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Gene Kearns wrote:
I was kinda amazed to pull up at a pump in SC and find (along with the
usual 87, 89, and 83) "racing fuel" at 100 octane!

Is this a trend?

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Being in racing country, around here in GA there are quite a few places
where you can get it.

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Gene Kearns wrote:
On 15 Aug 2006 13:09:26 -0700, basskisser penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


Gene Kearns wrote:
I was kinda amazed to pull up at a pump in SC and find (along with the
usual 87, 89, and 83) "racing fuel" at 100 octane!

Is this a trend?

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepage
http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/

Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide
http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats

Being in racing country, around here in GA there are quite a few places
where you can get it.

Here, most of the guys buy 100LL at the airport. Better fuel with
anti-detonation characteristics......

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Here, especially out near the local race tracks, you'll find 100 at
regular, usually independent little gas stations.

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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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Here, most of the guys buy 100LL at the airport. Better fuel with
anti-detonation characteristics......



Gene, is 100LL lead free or does the "LL" stand for low lead? Reason I
ask is that I want to try a 50/50 or 25/75 mixture of 93 and 100 octane in a
car, but it has a very expensive to replace cat on it that leaded fuel would
quickly destroy.

I could get the 100LL over at the small airport I occasionally fly at.

Seems to me that the 100 octane "blue" aviation fuel was leaded, but I don't
know about 100LL.

Eisboch

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Eisboch wrote:
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...


Here, most of the guys buy 100LL at the airport. Better fuel with
anti-detonation characteristics......



Gene, is 100LL lead free or does the "LL" stand for low lead? Reason I
ask is that I want to try a 50/50 or 25/75 mixture of 93 and 100 octane in a
car, but it has a very expensive to replace cat on it that leaded fuel would
quickly destroy.

I could get the 100LL over at the small airport I occasionally fly at.

Seems to me that the 100 octane "blue" aviation fuel was leaded, but I don't
know about 100LL.

Eisboch

100LL is low lead aviation gasoline. :
http://tinyurl.com/em7ss

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"Eisboch" wrote in message
Seems to me that the 100 octane "blue" aviation fuel was leaded, but I
don't know about 100LL.


The 100LL is leaded gas and is dyed blue.

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"John Wentworth" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
Seems to me that the 100 octane "blue" aviation fuel was leaded, but I
don't know about 100LL.


The 100LL is leaded gas and is dyed blue.


That's what I thought. So, 100LL is the same as 100 blue.

I heard that some of the newer engines were designed to run on 100 octane
unleaded, but I've never seen one.

Eisboch

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"John Wentworth" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
Seems to me that the 100 octane "blue" aviation fuel was leaded, but I
don't know about 100LL.


The 100LL is leaded gas and is dyed blue.


I am out of date.

The last time I flew, I rented a new 172 Cessna that was fuel injected. It
really was nice compared to the older, carbureted 152s and 172s that I
learned on. Do the new, fuel injected ones run on unleaded?

Eisboch

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John Wentworth wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
Seems to me that the 100 octane "blue" aviation fuel was leaded, but I
don't know about 100LL.


The 100LL is leaded gas and is dyed blue.

It is leaded, but it is low lead.