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Re: gasoline questions

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: gasoline questions
From: racery@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:11:15 +0000
It so depends on tuning, it's not funny...

The compression ratio on a stock 2L is low enough that it can be adjusted to 
run safely on 87 octane and it'll still run pretty well...
It's mostly timing, really...

Toby


> Does a 2000 engine require premium gas?  I would have thought so but my 
>engine 
> does not ping with regular gas.  Is this possibly doing any harm?  My 67 
> Mercedes would ping like a Jamaican steel drum on regular.






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