Originally Posted by fast75vega
Originally Posted by roadkill2
You're far better off buying and using racing gasoline of your octane choice. The quality is better and you always know what you're getting . . Thus your "Tune Up" is consistent . .
i really dont think that the quality of race fuel is better then the quality of someone 10k plus feet off the ground....lmao :wink:
Not being a wiseass or anything like that, but obviously you've never had a Private pilot's license and had to fuel up in Bumfuck, Egypt or some little airstrip in the middle of nowhere . . builds on the pucker factor . .
But you have to remember, a Connie 4 ain't much different from a Volkswagen and they're not to picky about what they burn . . A little higher compression generally so they need more octane, but the biggest concern is cleanliness, no water or dirt. And in the older ones, lead in the fuel . . for some reason some of the older Av powerplants don't take to the new anti-knock compounds used in Fuels . . There's a reason, just don't know what it is . .
Where it's stored and the chain of supply would be my main concern. Racing fuel, generally, comes from 55 gal drums and unless a partial drum sits for a while in the heat and cold, it's generally cleaner than AvGas that's been in a 3000 gal storage tank. But that's why we use filters . .
To each his own . . .