Alcohol/M85 with a twang.

Robert Harris bob at bobthecomputerguy.com
Sun May 18 07:48:45 GMT 1997


Friend of mine has one of these little remote control helicopters
Showed me his "Fuel" .  16 % Synthetic Castor Oil, 69 % 
Methanol Alcohol, 15 % Nitromethane.  Sort of sounds like
M85 with a twang. Was sort of expensive - about $14 a gallon 
until you figure that Nitro runs 50+ a gallon and ain't too 
readily available and this stuff is available at any model airplane
shop, in various mixtures and proofs. 

Now, since Nitro and Alcohol both have high latent heats of
evaporation - i.e. makes air fuel real cool, and this blend probably
has reasonable octane, what do you suppose would happen if
a reasonable amount was separately injected as boost went positive?

You think it might be an inexpensive way to get things real exciting?

If the first ingredient ain't Habanero, then the rest don't matter.
Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>






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