<VV> Lead in gasoline

[James Davis]

The tetraethyl lead was bad enough but the ethylene bromide add to 
the gas to keep the plugs from lead fowling really had a bad taste.
Jim Davis


At 11:08 AM 5/15/2006, 4carbcorvair wrote:
>Actually, I have a container of super concentrate lead additive that I
>picked up at Wal*Mart made by "CD-2".
>
>No, I'm not running it in the Corvair.
>
>"Lead (as used in gasoline) is highly toxic and cannot be safely "added"
>outside a gasoline refinery. Hence nobody ever offered it as an
>aftermarket additive. My brother is a (Master's level) chemist and used
>toluene (sp?) back in the '70's to boost the octane for his racing
>Bimmer.
>
>-Mark"
>
>
>--
>Ron Tinkham
>
>66 Corsa Convertable, 140, 4sp.
>Maine
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