With regard to performance, Len, you should have also mentioned that you
received the award for best (smoothest) idle of all the Big Healeys at
the 2010 Rendezvous in Eugene, OR. Not too shabby now that I find out
you're running the cheapest gas findable. CONGRATS!
Bill Barnett
'53 BN1
'61 BT7
-- When I was younger, I could remember anything whether it had happened
or not. But now my facilities are decaying and soon I shall be so I
cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. - Mark Twain
On 4/30/2011 1:52 PM, Len and/or Marge Hartnett wrote:
> According to the fuel-testers.com site, California requires a label on
> the pump for ethanol presence. I stopped by my nearest gas station
> which recently converted from a USA station to a Shell station. There
> was a label on the pump that stated that the gasoline MAY contain
> ethanol. No percentage given. For further information, I was to
> check at the station office. The clerk had no idea whether there was
> ethanol in the gasoline or not. The only brochure he was able to
> provide concerned Shell's nitrogen enriched gasoline.
>
> Since I use the least expensive 87 octane gasoline I can find, further
> research will be required. I have only driven my car 52,719 miles
> since its one and only engine rebuild in 1992 so I will need to put a
> few more miles on it before I tear it down to see if any damage has
> been done as a result of my poor choices. ;-)
>
> I don't think performance has been affected. At the 2002
> International Meet at South Lake Tahoe, I was only two seconds slower
> than the class winner in the Autocross and in the quarter mile speed
> run, three 3000 MK IIIs were faster, all at 70 MPH. My speed was 69
> MPH. I'm sure it was due to a missed shift - or something. ;-) ;-)
>
> (The Other) Len
> Vacaville, CA, USA
> 1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Slechta"
> <mslechta at chartermi.net>
> To: "Greg Mandas" <gmandas at yahoo.com>; "john spaur"
> <jmsdarch at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: "healeys @autox.team.net" <healeys at autox.team.net>;
> <roadwarriordave at hotrmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 7:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Stainless Steel Fuel Tank for Big Healeys
>
>
>> Also, the
>> state requires that pumps with ethanol fuel must be labeled as such
>> (unlike
>> many other states). http://pure-gas.org/ &
>> http://www.fuel-testers.com/state_guide_ethanol_laws.html are very
>> helpful
>> guides if you can access them while traveling.
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