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Old 06-26-2011, 07:00 AM   #114
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Good luck with methanol...

It's an awesome fuel but also an awesome oxidizer, and it's expensive to replace your fuel system every few months

It's actually used pretty often in dragsters and the like, but there are huge problems with corrosion there and they basically purge the methanol fully out of the system after every raceday.
(Technically, methanol itself isn't very corrosive but the contaminants it loves to dissolve, for instance chloride ions, are essentially always in with your fuel and are extremely good at galvanic reactions)

It's also very hygroscopic which is inconvenient.

And, as you mentioned, toxic.
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