[Shop-talk] Engine damage

[eric at megageek.com]

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?

I knew this would be the place for the definitive answer!

Eric P
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson