KRneter's, corrosion is a serious problem with Ethanol as is destruction of
rubber and Fiberglass components. This is real guys but the real serious
problem with Ethanol is water. Ethanol gulps up water at a hi rate and it
phase separates at altitude and temp. You don't get to choose where. A big
gulp of water turning on base or final will ruin your day. Don't do it guys
it isn't worth it. Some help fighting the Ethanol reg's would help. I can
tell you some horror stories about boats that loaded with ethanol and
rebuilt the engine and the boat. Also small engines that had the cylinders
and pistons corroded to seizure from ethanol in one season. They won't run
ethanol down the transport pipelines because it ruins there pump systems and
pipelines. Does it tell you something.
With a look at 92 clear it has thousands of gallons and hrs running
in GA aircraft and gives them a far better life span than 100LL. We sell
more 92 clear here than avgas. We are next door to a race track and sell
some of both to the racers. We used to sell mostly Avgas but we now sell
mostly MoGas. One guy told me he had them all beat as he had figured out the
ratio of MoGas to Avgas that let him beat them all, of course this was
confidential info. We are the only airport in Oregon (A mandatory ethanol
state) with 92 Clear MoGas. What a mess we have let our country become.
la...@lebanair.com
-----Original Message-----
From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf
Of Lee Parker
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 6:40 AM
To: KRnet
Subject: Re: KR> ethanol and the Ellison
I have a friend who has had several race cars. He said they tested the
100LL against 93 octane auto gas and the auto gas came out with more horse
power on the dynometer. He also said the auto fuel ran smoother and had
less problems with the valves after the engines were broken in. Embry
Riddle University did a test several years ago on Mogas and determined that
if you used auto fuel you could cut your maintainence cost signifiantly.
You can check the archives if you want to read about it. I tried Mogas in
my mooney and found that it also ran smoother. The only problem was PRC
fuel tank sealer won't hold up to auto gas. I have friends with
experimentals that have their fuel tanks sealed with Epoxy Novalac that run
the ethanol and so far have not had any problems. I think most of the
problems with auto fuel is the risk of vapor lock and fuel tank sealers.
--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Tim <t...@telus.net> wrote:
From: Tim <t...@telus.net>
Subject: Re: KR> ethanol and the Ellison
To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org
Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 8:01 AM
Precautions>>>>
http://www.fuel-testers.com/ethanol_engine_precautions.html
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