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Originally Posted by CSX 4039
What do you think is the best mixture of fuel to put in these beasts? (In my case, '66 427 FE bored and stroked with something like 11:1 compression ratio). In my case the purpose is not for racing, but rather for tooling around town (with occasional moments of showing off). 
50% aviation gas? (Someone told me "yes", someone else told me, "it's too dry- formulated for 30,000 feet altitude"- whatever that means) |
100LL general aviation fuel will probably cause a lean burn condition in your engine, which will cause all kinds of bad things to happen (obviously, you're probably not too worried about burning out a cat or an O2 sensor, but it really is made or airplanes). Also, it's got lead in it (more than racing fuel).
Jet fuel is diesel. Don't use that. It would be bad.
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Originally Posted by CSX 4039
50% racing gas? (How do you really know what's coming out of that 55 gallon drum- hell, it could be french fry oil- these guys know I'm not a regular nor a racer).
93 octane with 4 bottle of octane boost? (42 gal. tank)
Real Lead (can you still get that stuff?)
Copious amounts of Sta-bil?
What's the best bang for the (big) buck?
I suppose this has been discussed before, but I did a search but the number of times "gas" comes up is nearly infinite. |
The Meaning of Gas
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Originally Posted by Rick Parker
91 octane seems to be the max in sunny Calif.
Where is that 100 octane Chevron White pump? THAT was some GOOOOOD stuff!
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Competition 100 Unleaded Racing Gasoline
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Originally Posted by Jamo
Do you have a gas tank or are you running a fuel bladder?
The octane boosters will eat a bladder up over time...alcohol not good for the rubber.
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Neither is ethanol, which is what many companies are now adding to their gas. It eats rubber and plastic and makes the price of milk, corn and everything else go up. We should get rid of it completely and use Greeniehol: a
synthetic blend of tree hugger, global warming hoaxist and con man. It may not burn as well, but I know I'd feel better burning it.
Your pal,
Meat.