Av gas for 100 series cruiser

About tile some else agreed with me lol

Ah a fellow AME i see, Hows it going there Topend ? i assume you work with light aircraft / ga stuff ? . Myself - AME Mech heavy RPT ( a320 b767 b737 etc..) Unfortunately out of scene for a while (ansett) and working out and about. Whats the go up there at the moment, plenty of work or is it a bit slow..

I agree 100% on the avgas , unless you have a drag car running about 12:1 comp. and like overheating etc..

Cheers Brad.

Hi Brad,

I have experience on F-111 and F/A-18 aircraft and worked as a Tech Advisor on Blackhawks during Timor. I no longer work on aircraft as I had a complete change in career.

Topend.

Why would it damage internal components?

It doesnt hurt the planes engine components.

Sorry Go_offroad Im not a petro chemist.

I live in a community that has recently switched back to AVGAS after @15yrs?

The communities don't like it because they notice/oticed their cars dying quicker when running it. Which is why a lot of communities didn't go to AVGAS or swapped back to conventional fuels over time.

Our fuel supplier is not BP but BP were kind enough to donate their petro chemists time to studies relating to the use of AVGAS in standard engines as well as studies into the effects of AVGAS if it is cut or mixed with anything to aid ingestion.

I don't think you can really compare plane to car engines: altitude of use, :temperature of use, :compression ratios, : cylinders, : power outputs, I've got no real knowledge but they're the items I can think of that would explain differences.

Sorry hit the wrong button.

Anyway what I said previously about mixing AVGAS and the long term use etc is straight from BP's studies.

I thought the stuff would be good for my motorbike but they basically said how much do you like your bike? If you like it don't use it.

FWIW the community is back on AVGAS.

A pet engineer could never recommend for a vehicle designed to run on ulp, to run on a lead based product, as its against the law ;-)

Like I said, avgas is just an ultra refined and filtered good quality petroleum product.

Go_offroad i'm not sure if you're dead serious or not?

It is not illegal to sell Avgas in a community for the use in cars etc.

The studies had no reason to be biased in any way for or against the use. They had nothing to gain or lose as they don't sell the stuff here. They were merely sorting out the fact from ficiton so that the community could make their choice without the myths.

Basically no it's not good for your car old or new.

I am an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and what I have said above applys. The only problem you may get from prolonged use of Avgas is a build up of lead bromide. For the purpose of the original question, using a couple of tanks of Avgas to travel through a particular area will only damage the converter.

Topend

Slammin,
you may need to read my post afew more times to understand it.

I didnt say anyone was biased, and I didnt say they couldnt sell avgas.

Hi Ianmc, yeah I'm not that young or old but I do know that the leaded fuel made my motorbike run a lot better. It pings on unleaded so have always used the leaded and now the lead replacement or premium

Your point about the lead being good is correct, it actually helped the valves in those engines not harmed them but the lead content in AVGAS is so high, it is and has been against the law to use it in conventional car engines. Communitites have special dispensation to sell the stuff, by the way FWIW it's not always available.

The octane rating of AVGAS is higher than the old super and from what I remember I think that boost is simply from the lead. As I said in the above posts, I'm no expert but this info comes straight from BP's chemists. They also advised against running it in my 11.5 compression bike engine if I wanted it for longer than a good time....... I was expecting that it would be good for this sort of engine but nope.