[Healeys] Gas and ethanol

john spaur jmsdarch at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jan 5 20:56:24 MST 2010


I don't recommend using avgas. I did for a while and found no 
benefit. My personal opinion is that it could harm the engine because 
they are not generally tuned for the avgas and it is formulated 
differently from automotive fuels.
John

At 11:12 AM 1/3/2010 +0100, Oudesluys wrote:
>Since your engines were designed to run on leaded petrol there 
>should be no problem at all running on aviation petrol.....
>Kees Oudesluijs
>
>
>Bob Spidell schreef:
>>Well, avgas doesn't have alcohol in it, if that's what you 
>>mean.  But, I think you'd have problems running exclusively on 
>>avgas, as it still has lots of lead in it....
>>bs


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