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Re: Sugar (or chemical sabotage) in an engine.
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 4/14/2002

Back in the muscle car era (60's-70's), before fuel injection was common, I saw a few that had been sugared. In the high compression engines, the sugar/gas mixture would crystalize into carbon crystals in the cylinders and proceed to grind heck out of everythi... Login to read more.