Sugar in the tank was: OT FUNNY: Silly A4 owner...

[tberk@mindspring.com (T Berk)]

>  L F <rocco16v@netzero.net> wrote:
> 
>      By the way, just what can sugar do besides possibly
>      clogging a fuel filter?
>      I know for a fact that sugar won't dissolve in gasoline,
>      so all it can do is sit there in the tank.
>      (another urban legend....shot to hell)
> 
>      Larry
> 
>           I was thinking the same thing, and then
>           remembered a guy in high school who
>           dumped five pounds of sugar in his gas tank of
>           his early style Nova because
>           someone told him it would give him more
>           power-you can guess what happened.
<snip>
Dan Smith wrote:
> 
> I always thought it carmalized the engine.
> 
> Dan
> 



I am of the understanding the burning of the sugar (and in such big
concentrations) makes for left over carbon build up, fouling plugs,
clogging valve seats & catalytic converters, etc., etc.


Just a little won't do much, but what happens to fuel injectors?

TBerk