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- Newsgroups: rec.aviation.owning
- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!mgc
- From: mgc@unislc.uucp (Marc Christensen)
- Subject: Re: 80 Octane engines on 100LL
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- References: <1992Nov23.151543.15479@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.204104.28989@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:41:04 GMT
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- Mark Allen Conover (conover@nuchat.sccsi.com) wrote:
- : I am beginning to do the ground work for the eventual purchase of an
- : airplane. Most of the aircraft in my price range were manufactured in the
- : 1960's and early 1970's, when 80 octane fuel was (apparently) the norm.
- :
- : My question: How well do these older planes' engines operate with 100 octane
- : fuel? I have heard of "lead fouling". How serious is this?
- :
- I flew one 152 rental that had a REAL problem with lead foulding It happend
- every couple of hours.
-
- In about 180 hours on my 150 I have not had a fouled plug yet.
-
- If your engine use 80 octane you can probably find get an STC.
- auto fuel STC's are cheap and Auto fuel can be half the cost of 100ll.
-
- Auto Fuel flames will be ignored.
-
- Marc Christensen
-