Experience of isopropyl - good read (long)
 

Re: Experience of isopropyl - good read (long)
 

bump for good info

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WOW, ... This demands re-reading to get it past the thick part of my ordinary brain.!!!!!

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OK,

So basically it's too rich if used the injection configuration of methanol/ethanol?
What if he had adjusted the AFR to match an ideal Lambda?

I imagine that methanol has more oxygen content than iso alky.
I imagine that you will need a smaller nozzle for iso alky?

Isopropyl also contains a higher energy content than methanol
There is conflicting info on the internet about the octane of isopropyl.

and what is the stoich of Isopropanol?

Re: Experience of isopropyl - good read (long)
 

Methanol: ......... 6.43
Ethanoi:............ 8.94
Isopropanol: ..... 10.28
Butanol: ........... 11.12
Pantanol: ......... 11.68
Gasoline: .......... 14.70

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Hey richard, I had asked some chemist on Quora.com what the stoic is, the responded 11.4:1

His response:

No wonder they were shooting flames.

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I got the data from here:

http://www.aquamist.co.uk/forum/alcohol fuel.pdf

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Why would any use Isopropanol instead of ethanol or even methanol which are surely a better alcohol ?

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Found this on another forum

http://subypal.blogspot.co.uk/2011/1...injection.html

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Great find Dust ! A must read !

According to this article isopropyl is all way better than methanol.. what about the corrossion ? Is isoprpyl a winner here again ?