Is this for real? Or pulling our legs on Friday?

>Vic - I used to pour water down my '74 van's Weber carb whilst revving
>the hell out of it to break up gunk on the valves/in the combustion
>chamber.  Once I got this water-cooled, FI, bastardized VW, though, it
>just wouldn't work!
>
>Did find out that, every six months, squirting 1-2 fifths of Everclear
>($12.70/fifth locally) through the quick-connect nipple my mechanic
>installed on the throttle valve housing on my '85 whilst revving the
>hell out it seems to have much better results than water in the old
>air-cooled!  Great clouds of particulate stuff flies out the exhaust,
>the van runs much better afterwards and I can stand 15-20 behind the van
>and feel those neat exhaust gas "pulses" in my face.
>
>Once a year, I dump a quart of kerosene into the sump and run it about
>100 miles up and down the highway at high speed and then change the oil
>& filter.  The filter averages about 10oz more in weight than during
>normal oil changes.
>
>BOB - WA4RRN
>'85GL - "BOURGEOIS"
>cpyrite1999