Nav Fuel 104 octane

[david_h]

Read in a magazine about someone using this in their skyline, where in Gods name can I get hold of some.

[mondeoman]

Call any of the Petrol Companies research centres..... they can do just about anything you want, for a price..... 110 octane Sir, that'll be a pleasure Sir, £15 a litre Sir, certainly Sir......

[MikeGF]

David - Try the Skyline Register BBS on www.gtr.co.uk

>> Edited by MikeGF on Friday 28th June 11:56

[apache]

I used to put aviation gas in my old Kwack 400....'kin thing went like a scalded cat, inside of the tailpipe would be a nice dark grey instead of sooty black too, don't know what octane it was tho

[456mgt]

Can you buy it at airfields?

[MajorClanger]

quote:
I used to put aviation gas in my old Kwack 400....'kin thing went like a scalded cat, inside of the tailpipe would be a nice dark grey instead of sooty black too, don't know what octane it was tho

AvGas use to come in several main grades: 80/87, 91/96, 100/130, 108/135 and 115/145 (the numbers being lean and rich mixture octane ratings). This has been simplified to 100/130 and 100LL the LL refering to Low Lead (still too high for cat equipped cars). You probably had 100/130 or more likely 100 LL (can you remember what colour it was?) which has an octane level slightly over 100! The grey deposit might have been a lead deposit!!!

MC

[Guy Humpage]

www.76racing.co.uk claim to sell Racing Fuels upto '120+ octane'

[david_h]

Thanks guys, very helpful, will check out those links.
It's not an every day car so no probs with cost of fuel, plus I don't have a cat so that's even better.

[andytk]

Yeah I once hit upon the idea of running a car on avgas, providing you decatted it first. My main aim was to save dosh and avoid paying highwayman Browns ludicrous tax, but as it turned out avgas is just as costly as regular petrol. But you do get more octanes

Anyone in the aircraft flying game know what the current costs of avgas are??

Cheers
Andy