Alternative Fueled, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles - acetone as additive

Does anybody know if bubbling air through 100% acetone and then drawing that mixture into the intake manifold has any benefit for milage/performance?

Regulating it would be your problem. Too little, no effect. Too much will punch holes in the tops of your pistons. Acetone has no lubricative properties and would dry out the area too fast. And don't even say the word "acetone" around a diesel. You'll be picking up engine pieces for a week.

What I am drawing into the intake is a vapor- does that still pose a problem? I am bubbling air through the liquid acetone.

Gasoline drawn into the cylinders is a vapor, but it is regulated. So anything you introduce to the engine, be it Nitrous Oxide, or fuel alternatives like you suggest, will have to be monitored and their ingestion metered, even if it is a vapor. Otherwise, one second it will burst with speed until it has sucked all it can, then will die of until the vapor has reached a certain pressure, then the cycle starts all over again. Can you fill us in on what you are trying to accomplish?

Acetone as a fuel additive has repeatedly been shown to have no beneficial effect.I seriously doubt your method of using it will change that outcome.

Been looking up info for this issue to try myself.

Here are a few links I've found so far:

http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2005/03/17/6900069_Acetone/
http://www.lubedev.com/smartgas/faq.htm
http://www.gassavers.org/

thanks- I did check out the links, good info.

Does anybody know if bubbling air through 100% acetone and then drawing that mixture into the intake manifold has any benefit for milage/performance?

Interesting subject,

Acetone, as well as the dozen of so additives we read about have limited benefits on fuel economy. Most will enhance you fuel economy if your engine has a higher than normal carbon build up, as in high mileage low maintenance vehicles have, but the truth is, once you do add acetone, or other additives, it only takes a few tanks to see an improvement, but you don't need to run these fuel additives all the time to see same results. You may need them only once every few months depending on car and driving pattern, stop and go verses highway, as example.

As to acetone, you have to be careful as it is very corrosive, and in older cars you may cause more damage then the cleaning benefits. As to running air bubbles through acetone, what this is suppose to accomplish is vapor, which does have a benefit. I have researched and tested every known system, and vaporizing fuel is certainly going in the right direction, but most systems are not reliable enough to see constant results from. A clean engine is essential for best fuel economy, always has been, always will be.