[Healeys] fuel gallon marks by observation

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 04:21:30 MST 2007


Yes but you all forget the standard BJ8 in theory put out 150 bhp
according to the factory but 150 less 10% was probably more like it.
Same with the gas tank!


On 11/14/07, John Harper <ah at jharper.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I have not read all the details on this subject so maybe I have missed
> it but I have not seen anything written that recognises that British
> Imperial gallons are not the same as US gallons
>
>         1 liquid US gallon      = 0.833 imperial gallon
>
> The fuel tanks would have been defined in imperial gallons and therefore
> a nominal 12 gallon Austin-Healey tank would in theory hold 14.4 US
> gallons
>
> Regards
>
> >
> >
> >>> 2 Gal        15/16"
> >>> 4 G           1-7/8"
> >>> 6 G           2-9/16"
> >>> 8 G           3-15/16"
> >>> 10 G         4"
> >>> 12 G         5-1/8"
> >>> 13.75 G   6-3/4"
> >>>
> >
> >There appears to be an error in the above data. Going from 8 G (3-15-16")
> to
> >10 G (4") is only 1/16" change.
> >Gary Hodson
> >
>
> --
> John Harper
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Alan

'52 A90
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