Thread: when should one run Alcohol ?

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Pro:
You can wash your hands in it before you make a sandwich.
Motor runs cooler due to higher latent heat of evaporation over gas.
Will support high compression without detonation.

Con:
Very corrosive to fuel delivery system. Will eat rubber and some other materials, must use stainless for problem-free installation.
Methanol is used at about 6:1 air/fuel ratio, so it takes about twice as much to make the same BTU's as gasoline at 12:1.
Ethanol is used at about 9:1.
In the daylight, you can't see alcohol flames. So if you're on fire, you don't know it until it starts hurting.
Car will be harder to start without some other highly-combustible substance being introduced into the the injector/carb/manifold at initial startups.

Yes, you can use nitrous with alcohol.

That will get us started, others will have more info......