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From: ralph@inuxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: methanol question
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Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 13:22:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 13:22:27 1984
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There is another point that I'd like to mention. Pure methanol is very
corrosive to aluminum, and racing engines that run methanol mixtures must
be flushed with gasoline after each race to save the aluminum engine block.
Cars with aluminum engines (and there are a lot of them these days) might
be troubled by fuel with a high percentage of methanol, but I would imagine
that a 1-4% mixture would effectively be "flushed" by the 96% gasoline in
the mixture.

				Ralph Keyser
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