[Healeys] Gas and ethanol

Bob Spidell bspidell at comcast.net
Tue Jan 5 21:54:34 MST 2010


The latest _British Motoring_ from Moss Motors has a fairly informative 
article on alcohol in gas. 


bs



john spaur wrote:
> I don't recommend using avgas. I did for a while and found no benefit. 
> My personal opinion is that it could harm the engine because they are 
> not generally tuned for the avgas and it is formulated differently 
> from automotive fuels.
> John
>
> At 11:12 AM 1/3/2010 +0100, Oudesluys wrote:
>> Since your engines were designed to run on leaded petrol there should 
>> be no problem at all running on aviation petrol.....
>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>
>>
>> Bob Spidell schreef:
>>> Well, avgas doesn't have alcohol in it, if that's what you mean.  
>>> But, I think you'd have problems running exclusively on avgas, as it 
>>> still has lots of lead in it....
>>> bs
>
>
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