| Author | Message | ||
     Gohot |
I'v got a 98 M2 Cyclone, and I used the VooDoo Juice for a few tanks worth of riding, wondering all the time if this stuff was harming my motor. Well at 20,008 miles I lost a bearing in the trans and lost 5th gear. Having a fiew bucks saved up and a new set of Thunderstorm heads and new cams. Well down went the motor, apart it came, inspecting every piece as I went. Top end good, pistons good, no scorching, no glazing on the walls, well the voodoo juice seemed to have kept it really clean, plugs were perfect coco, hmm not bad. But in went new pistons, since my friend needed some 1200 cylinders and pistons for his 883, perfect opertunity to go all new again. Well with the new heads, cams, S&S aircleaner, jet kit, V&H exhaust it was a bunch stronger than stock. After a good 500 mi breakin, I was really likeing the newfound power. Then I thought more voodoo juice,................. I know, you are asking what's this voodoo juice he's talking about?? "ROCKET FUEL" is the brand nane, it's those little amber squeeze tubes of octane booster at most bike shops called rocket fuel. Well what is this stuff? it is TOLULENE......a varnish remover originally. Turns out it's added to the pump gas you all use. F1 formula cars burn it at about 80% ratio, BIG BIG horspower this tolulene. One gallon is $16.99 at Sherwin Williams. About 1 oz. per gallon to start with is a very noticable boost. If you run 2 oz's per gallon its up around 105-6 octane. Go online and search tolulene as an octane booster and read up. Then if you want real horsepower step right up, well now you know. | ||
| Vortec57 |
Keep in mind though. The RF from HD is NOT reccomended for fuel injected bikes. Toululene is rather caustic and will eat plastic as well. | ||
| Jramsey |
If you want large H.P cheap buy a 'busa because your chemistry experiment in time will burn the bike or you both up. | ||
| Phat_j |
sounds like an unauthorized plug to me..... | ||
| Jramsey |
unauthorized plugs? Phat-j You shouldn't respond to the classifieds with your phone number if your not going to return calls to messages that have been left. | ||
| Oldog |
Interesting read I had to dig for it, it makes sense but I can see that it may damage the fuel systems plastic parts. | ||
| Pwnzor |
sigh.... *please* read carefully.  | ||
| Djkaplan |
Any kind of octane booster is a waste of money on a stock bike. If you want large H.P cheap buy a 'busa... Interestingly... 87 octane is what's recommended in Hayabusas. | ||
| Mikef5000 |
I've had people try to convince me to put Acetone in my fuel to get more power and better mileage. NO THANK YOU! I don't touch fuel additives unless it's a once a year bottle of fuel system cleaner. Risk your own engine, but I'm not risking mine. sounds like an unauthorized plug to me..... +1! I say kill it! | ||
| Djkaplan |
"I've had people try to convince me to put Acetone in my fuel to get more power and better mileage." That's an old hotrodders trick developed out of desperation in the 70's when high-compression engines from the 60's wouldn't run correctly on realatively low 93 octane premium we could get... this was before the widespread availability of octane boosters, btw. Count yourself lucky you never had to resort to it, but it would keep detonation and run-on at bay in those old cooking engines. I don't have a clue what it was doing to any rubber or fiber gaskets in the carbs back then... but I did it myself for awhile when I was braket racing at the drags with my old small block. "Risk your own engine, but I'm not risking mine." Everything runs so much better these days with fuel injection... I absolutely concur with your opinion here. | ||
| Gohot |
It wasn't a plug for SW paint..... it probably wouldnt, or certainly wouldn't be good for an everyday diet, and yes you should drain the tank on a tuber for sure. And FI. probably would get indigestion. but its fun, now and again. |
