aydingokce
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Hello everybody,
The title speaks for itself, but let me explain the situation. Last weekend, I went to a local tuning shop to buy some ethanol to upgrade my fuel. They told me that they did not have any ethanol but they did have toluene and if I use at 30%, it will work very well. THey told that hey preferred toluene over ethanol. To be honest, I did not believe this but I still purchased it, given the fact that it was affordable and I thought that trying once would not give any harm. So I calculated the necessary amount of toluene to create a 30% toluene fuel (roughly half of of the fuel on board) and tried the car. The result was really shocking: The car could keep up with 2013 Peugeot 208 GTI (1.6 THP 200 HP) and 2013 Polo GTI DSG (1.4 TSI Twincharger 180 HP). Normally, there is a considerable difference in performance with these cars because Civic is quite heavier and CVT effectively kills the power.
I was surprised to get such a significant result. Indeed I live in a country where tuners always complain about the low gasoline quality, but, still, I was not expecting so much. Seeing such an improvement made me consider the potential harms of adding toluene into the fuel and this is the main purpose of creating this thread. Do you think (or know) that this is harmful for the car?
The title speaks for itself, but let me explain the situation. Last weekend, I went to a local tuning shop to buy some ethanol to upgrade my fuel. They told me that they did not have any ethanol but they did have toluene and if I use at 30%, it will work very well. THey told that hey preferred toluene over ethanol. To be honest, I did not believe this but I still purchased it, given the fact that it was affordable and I thought that trying once would not give any harm. So I calculated the necessary amount of toluene to create a 30% toluene fuel (roughly half of of the fuel on board) and tried the car. The result was really shocking: The car could keep up with 2013 Peugeot 208 GTI (1.6 THP 200 HP) and 2013 Polo GTI DSG (1.4 TSI Twincharger 180 HP). Normally, there is a considerable difference in performance with these cars because Civic is quite heavier and CVT effectively kills the power.
I was surprised to get such a significant result. Indeed I live in a country where tuners always complain about the low gasoline quality, but, still, I was not expecting so much. Seeing such an improvement made me consider the potential harms of adding toluene into the fuel and this is the main purpose of creating this thread. Do you think (or know) that this is harmful for the car?
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