Alcohol fuel and bicycle engines

Guys
You all want more power speed etc. Alcohol has been talked about in the past on other forums. I'll tell you all a little that I know about it. It is lower in BTU but you can cram more in the cylinder for each power stroke that is one of the reasons for a power boost. You and run very high compression as it will not detonate like gasoline will and more but i don't want to go into detail.
Ok now the down side your mileage will go to heck. The stuff will eat fuel lines and seals. It will also eat the aluminum. It likes water and will draw water out of the air and rust up the internal bearing or any steel parts. You need to use a special oil in the premix oil as your regular oil will bead up and not mix. Caster oil will mix the last bottle I bought was $8.00 for a pint. Some synthetics will mix but all cost more than the oil for gas. Some synthetics cost about $20.00 a gallon or more. You all getting the urge not to use alcohol yet? Its recommended to drain the alcohol out of your engine after every use and flushing it with gasoline to keep the alcohol from eating up the engine and to stop the rusting of steel parts that will follow. That means even the fuel tank. Last time I bought alcohol fuel it was over $3.50 a gallon and that was 7 years ago.
So you still want to use it?
If it catches fire in the day time you will only know you are on fire cause of the extreme heat you will suddenly feel that can't bee good. You will not see the flame, at night it burns a pretty blue.
Nitro you don't want to mess with. That will cause you more trouble than its worth instant engine melt downs if used wrong or nasty explosions.Its not cheap either. Fumes can contain nitric acid and that will eat lungs and skin. I don't know if you can buy the stuff pure any more in bulk after 911 unless you have a nitro burning fueler or a licence for the stuff . I haven't tried. You might even get on one of those watch lists if you do buy some.
Did I talk any of you out of it yet? I hope so. But if you just got to try alcohol I warned you. I still have a alcohol fueled go kart and would like to sell it PM me if your interested. I could modify a stock carb to run on alcohol by drilling the main jet and testing but I'm not interested in doing that right now. When alcohol and the Castor gets cheaper than gasoline and its oil I'll go alcohol but not until I'm sure of it. Something for you all to think about. If you want to smell and hear alcohol and nitro go to the NHRA drags you will be blown away and you won't trash your engine.
Norman

It will work if you drill out the main jet but don't do it it will wreak your little bike engine I mean that in a very sincere way.
I too am testing the effects of alcohol in the bloodstream tonight.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa. good and cold. if I get enough in me I'll try that trick soaking my underware in alcohol and lighting it on fire isn't that what you said to do? DEacon
Normie

If I was doing it I'd say Ok all you sob's it the hogs againt everyone that would be a good sight to see. Those hogs could fly into a cessna and spit it out their exhaust pipe. I'm dreaming but I'd like tosee a hog open up with its nose cannon. Some of the major parts for its cannon were manafactured in my home town in Illinois. The barrels big enough you can stick your thumb in it. 20mm I think it a bad boy machine down and dirty Tough as nails from what I saw when it was in the desert war in Iraq. Kind of like a timex take a licking and keep on ticking.
Norman

You might be surprised but its really a pain if you do go to alcohol. If you don't take the precautions it will screw your engine up and can take it out very quick it will melt that piston to the cylinder in a heart beat if run lean or make it spit the rod out side. You might need to go to an adjustable carb they will cost almost as much as the engine kit. All the carbs I use for alcohol have an adjustable main jet. Even the simple old posa jet carbs had a mixture adjustment on the main. It even has a fixed main under the mixture screw that you had to drill out to 0.048 to 0.062 range fine tuning was with the mixture screw under power. I tried it on the stand one time and I had to build a new engine over revved it with out trying. Spit the rod right outside the block. The outlaw engine is using a tilliston carb drilled for alcohol and has adjustment for low and high speed . You can run alcohol but be ready to burn one up they are not forgiving,lot more to take care of the flushing will wear you out.

Some of the crazy things when running alcohol is when the engine is idleing, if you can call it that, it spits raw fuel out of the exhaust, sometime you smell formaldehyde cause of incomplete combustion, which is a cancer causing agent(but only in the state of calif.) so those of us who don't live there have nothing to worry about. Right?! We all like to smell those kind of fumes don't we?!!
but then again.No I'm not going to alcohol.