Off Topic seven dollar gas.

Wow, that's more expensive than the 105 I can get down at Redrock Distributing. Nice thing about octane is it's fully mixable 1/2 tank of 93 and 1/2 tank of 91 = one tank of 92 and with 105 I can run the lower octane fuels and just throw in a gallon or two as needed to keep the fuel around 92.

Can't you run on 100 octane aviation fuel? It's between $3 and $4/gallon.

Navgas is leaded, and can ruin your engine unless it has no catalytic converter.

Works on ATVs and similar; /standard/ US price is $5.99 a gallon, and has been for some time.

only the unleaded, but yes.

Some places (probably here) it's illegal to put aviation gas in a car. "tax evasion" or something like that. Not that it stops folks from filling up a portable tank.

Then again some people I know that have farms don't exactly have a problem with using farm diesel in the daily driver.

Catch the latest silliness? They are planning on going after homebrew bio diesel for tax evasion. What's next, a tax on fry grease?

You cant just run 100 octane in any car though can you? At least not without mixing it.

Sure you could, you'd be wasting some money if your not over nine to one compression, but with the higher octane, comes stronger cleaners for the injectors, carbon deposits, and upper valve lubricants, without leaving ash residue. I use regular, until I need to do some high speed driving say up and over to Lost Wages. God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com

Too much octane really doesn't hurt anything, other than your pocketbook. High octane fuel burns slower than low octane, so if the engine is not in need of the octane, there can actually be a small power loss by using high octane fuel. The other concern is the lead. Many of the high octane fuels contain lead, and that will cause problems with the catalytic convertor, as well as some sensors.

Chris

abomb69 wrote:

Probably not, but it can, read on.

And that's the key. During WWII, some people had access to aviation fuel and found that many of the old "flat head" engines of the day would overheat on higher octane. The explanation I heard was the fuel charge burned for a for a longer period of time and in the very long stroke engines of the 1930s and 1940s, the cooling systems were unable to cope with any extra heat.

I lived in Florida during WWII and Arizona right afterward so we probably encountered more overheating problems that people in cooler climates.

From His Lardship, pontificating in another group:

"You must be stupid, if you think any of the cars pictured in this group have a catalytic converter."

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Which means /any/ automobile from 188x-2007.

So, I guess cat-converters just don't and never have existed, just like

After all, Llewdellen is never wrong. Just ask him.

One observation on gas prices, last summer a friend visited Turkey, he said gas was about $8.00 US.

The streets were choked with traffic and everybody drove, even in a much poorer economy than that of the US so I doubt there's ANY gas price that will do much to deter driving immediately.

I live in Phoenix, Arizona. Mass transit is inadequate for most people and the combinations of varying work hours, the non-centralized nature of the city and the need for a car on the job prevents much car pooling.

People HAVE to get to work and in a area of 14,000 sq. miles mass transit is pretty much impossible (so is bicycling!)

Excellent !!

Especially when I did not crosspost, which is not abuse anyway.

Oh, Llewdellen, you certainly have NSPs and ISPs all over the world ROTFLTAO-ing!

You should try doing stand-up comedy at Computer Shows.

Might even pay for some of your drugs.

Or booze.

Or boys.

You're losing control, you do know that, don't you?

Ben Franklin US Ambassador Of Love

Jesus H. Bowlegged Christ!

Can't you write ANYTHING that makes sense to anybody but you?

Guess not.

Wow, that's the same price as we get here for Super Unleaded. Well, $7.60 to be precise.

Dave

Yep, they need more refineries up there. Or create a car that runs on peat or real bad single malts. ;)

I was over in Italy last year and that was about what they were paying.

It doesn't seem to hurt so much when you pay by the liter, and don't look at the credit card receipt.

Saludos,

Earle

My Bronco came stock with a thirty six gallon tank. Usually my credit card purchases shut off before I'm full. God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com