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Re: Fuel

To: "mark holbrook" <rolling_rock_12@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fuel
From: "Graham Stretch" <technical@iwnet.screaming.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:14:27 +0100
Hi Mark
94?94! the 2000, 2500 2.5PI are all supposed to be fed with 100 or *****(5
Star UK not a swearword!)

Graham.
2500PI MKII
Sprinted Dolomite
2000 MKI
Toledo
1300 Front Wheel Drive
http://members.tripod.co.uk/TriumphIW/index.html

----- Original Message -----
From: mark holbrook <rolling_rock_12@yahoo.com>
To: john donohoe <gt6driver@yahoo.com>
Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fuel


>
> I think this is too high.  Anything over about 94 or
> so is not needed.  Sure it will help clean out the
> engine if you use it a couple times, but I don't see
> any advantages on a stock engine.  Now when you decide
> to to some head work and other fun stuff, this would
> be a good idea to stop the chance of pinging.  Im not
> sure what the comp. ratio is on the spits, but my GT6
> is about 9.75 and 94 octance is what I use.  When you
> get into the 12 to 1 ratios go get this great gas,
> until then, save your money.
> Mark Holbrook
> 1969 GT6 Convertable
> --- john donohoe <gt6driver@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've wondered the same about the 108 octane race
> > fuel
> > available at my local svc station... If it didn't
> > kill
> > my engine, I'm afraid it would be addictive! (it's
> > like 4.50 a gallon)
> >
> > John Donohoe
> > '70 GT6+ KC 81718
> > (wouldn't know what to do with anything over 92
> > octane!)
> >
> > --- Craig Smith <CraigS@iewc.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was tooling around this weekend in my 71 and I
> > was
> > > at a parking lot of a
> > > local adult beverage seller when a fellow came up
> > in
> > > a custom crotch rocket.
> > > I think it used to be a Kawasaki, anyway, the
> > > exhaust smelled a little funny
> > > so after he shut it off and the ground quite
> > > shacking I asked him if was
> > > burning Methanol. He said it was aviation fuel !
> > 140
> > > Octane, he buys it at
> > > the local private airport, this caused me to
> > > think,,, what would a couple
> > > gallons of that do in our 8 gallon tanks to the
> > > heads and valves or our
> > > spits ?
> > >
> > > I would think it would burn very well if it didn't
> > > burn the tips off the
> > > plugs or worse burn the valves clean out of the
> > > head.
> > >
> > >
> > > Craig Smith
> > > 36 Pelham Ridge Drive
> > > Greenville, SC 29615
> > > 800/692-2323 ext. 2105
> > > 864/234-1020 fax
> > > e-mail: craigs@iewc.com
> > >
> >
> >
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> =====
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>
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