<VV> Re Leaded Gas

[Thesuperscribe at cs.com]

If you can buy 93-octane gasoline, count yourself lucky. Here in California, 
refiners supply only 91-octane gas. They arbitrarily reduced it about 10 years 
ago and no one with any clout complained. 

High-compression 'Vair engines will run on 91, but not overly well.

--Tom Berg
'64 Monza 110

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In a message dated 4/19/2005 5:17:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
kaczmarek at charter.net writes: 
> >rhino60 at direcway.com writes:
> >Hi... Just  bought a 180 Turbo 1966 Corsa and was wondering if a lead
> >additive should be added to the 93 octane I will probably put into the 
> >car. I live in
> >NY if that has any bearing on the subject.
> >>Thanks for any advice
> >Or, why not use toluene as an additive?  I vaguely recall it is 120 or so
> >octane.  Somewhere on the web is a formula for net octane vs. ratio of 
> >toluene to
> >93 octane fuel.
> >Snip
> >I thought lead was use in the gas to help the Valves from beating the 
> >seats
> >out of the heads.  Also some lubricating properties, not octane.
> >Nick Abellera
> >65 Monza V-6 in Progress