Whiskey in the Tanks?
how does the trick work when howard put whiskey in the tanks to give it 50 more rpms?
Stewie Griffin - "Ha ha. Oh, this is so good it just HAS to be fattening."
It doesn't; it's pure Hollywood fantasy. 80-proof whisky is 60% water. That wasn't a fuel tank he was pouring it into. A pint of grain alcohol contains less energy than a pint of Diesel fuel. And those are 5,400-horsepower engines that'll suck down four tons of fuel per hour - a half-pint of anything isn't going to have any effect.
There's no magic to getting a little more power out of a big Diesel engine like that. Just add more fuel to each stroke. You'll blow black smoke, waste fuel and gunk up the inside of the engine with oily soot deposits, but the truth is just so much less colorful than Harry Dean Stanton and his whisky.
He poured it in the oil not the fuel.
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If anything, thinning the oil in an engine will make it more succeptible to galling.
Not really "pure hollywood fantasy" as was suggested either, however. If it were "white lightning" or such, and there were enough added, then (and only then) one might get a few more BTU's out of each power stroke. Pretty unlikely though.
A paralell might be how we as kids raced our dad's old riding mowers around. If one put a few moth balls into the quart capacity fuel tank, it would blow foot long blue flames out of the exhaust and run a little faster. I'm sure though. at the expense of engine longevity. Sort of like what nitro-methane does to the piston tops on top fuel dragsters. They only last a few runs between rebuilds.
I'm not arguing that it wouldn't work in the real world. I'm just saying that he said it would thin out the mix and gain 50 rpm, hence he added it to the oil not the fuel.
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