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Old 03 March 2011, 01:34 PM
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My work colleague mentioned racing fuel for cars in a conversation, so I googled it and found that if I am prepared to pay £175, I can obtain just over 200 litres of racing fuel, which is 99.95% pure methanol.

I know I would have to have my car mapped for it, its already mapped for V-Power but I imagine racing fuel is higher than V-Power, something like 110 octane?

How feasible is it to run this stuff on a car if its mapped, it works out £0.85p a litre which is a LOT cheaper than V-Power and with the continued price hikes in fuel, maybe a viable option to switch to?

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run pure it eats fuel lines, seals etc etc. plus if you get caught short your stuffed.
Old 03 March 2011, 01:49 PM
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Ah well, was worth asking in these hard-times. lmao
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thats expensive
you can get that for £120 for 45 gallons
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200 litres of race fuel 102 ron
£800

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Old 03 March 2011, 06:43 PM
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That's CHEAP.... when I used VP racefuel it was something like £260 for 5 US gallons! lol
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