[DeTomaso] REAL Gas versus Crap

boyd casey boyd411 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 11:41:35 EDT 2011


I have been trying to find a gas station that sells gas with no ethanol
content. Do you know of any national brands that sell gas w/o ethanol. I
have a local station that sells race gas but at $10.00 per gallon it's a
little to rich for my blood.
Boyd

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Larry - Ohio Time Corp <
larry at ohiotimecorp.com> wrote:

> << still diesels at shut down about half the time>>
>
> The carb drop down solenoid from the 70's did a good job of stopping this.
> The plunger of the solenoid is the idle stop on the carb. When the key is
> turned off power to the solenoid is lost and allowing the butterfly valves
> in the carb close off the air to the motor.
>
> Larry (sometimes old is good) - Cleveland
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On
> Behalf Of michael at michaelshortt.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:59 PM
> To: Dave Londry
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] REAL Gas versus Crap
>
> Nah, this was in the Magnum R/T Hemi.
>
> PANTERA gets 93 octane plus 16 oz of 104 octane booster at every fill up
> and
> still diesels at shut down about half the time.
>
>  MICHAEL
> On Oct 27, 2011 7:51 PM, "Dave Londry" <davel at emspace.com> wrote:
>
> > You can run 87 and you have a 500hp+ build Michael??
> > What's the CR?
> > dave
> >
> >
> > On 27/10/2011 4:46 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com wrote:
> > > Finished off the tank of real 100% gas today.  RANGE was extended
> approx
> > 18
> > > miles and mileage by 1 mile per gallon.
> > > This was in town driving, no highway.
> > > It was 89 octane which is middle grade at 3.74 per gallon, crap middle
> > grade
> > > was 3.54, 87 is at 3.34 per gallon.
> > > So if I were to use middle grade all the time, the net effect is that
> the
> > > real gas is .15 cents per tank more expensive. Versus reg 87 octane
> gas,
> > it
> > > is about 4.00 per tank more expensive.
> > >
> > > As far as driving goes, way less hesitation, more torquey feeling at
> > > launch,  more responsive at speed for passing.
> > >
> > > So I filled it up again tonight with real gas.
> > >
> > > Michael Shortt
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