Patman
Staff member
What benefits do these provide?
This is basically what I'm getting at. Most people probably don't see any tangible benefits from it. Lots of people get 300k out of their engine without doing anything special at all. I bet less than 0.1% of the driving public ever regularily adds any sort of fuel additive to their tanks like this.quote:
Originally posted by appraiser:
I was using the Lucas brand. Their claim is it replaces the polymers that are removed in the oxygenation process that fuels now require. I quit using it. I did not notice a difference with or without it.
Actually, I don't agree with that Mola. Try this little test, use a test tube, put 1/4 diesel fuel, and 1/4 fuel additive.. use a rubber stopper, and shake up and down. What I have seen is that lucas and the 131 fuel additive by schaeffers will lubricate that stopper so much that it will not stay in the tube, and everytimg you push down on the stopper it pop's back up. Another way to see this, lay the tube down and roll around amd you can seel the oil on the tube. Even though the diesel fuel is an oil in itself, it will not leave the oil residue nor affect the stopper as the fuel additive does.quote:
Originally posted by MolaKule:
Just about any octane booster fuel additive contains an additive and a light oil that lubricates the upper cylinder.
That's why I use an octane booster with FP or Neutra.
The MMT in octane boosters also acts as a valve seat lubricant.