Re: Unfriendly Racing Gas Additives

["Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>]

With SCCA's stringent fuel regs -- and SCCA is not the only sanctioning body 
taking a hard line on fuel, and those making racing gas know it -- I'm 
skeptical of additives even being there to do such things. I'd be more 
suspicious of quality control of the floats themselves (also explaining why 
older ones are better).

We get so much aftermarket crap nowadays that cannot hold a candle to the 
original....

--Rocky Entriken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <BillDentin@aol.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:20 AM
Subject: Unfriendly Racing Gas Additives


> Amici:
>
> Three or four years ago, we were having a tremendous problem with leaky SU
> carb floats.  Six or eight failures in ten events.  We assumed it was some 
> new
> additive in the racing gas, which the solder in the floats did not like. 
> We
> also determined that an old float lasted longer than the new ones 
> available.
>
> The following year the problem seemed to go away, and we again assumed it 
> was
> a change in the racing gas.  Well, it may be back.  Bob Wismer is racing 
> down
> south, and in two events (Sebring and Moroso) he has had two leaky floats.
> Maybe the gremlin is back.  Worth watching for, anyway.
>
> Bill Dentinger