NY loves MTBE also and FI cars can adjust but your gas mileage decreases.
WA and OR cars will make a farting sound :)
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F Sandhoff" <sandhoff@csus.edu>
To: "Marc Sayer" <marcsayer@home.com>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Runnin Outta Gas (going OT)
> Marc muses:
> > When I drive down to SoCal, my cars always run worse on CA gas
> > than they do on the OR gas. We get a different formulation up here.
>
> After driving our van to Nevada and fueling there (for 20 cents/gal LESS)
> and finding improved mileage for that tankful, I would surmise that yes
> indeed, California's love of oxygenates (MTBE mainly) is definitely
> having an adverse effect. I would think that modern FI would be less
> affected because of the O2 sensor being able to compensate, but maybe
> not.
>
> Our gas is somewhere over 8 percent oxygenates, I've been told. So
> in reality they're watering down our gas! (I remember a Holley tuning
> book explaining why going over 5 percent in a gasoline-jetted carb
> is a bad thing...) Of course, lots of other states now do it to...
>
> Be interesting to see what the out-of-state'rs experience is when they
> drive in for Shasta next month..
>
> -- John
> John F Sandhoff sandhoff@csus.edu Sacramento, CA
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