KR> Re Alcohol in Fuel

2008-10-12 Thread Dann Johnson
Ethel Alcohol is a good solvent, but not a super solvent, perhaps not as good a solvent as gasolene itself. I was a bio major in college, with a chem minor... just 8 hours worth ofp chem short of a major. Organic Chemistry is wonderful stuff. My 50 cent opinion is that mo

KR> Re Alcohol in Fuel

2008-10-12 Thread D F Lively
Dan: I think the FAA stand agaist ethynol fuel blends has more to 'Vapor Pressure" concerns causing a "Vapor Lock" problem in the air than anything else. Most cars built in the last 15 or 20 years have elastomeric fuel system components that were designed to handle ethynol so it generally is n

KR> Re Alcohol in Fuel

2008-10-12 Thread Brant Hollensbe
There some big problems when you start to compare the operation of a car engine to a airplane engine. The operating enviroment, the loads the engine has to substain, even the material the fuel tanks are made of are different. Around 1972, the auto makers began to design their engines to use a

KR> Re Alcohol in Fuel

2008-10-12 Thread D F Lively
Brent: FAA regs prohibit use of alcohol in faircraft and even stipulate in their STC's that fact. Don Lively Burlington, IA Brant Hollensbe wrote: > There some big problems when you start to compare the operation of a ca