on my bike with one pre-measured amount always in it. For your bike I would add one OZ per full tank of gas. Which makes it just under 1/4oz per gallon. I than also carry an 8oz bottle under the seat along with this bottle. I personally reduce the stuff about 2:1 with Xylene because it is thick like 50w motor oil. The Xylene makes it easier to poor. The Xylene also has the side effect of slightly raising the octane rating of the gas. But in that small amount that is insignificant. i bought those bottles at McMaster-Carr. Item #2801T51
www.mcmaster.com/#graduated-bottles/=825v85
74 Z1-A stock
76 KZ-900 Totaly stock vice MAC pipe
77 KZ-1000A stock
78 Z1-R 100%MINT 500 original Mi.
78 Z1-R Yoshi 1103 kit stage 1 cams Yoshi pipe. Etc
79 KZ-1300 (1400)
80 KZ-1300
81 Scratch built GPz1150R
82 KZ1000
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Actually, a lot of people add acetone as it is hailed as a surfactant that will increase power from the gas. IMHO, that is pure BS but it is all over the internet and many people add it to the gas regularly. If added in very low concentration it does no harm. Many carb cleaner liquids and sprays have a lot of acetone in them because it dissolves gunk very well.I would be surprised if you could not get those two. They are standard solvents. Do not use Acetone. That would be disastrous. Acetone will damage the seals in
the carburetors and the intake boots. If you have a sealer(liner) in the tank it will damage that. If you add too much Acetone to your fuel it will induce severe detonation.
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74 Z1-A stock
76 KZ-900 Totaly stock vice MAC pipe
77 KZ-1000A stock
78 Z1-R 100%MINT 500 original Mi.
78 Z1-R Yoshi 1103 kit stage 1 cams Yoshi pipe. Etc
79 KZ-1300 (1400)
80 KZ-1300
81 Scratch built GPz1150R
82 KZ1000
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Interestingly, I also tried the platinum vapor injector sold by National Fuelsavers.com because it had a money back guarantee and was shocked to find out it did work for about a 10% increase in mileage on my old 1986 Dodge (carburetor engine). I was buddies with our staff scientist and nationally known author by the name of Robert Pease who put one on his old VW bug and was equally stunned to see his mileage go up 8%. He drove the same freeway to work, held at same speed, did the whole nine yards. Problem is, the platinum systems won't work on modern FI cars unless you can recalibrate the O2 control loop or it will read the increase in combustion efficiency (less unburned fuel) as a lean condition and rich it up which cancels out the gains. I tried it on my wife's FI Saturn and it had no gain.
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Commercial octane booster is really weak. A bottle of it only raises the octane about 0.4 point if added to a typical tank of gas as I recall. The only effective octane booster is the Octane Supreme 130 which has tetraethyl lead in it. You can easily jack the octane up ten points with that stuff.I have attempted this experiment also some years ago. It took four bottles of commercial octane booster to bring the gas back to a state where I did not think the head was going to blow off.
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volvospeed.com/Reviews/octane_boosters.html
I use both the NOS and the Lucas they are both quite good.
74 Z1-A stock
76 KZ-900 Totaly stock vice MAC pipe
77 KZ-1000A stock
78 Z1-R 100%MINT 500 original Mi.
78 Z1-R Yoshi 1103 kit stage 1 cams Yoshi pipe. Etc
79 KZ-1300 (1400)
80 KZ-1300
81 Scratch built GPz1150R
82 KZ1000
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Actually, quoting from the article it says:There are some out there that are actually good now.
As with almost all of the boosters tested, more than one bottle is needed to raise the octane of an entire tank any significant amount. /// To boost to 98 AKI from 93 on most tanks would require over 6 bottles.
That gets really pricey in a hurry. IMHO, that's not very good or practical. One 12 ounce bottle in with 14 gallons of gas is a dilution of about 1/150. To get significant gains it has to be a lot more.
The good one is Lucas:
To date Lucas octane booster is the only booster tested that had significant results with only one bottle in the tank. One bottle is enough to make 10 gallons of 96.6 octane out of 93.
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You can get Octane Supreme 130 for about $10/quart which works out to ballpark of about 30 cents per ounce.
But, the octane boost is impressive: at a ratio of two ounces booster per gallon of gas, you get an octane boost of about six numbers. For a ten gallon tank, 20 ounces at 30 cents an ounce is $6 to get up six numbers on octane.
www.kemcooil.com/specials.php
TREAT RATES R+M/2
0.6- Ounces OS-130 to 1 gallon/fuel���.2.0 point octane increase
1.2- Ounces OS-130 to 1 gallon/fuel���.3.5 point octane increase
1.8- Ounces OS-130 to 1 gallon/fuel��� 5.0 point octane increase
2.4- Ounces OS-130 to 1 gallon/fuel���.6.5 point octane increase
3.0- Ounces OS-130 to 1 gallon/fuel��.�8.0 point octane increase
Octane is in full points. eg; 93 octane to 101 octane by adding 3 oz. / gallon fuel
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