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Methanol's accepted conservative Octane rating is 123. While researching methanol injection on WWII-era fighter planes and going through some research papers, I have come across Methanol octane ratings of 160 up to 200, depending on the source. In our tuning we use 123 as a base number for calculations, which works very well.

Methanol on its own does not add any horsepower, rather allows you to utilize all the above described benefits to run and tune for, higher boost while being knock-free.

While experimenting with Methanol we determined that 80/20 or 70/30 mix of methanol/distilled water works best for knock protection while maintaining all of the benefits of pure methanol.

Additionally, running methanol and very high boost levels (27psi in my case) results in thinning my Mobil-1 5W30 oil to water-like viscosity. At last oil change I used thick Mobil-1 0W-40 (European spec) oil, which should be just perfect until colder winter weather, when I can change back to 5W30.