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Offline Lozza

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Re: avgas over 98 fuel
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2012, 06:53:06 am »
Still  you make more HP with unleaded, ethanol blend fuels make more HP again. BP/Shell 102 fuels have been discontinued for some time now.Makes sense that 98octane fuel doesn't have a high a rating as 100 octane fuel.
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Offline Mike52

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Re: avgas over 98 fuel
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2012, 09:13:11 am »
If you put avgas in your IT125 then the advantages would be  pinging less and taking longer to wear out and that,s all , waste of money really.

If you were to put it in your 86/ 240 CR husky [ compression ratio 15/1] then you could expect a small hp rise and less pinging and it would take longer to wear out. You could also advance your timing giving more hp but kicking back and breaking foot/sidecase/kickstart bits.

The moral to my story is that avgas is good but you have to design your motor to take advantage of it's good points.

I still don't understand how you can use a fuel with less BTU's and get more out of it but that's another argument.

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« Last Edit: November 07, 2012, 09:15:05 am by Mike52 »
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