Additional categories of fuel additives include antioxidants, hybrid compound blends, oxygenates, antiknock agents, leader scavengers, fuel dyes, metal deactivators, and corrosion inhibitors. Oil ...

Octane rating is the index of antiknock qualities.* Before 1922 the only way to raise this rating was to increase the percentage of isooctane (and similar compounds). Isooctane is a hydrocarbon ...

Many snowmobiles were given carburetor fuel bowls heated by engine coolant. In F1 racing, Honda in the 1980s era of turbo engines running on highly antiknock but slow-evaporating toluene-based fuel ...

Further benefits of this solution are the increased heat dissipation compared with cast iron, the resulting improvement in antiknock properties during combustion and improved corrosion resistance ...