Re: 87 octane

Posted by David Sherman on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 at 5:25PM :

In Reply to: no lead fuel ?? posted by cliff on Monday, April 23, 2001 at 6:40PM :

I have an old engineer's manual from about 1940 that refers to 87 octane as "fighting grade aviation gas", the best there was. Regular gas was 60 or so.

Follow Ups: Don't forget Octane was calculated diffrently back then NTXT - Allen Patnode 5:41PM 04/24/2001 Re: Don't forget Octane was calculated diffrently back then NTXT - David Sherman 10:56AM 04/25/2001 Re: Don't forget Octane was calculated diffrently back then NTXT - Ken in CO 10:18AM 04/26/2001 Re: Unless it's a ratio... - Tim Way 2:06PM 04/26/2001 Re: Don't forget Octane was calculated diffrently back then NTXT - Howard 4:28PM 04/25/2001 The same calculation - RDavis 8:43AM 04/27/2001 Post a Followup Name: E-Mail: Subject: Message: Optional Link URL: Title: Optional Image Link URL: This board is powered by the Mr. Fong Device from Cyberarmy.com