Over the last 75 years, hot rodders have tried souping-up their engines with every possible exotic fuel and power additive. After trial and error, they settled on nitromethane—a dry-cleaning solvent ...

The objective of the work reported in this paper was to develop and demonstrate an injection nozzle which can be used to inject both diesel fuel and methanol in to a direct injection diesel engine.

Injecting water and/or methanol into a diesel engine (gas, too) has been around for more than 75 years, but it didn't really have a good, practical application until WWII, when supercharged and ...