20% Nitro 18% Oil - What's the other 62%?

[Digital Liquid]

If a quart of gas contains 20% Nitromethane and 18% Oil - that equalls only 38%. So what is the remaining 62% that is in the quart bottle?

Any insight would be helpful.

 

[FRIDGE]

man if it starts ur car and its a good temperature use it who gives hoot what else is in it

 

[moparrob]

Alcohol!! :burp:

 

[Error401]

The remainder is mostly methyl alcohol, with some other additives like anti-foaming agents and ignitors.

 

[SilentHunterKellen]

It says on the bottle.

oh, and someone move this to General Nitro Please...this has absolutely nothing to do with Savage.

 

[Bill Hoskinson]

RC Nitro Talk » R/C Forums » General Nitro Talk :shhh:

 

[SilentHunterKellen]

Must be the damn neighbors doing the Maui Wow Wee...

 

[Error401]

I moved it right after you suggested it SHK, it wasn't the neighbors.

 

[SilentHunterKellen]

Good...thought I was going nuts...lol
(good job newjack)

 

[Digital Liquid]

Doh! 8-0 SHK, I would have never guessed to read the bottle. That is a novel idea. Anyway, if you check some bottles of fuel, they don't have the proportion of ingredients listed. For example, Traxxas Top Fuel.

Sure I messed up by posting this in the Savage forum, but that is really no big deal.

Thanks for the quick insight.

Later...:bow: :bow: :bow:

 

[msly]

Yea traxxas and some other company's guard the ingredients and amounts. They consider it a trade secret.

 

[SilentHunterKellen]

Heres a hint for you guys, When reading an ingredient list, the most added ingredient goes first, then the next, and so on and so forth...EX: Flour Cookies would be something like:

Flour, Cookies.

Hope that helps on your ingridient%game.

 

[Digital Liquid]

SHK, U R missing the whole point. It is not a question of reading the label. The question is that some fuels do NOT have an ingredient label. So how exactly do you know what you are getting?

By the way, in case you didn't know this, the FDA does not regulate fuel labels like they do food.

Thanks again for your insight. Later...