Add kerosene to your gas to stave off detonation & advance your timing now for more ponys!?!?
What's the OCTANE rating of Diesel?
It isn't rated in "octane", it is rated in "cetane". Diesels respond almost exactly the opposite to ign. engines, what causes detonation & pre-ignition in spark engines, reduces detonation in diesel engines.
We heated the showroom/waiting room at the private shop I worked at with 2 Kerosun heaters, everything ended up with a black, dingy film on it. Hardly "clean", and the "tax dyes" they put in it(red in the case of kerosene), started clogging up the cloth wicks. Pretty soon the edge of the wicks would burn-up & stopped working. Stop fishing for magic, home-brewing inappropriate fuels is not a solution, & can cause You a lot of grief for nothing.