Snow Performance Methanol Injection Kit - Hooked On Meth!

Once the plumbing and wiring were done, we strapped Jackson’s red Cobra to C&C’s Dynojet chassis dyno for a little truth session. The boys started out making a run with the car in its normal state of tune, which included VP113 fuel and the timing hovering at 36 degrees. The car put down a respectable 361 rear-wheel horsepower through a C4 tranny and an 8.8 rearend spinning 255-series Mickey Thompson Drag Radials. That was with the aforementioned 12:1 compression, a set of ported World Products heads, and a 242/246-at-.050 solid flat-tappet cam. Your basic old-school combo good for low 7-second eighth-mile e.t.’s. For round two, we filled the injector tank with straight pure methanol for a back-to-back test. The dyno graph was almost identical except down maybe 2 horses total. That would indicate that the engine already had plenty of octane and the added methanol just made the engine a little rich.

For the final test we pulled the plug on the Snow kit and ran the engine on pump gas only. There was a slight bit of audible detonation as the engine climbed through its powerband, but we were all shocked once the dyno graph popped up on the screen. It had dropped 50 hp!

Apparently, the methanol injection had increased the octane the engine was seeing enough so that it performed just as well as the straight race gas. Wow, a product that worked as good as—no better—than claimed! Never before has being hooked on meth been a good thing. One thing is for sure though, with gas prices as high as they are, Jackson’s old Mustang couldn’t have chosen a better time to become a methanol addict!