Originally Posted by Wolf359
Originally Posted by BMWTurboDzl
Probably going to get roasted for this but BMW sells a concentrate for both winter and summer which you dilute with distilled water. The winter formula contains a high percentage of methanol and you can adjust the ratio of water : concentrate to reach whatever temp range you want.
What's the cost though? You basically can't beat .98 cents for a gallon at Home Depot.
That -20F gallon has about 27-36% methanol.
http://www.thelsxdr.com/methanol-injection-101/
One place sells a pint for about $3.16 which to get a a 36% concentration only yields 3 pints or about 48oz or close to $10 to make a similar gallon, not even factoring in the cost of a distilled gallon of water which is almost $1.
Consider yourself roasted.
Here's one guy that sells 55 gallon drums at $277
http://www.cqconcepts.com/product-category/methanol-99/
So you could get over 150 gallons of windshield washer fluid out of it. But your costs for the methanol alone is still over $1.60 a gallon. Plus you then have over 150 gallons of windshield washer fluid....
First the HD stuff is already mixed. The BMW winter concentrate would run me about $2 (w/discount) for 16oz (1 pint) of concentrate. Mixed with distilled water at a 2:3 ratio yields a freeze point of -25F.
The reason why I mentioned it is because it's a concentrate and is a readily available option to buy in a quantity he would need rather than a 55 gallon drum. Seriously, other than someone who makes their own biodiesel who in the world would buy a 55 gallon drum of methanol. just to mix up washer fluid?
Originally Posted by BMWTurboDzl
Probably going to get roasted for this but BMW sells a concentrate for both winter and summer which you dilute with distilled water. The winter formula contains a high percentage of methanol and you can adjust the ratio of water : concentrate to reach whatever temp range you want.
What's the cost though? You basically can't beat .98 cents for a gallon at Home Depot.
That -20F gallon has about 27-36% methanol.
http://www.thelsxdr.com/methanol-injection-101/
One place sells a pint for about $3.16 which to get a a 36% concentration only yields 3 pints or about 48oz or close to $10 to make a similar gallon, not even factoring in the cost of a distilled gallon of water which is almost $1.
Consider yourself roasted.
Here's one guy that sells 55 gallon drums at $277
http://www.cqconcepts.com/product-category/methanol-99/
So you could get over 150 gallons of windshield washer fluid out of it. But your costs for the methanol alone is still over $1.60 a gallon. Plus you then have over 150 gallons of windshield washer fluid....
First the HD stuff is already mixed. The BMW winter concentrate would run me about $2 (w/discount) for 16oz (1 pint) of concentrate. Mixed with distilled water at a 2:3 ratio yields a freeze point of -25F.
The reason why I mentioned it is because it's a concentrate and is a readily available option to buy in a quantity he would need rather than a 55 gallon drum. Seriously, other than someone who makes their own biodiesel who in the world would buy a 55 gallon drum of methanol. just to mix up washer fluid?
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