I hope anyone considering this is comfortable with the fact that they'd
be spewing lead into the atmosphere. Maybe you don't know any children...
Seriously, I have to protest this kind of thinking. Given what we know
now, there is no excuse for using leaded fuel, any more than there is for
using asbestos in classroom insulation. And there is no performance
rationale for using 104 octane fuel in a street MG, anyway, except for
ego gratification. I mean, get real -- who is running 12:1 compression?
Elliott DeGraff had this to say:
>You only need to add 1 gallon of 100LL avgas to a tankful of high test
>unleaded. The excess lead in the avgas will boost the unleaded to an
>acceptable level.
>
>Elliott DeGraff
>2 71Bs
>
>ATWEDITOR@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 5/18/00 1:02:13 PM, gb@the-bdc.com writes:
>>
>> << One day I hope to find someone who sells real 104 octane racing
>> fuel. I'll run a tank of that and see what happens. >>
>>
>> Here's what some racers used to do, not sure they still do this: Go to your
>> local general aviation airport with a 5-gallon can and have them fill it
with
>> Avgas. There used to be several higher octanes, but if my memory is correct
>> the common avgas is still 100 octane. Word when I used to work at airports
>> was that they just mixed the avgas with regular gas, as running pure would
>> burn the pistons. YMMV, and this is all hearsay.
>>
>> Jay Donoghue
>> 72B
>> 72B-GT
>> 66 Mustang
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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