Saw this product on MotorWeek, thoughts on use with a C6?

http://extrafuel.net/

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Wow, $30 for half gallon, I think best to just pay attention to your fuel guage!!

 

With the cruising range these cars get I sure haven't had a problem. I'm ready to pee before I need gas.

 

I've been driving cars for 55 years and have run out of gas 1 time.

 

From the website..."Across the U.S. thousands of deaths annually are attributed to people running out of gas on the roadside."...really? Thousands?

 

I just hate when I pass those corpses on the side of the road, their poor car about a half mile back, out of gas. The ones that are only half dead are the worst - I just zoom away quickly from those so I don't have to look too closely.

 

Yeah, they invented something with unique properties and are now trying to find a use for it. This ain't it. But, don't forget teflon and lasers----- they eventually found pretty good uses.

 

I have at least a bit of the same reaction as the earlier posts, but if I get past that and ask myself what the stuff really is, I'd offer the following educated guess. It sounds like a low vapor pressure component of gasoline, such as alkylate. If so, it would be safer to carry in your trunk than gasoline, but I wouldn’t personally feel safe carrying it around all the time as a permanent part of my trunk contents. The safety difference would be sort of like the safety difference between gasoline and diesel fuel, with diesel fuel being somewhat safer because it is more difficult to light than gasoline. You can pull the old trick of putting out a burning match by pouring diesel fuel on it too. But I wouldn’t make a habit of doing that because make no mistake, if you’re a bit sloppy with your pouring, both alkylate and diesel fuel will burn fiercely once lit.

As far as behavior in your car as a gasoline substitute, if this stuff is indeed alkylate or something similar, and if the car is warmed up like it probably would be if it’s a “running out of gas” situation, it should work ok. If your car is cold, it would be difficult to start and would run rough once started, because you need some of the higher vapor pressure components to help vaporize the gas when the engine is cold. But there wouldn’t be much, if any potential for damaging your engine. Premium fuel that you buy every day already contains a range of about 20-50% alkylate, depending on the refinery situation where it’s made.

 

Save your money......... although I have a chrome exhaust pipe tip that is supposed to add 55 RWH, and only costs $9.95...........

 

i can i sell you some stock in a hockey puck farm?

 

I guess it might go a long way towards ridding the highways of all the dead bodies of those who forgot to fill up at the last stop....

 

I have four of them so I guess I get 220 RWHP.

 

Actually the stuff's not exactly new, as recall reading about it years ago. Never bought any though. When I go to the track, I'll fill up a couple 2-1/2 gallon gasketed race fuel jugs in town, just in case. Works for me.

 

I was thinking the same thing: I was in a gorgeous '61 Catalina Coupe, the one with the bubble rear window.

After that, I tried to pay a bit more attention to the gauges!

 

I can't remember ever running out of gas. For $60 a gallon I'll pass. Gasoline still works fine for me. Hell, that's about what the Secretary of Energy wants us to be paying for a gallon of gas.

 

The price of the stuff hadn’t really registered with me when I made my earlier post in this thread. If the stuff really is alkylate, that is the highest quality, most expensive component in gasoline blends. But by “most expensive”, I only mean something like 30-50 cents/gallon more expensive, not 60 bucks. I guess they are asking people to pay for the idea. Doesn’t sound like a 60 buck idea to me, especially when it’s only reduced danger of carrying, not zero danger of carrying.

 

If only we were as smart as the government...