The last time I helped set the grid for a MCSCC race I could feel my
throat getting raw as the day went on. I felt sick for a day or two
after. I'm all for strict enforcement of fuel rules. Anyone who needs to
win so badly that they have to spend $30 a gallon on fuel and has no
regard for the health of the others around them has no right to compete
in racing of any kind! We have children at our races. I believe anyone
who is caught using dangerous fuels should be banned for life from our
club. I would rather die in a wreck than go nuts from a nerve disorder
brought on from bad gas.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bill Babcock
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:40 PM
To: 'Rocky Entriken'; BillDentin@aol.com; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Unfriendly Racing Gas Additives
Actually, the stringent fuel regs mean more weird additives, not less.
Most
low-octane pump gas products won't pass SCCA dialectric tests. The
simple
additives can't be used. The aim is to eliminate the highly toxic ones.
The
end result is all kinds of weird rocket fuel being used to get past the
test
and still deliver 105-plus octane or octane equivalent. Two years ago
when I
running a Radical in DSR, I got some stuff at Laguna (or maybe Sears)
that
smelled like shoe polish, and passed the test for SCCA a few weeks later
but
took on some of the color from my poly fuel can. Yikes.
Conversely, the stuff I got from Pacific Raceways when they first put
the
new big aboveground fuel tanks in looked and smelled like normal
gasoline,
and worked fine, but I had to wash my fuel cans out with Avgas and fill
and
pump Avgas through my fuel cell to get fuel to pass the dielectric test
after using it. About had me pulling my hair out. I got DQ'ed on an easy
win
from fuel testing after the race.
Bill Babcock
Babcock & Jenkins
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On
Behalf
Of Rocky Entriken
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:10 AM
To: BillDentin@aol.com; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Unfriendly Racing Gas Additives
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
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