Thread: drum of alky
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Old 01-03-2008, 08:58 PM
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OneBadGMC
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If you're bracket racing and they don't check fuel gravity, go with Methanol from an chemical wholesaler.

It'll be about 1/2 the cost per gallon as racing methanol.

The only thing you have to keep watch for is the purity and how long it's sat in storage.

If the company has a high turnover of methanol, you're in good shape. If not, you'll want to buy an alky hydrometer and do your own testing.

Make sure, no matter who you get your alky from, to filter it before it goes into the tank, and filter it again after it comes out of the pump.

The other thing you'll need to get (available from any hi performance shop) is some top end lube for the drum of fuel. Industrial grade methanol has no lubricants in it for the valves (Race grade already has this added).

Do yourself a favor and avoid the scented top end lube until you get used to the alky. The scented lubes take the sting out of the alky and you wind up getting more in your eyes and lungs than you want and pay for it later that night as you lay in bed coughing that shit up.

Make sure to drain your fuel system and lube the pump/barrel valve between race weekends...
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