At 06:55 AM 11/19/99 -0800, jim williams wrote:
> I've talked to several machine shops about unleaded
>use. I have been told as the rpm approaches 3000 or if
>the engine is under heavy load there will be seat
>problems. ^^^^
I would suggest changing that to *may* be seat problems.
>In my opinion the reason a lot of the
>British car owners in American have not experienced
>major problems is because few of our cars are used in
>an every day high rpm commute. We, in many cases treat
>these cars as adult toys and use them in thay way.
That may be true now - but my experience with unleaded fuel
in a TR-3A contains about ten years of use when the TR-3A
was my only vehicle and for four of those years, I was
commuting from North Denver to Boulder, CO. I can assure you
that I was seeing over 3,000 rpm at high load for extended
periods of time. <grin> There are rumors that Amoco unleaded
was especially good for use in older cars (which was why I
used it), but my point is that there is plenty of (anecdotal)
evidence that unleaded fuel is not necessarily a problem
for our cars.
Cheers,
John Lye
'59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
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