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Originally Posted by yco
for additive part like in old times, yes probably they do it more cause they could add more additives especially in 1980's.. but with basically something like a rocket fuel.. cant remember its name it should be something tiolin, taulon or something i need to look cause im a designer not a engineer or something..  |
Yes they were using some pretty toxic chemicals to boost the octane back in the day...Toluene is the one you are thinking of.
On oil burning...I was reading that some teams had an auxiliary oil tank and valves in the inlet manifold to inject oil with octane bosting additives. These have since been banned.