CA-40 Fuel Additive

[PAezb]

Anyone with experience/comments on this product?:

 

http://www.ca40g.com/home.php?xid=c0df4262bd5dfd6e8291d4bc0af12544

http://www.ca40g.com/pages.php?pageid=11

http://www.ca40direct.com/buy.html

 

Of particular interest to me is the Q&A:

http://www.ca40g.com/pages.php?pageid=15

[bulwnkl]

Never heard of it until now, but it seems about like most additives in that the numbers show pretty well for diesel engines, but gasoline either has few or no hard numbers or the numbers don't change hardly at all (as is the case here). Personally, I expect that the differences in hp listed for the only gasoline test the published are within margin of error for the dyno and/or attributable to the engine and especially the oil coming to full temperature.

 

One thing that really wigs me out is this table:

 

{YIKES! Table deleted because the formatting gets destroyed in translation}

The table I'm talking about is on this page.

 

If there are absolutely no unburned hydrocarbons when using the additive AND carbon monoxide is reduced, how in the world do you get less carbon dioxide and more oxygen? Could this possibly be attributed to the additive simply being an oxygenate? Like alcohol or various other things that are often put into fuel and almost universally despised by consumers?

[PAezb]

I may play the ginnie pig and try this on my 96 OBW. Minnesota product and easily available in the Twin Cities. At $30/qt and an ounce per tankful - we'll see...

[bulwnkl]

OUCH! That's expensive! I'm not sure which aspect of the product you're interested in, but there's a product that I expect is similar in intent that's reasonably local to you (at least it's a midwest/plains states product) from RenewableLube(.com) that I know from experience and analysis is not harmful. I can't claim much in terms of mpg except that when using the product my mpg does not drop in either car when running gasohol vs. regular gasoline. It's also a whole bunch less expensive.

 

If you do try the CA-40, let us know how it works for you!

[PAezb]

OUCH! That's expensive! I'm not sure which aspect of the product you're interested in, but there's a product that I expect is similar in intent that's reasonably local to you (at least it's a midwest/plains states product) from RenewableLube(.com) that I know from experience and analysis is not harmful. I can't claim much in terms of mpg except that when using the product my mpg does not drop in either car when running gasohol vs. regular gasoline. It's also a whole bunch less expensive.

 

If you do try the CA-40, let us know how it works for you!

 

If you were to see a conservative improvement of 5% to 10% on a ~$1.20 per oz on a 16gallon tank (that's on the 1quart purchase), you'd basically see a $3.5 to $7 savings per tankfull at current gas prices. But then there's the added hassle of measuring the additive each time your at the pump. CMH should put a pre-measure 1/2 to 1oz reservior on the top of the bottle (and a long dispensing funnel extension) similar to what other products like Stabil and 2cycle engine oils have.

Being the smallest purchase is 1qt, I've emailed a friend to review the product to see if he would be interested in splitting the quart for trail purposes (He has a Tahoe and probably has a better chance of benefitting, if at all). Would lessen the $ bite a bit, although the company claims a refund if you're not happy with the product.

 

We'll see, I have to do some more research on this...but if I do it, I definitely report back.

[bulwnkl]

If you're interested, US Plastics sells the Type 2 HDPE (High Density PolyEthylene) bottles with the dispensing chamber on top. You can see them at this page. I bought a couple from them for exactly this use. They're very inexpensive, but I'd agree with you that if the CA-40 guys are going to sell their product at such a price and by the quart, one of these bottles should be included with a long dispensing neck/cap.

 

Good luck!