Wow! That really is NOT reassuring news!
Think I'll stick with my VP. Thanks for the examples.
In a pinch, someone gave me a mix of Torco and something else last year that
was supposed to beat the test, but "fortunately" my car broke and I never
had to use it. I was leery of it anyway. Gave it away to the guy who mows my
lawn.
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Rocky Entriken'" <rocky@tri.net>; <BillDentin@aol.com>;
<fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:40 PM
Subject: RE: Unfriendly Racing Gas Additives
> Actually, the stringent fuel regs mean more weird additives, not less.
> Most
> low-octane pump gas products won't pass SCCA dialectric tests. The simple
> additives can't be used. The aim is to eliminate the highly toxic ones.
> The
> end result is all kinds of weird rocket fuel being used to get past the
> test
> and still deliver 105-plus octane or octane equivalent. Two years ago when
> I
> running a Radical in DSR, I got some stuff at Laguna (or maybe Sears) that
> smelled like shoe polish, and passed the test for SCCA a few weeks later
> but
> took on some of the color from my poly fuel can. Yikes.
>
> Conversely, the stuff I got from Pacific Raceways when they first put the
> new big aboveground fuel tanks in looked and smelled like normal gasoline,
> and worked fine, but I had to wash my fuel cans out with Avgas and fill
> and
> pump Avgas through my fuel cell to get fuel to pass the dielectric test
> after using it. About had me pulling my hair out. I got DQ'ed on an easy
> win
> from fuel testing after the race.
>
> Bill Babcock
> Babcock & Jenkins
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Rocky Entriken
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:10 AM
> To: BillDentin@aol.com; fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Unfriendly Racing Gas Additives
>
> With SCCA's stringent fuel regs -- and SCCA is not the only sanctioning
> body
> taking a hard line on fuel, and those making racing gas know it -- I'm
> skeptical of additives even being there to do such things. I'd be more
> suspicious of quality control of the floats themselves (also explaining
> why
> older ones are better).
>
> We get so much aftermarket crap nowadays that cannot hold a candle to the
> original....
>
> --Rocky Entriken
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BillDentin@aol.com>
> To: <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:20 AM
> Subject: Unfriendly Racing Gas Additives
>
>
>> Amici:
>>
>> Three or four years ago, we were having a tremendous problem with leaky
>> SU
>> carb floats. Six or eight failures in ten events. We assumed it was
>> some
>
>> new
>> additive in the racing gas, which the solder in the floats did not like.
>> We
>> also determined that an old float lasted longer than the new ones
>> available.
>>
>> The following year the problem seemed to go away, and we again assumed it
>> was
>> a change in the racing gas. Well, it may be back. Bob Wismer is racing
>> down
>> south, and in two events (Sebring and Moroso) he has had two leaky
>> floats.
>> Maybe the gremlin is back. Worth watching for, anyway.
>>
>> Bill Dentinger
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