[Christ]

K, so now that gas is at a national average of $4.00+ per gallon (more expensive than milk), I'm fulfilling an old promise I made to some friends and family a few years ago.

I'm going to start experimenting with fuels, because frankly, it's time someone did something.. and, obviously, you can't single-handedly change the price of oil/gas, so that means you have to learn to improvise.

There are several test subjects I've been looking at, one of which is Xylene, as it's in fully available supply where I work.. I'm a Union Bricklayer (Pointer, Caulker, Cleaner) (BAC Local 5), and because of the caulk and polymers that we use, we clean our equipment with Xylene, which has an octane rating of 117. (Or 114, depending on what blend of iso-polymers was used to create it.)

I'm going to be testing Xylene, Toluene, Acetone additive, and... for some reason, the "water fuel cell as an additive". I'm not going to explain that one.. you can look it up all over the place...

But, I figure that since I can rebuild my engine and fix just about anything that goes wrong with it, and, shortly, I'll be capable of tuning my ECU on the fly, I'll do the research to see what's up with fuel additives, and may eventually try replacing gasoline altogether.

And, just for the record... F\/©|< OIL COMPANIES.

Keep in mind, testing is a delicate procedure, and will take quite some time to nail down a given result, and make it repeatable... so please, be patient, I will post results as I get them.