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Old 07-15-2008, 05:14 AM   #1
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Cleaning the outside? or inside?
Alcohol is for drinking, gasoline is for washing parts. Methanol is for racing!
Maybe for them, but for me Methanol is for making Biodiesel!

Just be sure the fuel lines and seals are alcohol (ethyl or methyl) resistant. The 10% ethanol limit was due to the rubber being degraded much more rapidly at higher percentages.
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Alcohol is for drinking
You're making me thirsty.

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You're making me thirsty.

Mmmm, I see curly fries on that menu...

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Alcohol is for drinking
I seem to have read somewhere (of course, now, I can't find it) that Chrysler did an experiment with their turbine car back in the early '60s...running it on scotch. I understand that the engineers on the project cried as they poured the scotch into the tank...of course the car ran...don't know if it drove a straight line, though...
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