Dave, your last post seems to be the opposite of your first post. Is the engine glow or gas? OK, I'll flip 180 degrees. If it is a glow engine, and you want to convert to gas, you have the same problems, but in the opposite direction. You still need new jets and or an entire carb, and you'll need an ignition system, and there is no guarantee is will run well. If the engine is smaller than 1.5cu inch, I wouldn't peruse this anymore. If it is larger than 1.5cu inch, I got to ask why? Fuel costs? Why not just buy a engine designed to run pump gasoline?

As for starting and tank setup, that is often engine dependent. Why the mystery? What engine are we talking about? You're gonna get little to no useful help on this matter unless we have better details. Please tell us make and model of the engine.

2slow, that's backwards from how I understand your post. There is more energy per unit of gasoline than compared to either methanol or nitro. It is only after you take mixtures into account that methanol/nitro produces more power. Methanol/nitro will ultimately produce more power per cycle, but it only does so at mixtures much richer than gasoline, about 3 times richer depending upon blend. Gallon per gallon, gasoline has about twice the energy of a reasonable methanol/nitro blend. But the methanol/nitro blend burns about 3 times richer. Half the power but three times richer is a 50% gain. This means that methanol/nitro will produce about 50% more power per cycle in my crude example, yet gallon vs gallon, gas still has more energy. Maybe this is what you meant in you post.

Cheers.