That whole sugar in the gas tank thing is pretty much just an urban
legend. Check out snopes on
this: http://www.snopes.com/autos/grace/sugar.asp. This is how they
did it for the "cash for clunkers"
program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0IcIxhd8ks. But that
wasn't added to the gas.
-Steve Trovato
strovato@optonline.net
At 12:17 PM 9/30/2013, eric@megageek.com wrote:
>Hello all, theoretical question about engines.
>
>My co-workers and I were talking about trying to identify if an engine was
>tampered with after it was destroyed. (I work in law enforcement.)
>
>We were wondering, would you be able to tell if someone put sugar in a gas
>tank and it lunched the engine? Mostly on a small engine verses a car.
>(I'm assuming that a fuel filter would catch any additives in a car.)
>
>If so, is there something else to put in gas that would kill it? Or
>something else that can be done that was undetectable?
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