Here in Maine the roadster does ok on MBTE but the people make a
strange farting sound when it gets in their well water....
daveS
----- Original Message -----
From: datsunmike <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
To: John F Sandhoff <sandhoff@csus.edu>; Marc Sayer
<marcsayer@home.com>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Runnin Outta Gas (going OT)
> 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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