[Healeys] Stainless Steel Fuel Tank for Big Healeys

Oudesluys coudesluijs at chello.nl
Sun May 1 02:20:33 MDT 2011


In the Netherlands there are only 2 or 3 refineries. ALL brands big and 
small get their fuel from these. It even goes as far as trucks from 
Shell, Esso, Texaco, BP etc supplying other brands or each other. 
Supposedly the "specially formulated and branded"  dopes are added after 
the fuel has been loaded, Yeah.
Differences in the various brands? My foot!!
I do not expect it to be very much different in any country across the 
globe.
Any of you really had a proven problem because of modern fuel, other 
than dissolved coatings and rubber hoses causing some blockages and 
gumming up?
Premium fuel? It is a lot more expensive. Results? Negative. Not even 
the real octane rating is higher. Sometimes I even doubt if the product 
at the pump is different. So keep your money in the pocket and use the 
regular fuel. If your engine really requires high octane fuel, get real 
tetra ethyl lead from a can and add to your fuel or get the special 
racing formulated fuel if you can.
I have never had any problems with the cheapest brand fuel I could find 
in any of my cars since the mid sixties when I started driving. When 
leaded 98-100 octane (EU) fuel was phased out I had to retard some but 
not all of the ignitions of the older cars, that was all.
Kees Oudesluijs

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