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Originally Posted by crosscountry
I think refining alcohol to work in the Delorean would have been easier than all of that.
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Well, in early trials they blew the intake manifold, rendering the engine useless.
How Doc, given his PhD would forget to refine the 80-proof into near 100-proof is beyond me, as all gas engines today can run on 200-proof for a short time (certainly enough to get it to 88 mph).
But, he didn't, and fed it 80-proof, which, in the story, blew the intake manifold.
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Last edited by mugaliens : 11-May-2008 at 12:07 PM.
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