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Subject: [Healeys] Fwd: Fw: Marvel Mystery Oil
From: austin.healey at gmail.com (Chris Dimmock)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:59:08 +1000
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Kees, With all due respect, E10, as I understand it,  is 10% ethanol.
i.e. 5 litres of ethanol in every 50 litre tank of petrol. In every tank full.
I'm sure at that level it would cause issues.

I said one cup of metho in one tank of avgas 110 octane - once a year.

And you have to use a Royal Doulton teacup. Proper British. ;-)

Heres an analogy - as much as i like a drink, I'm sure we can all see the
"health" differences between drinking 7 bottles of rum/scotch/ whatever every
time we fill our Healey with fuel; versus drinking 1/5 - 1/4 of a bottle once
a year!!
;-)
Chris
PS. It doesn't have to be Doulton. Any fine China will suffice. ;-)
Sent from my iPhone

On 25/04/2012, at 10:29 PM, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:

> Chris,
> It is not the running of the engine that is affected, but much more the side
affects of alcohol in petrol, like corrosion of aluminium alloys,
deterioration of rubber parts, loosening up dirt in tanks etc. I always hear
Yanks complaining about.
> I never have experienced any of those troubles at all when e.g. lead free
petrol ( 5% alcohol) was introduced in the 70's, apart from the odd fuel hose,
or in these days  when I use E10 in Germany in my Jensen Healey or every day
car.
> Kees Oudesluijs
>
>
> Op 25-4-2012 13:36, Chris Dimmock schreef:
>> Kees, half a cup of metho in 50 or 60 litres of 110 avgas is nothing like
running an engine originally designed for 100 octane leaded fuel, on 91 octane
E10
>> And that's imperial octane. Not US.
>> Sincerely.
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 25/04/2012, at 9:15 PM, Oudesluys<coudesluijs at chello.nl>  wrote:
>>
>>> Op 25-4-2012 12:56, Chris Dimmock schreef:
>>>>> And some metho. Metho absorbs water. Even though I have an alloy tank,
I
>>>> still put a cup of metho in every year. Absorbs water, which you don't
want in
>>>> your fuel tank!
>>>>>>  Methylated Spirits.
>>>>>>  Best
>>>>>>  Chris
>>>>>>
>>> And then you are all complaining about the modern fuels like E10!!!!! or
other petrol/alcohol mixtures what damage they can do.
>>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>> NL
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>> Dorpsstraat 183
>>> 2995XG
>>
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