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AVGAS -NOT (again)
In a message dated 96-03-29 03:25:16 EST, you write:
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>Avgas is high octane gasoline and will do pretty well in your gasoline
>engine. It's been so long since I bought any that I couldn't even begin to
>guess the price. It comes in two main flavors, 80 octane and 100 octane. I
>seem to recall another higher octane rating also, but it's been so long I'm
>kinda fuzzy on it. I'm not sure, but I believe the octane ratings here are
>arrived at differently from the ratings at your corner gas station. 80
>octane avgas is pretty good stuff. It's also probably illegal to put it in
>your car. Highway fuel taxes, etc. :-(
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.... HELLO, DO NOT USE AVGAS IN YOUR Q..... The availability of fuel pumps
for q's will becum scarce.... AVGAS does not have the conditioning additives
that keep the fuel pump from burning up.... It will happen in less than a
day, NJTH, had a fellow racer try it and found out the hard way in a single
race.....
Scott