[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #1036

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's right. 91 octane is the highest you can get in CA. Also our gas 
has an oxygenator in it called MTBE (Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether) which 
is a wonderful additive designed to lower gas milage and eat the rubber 
in fuel systems. The legislature voted to remove MTBE from the gas in 
1999, and the final deadline for the removal of this crap is 12/31/03 - 
I.E. next week, but most refiners won't make it.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'



On Dec 23, 2003, at 7:24 AM, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:19:48 EST
> From: CLeopold@domain.elided
> Subject: [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #1035
>
> Re:   Stefano Iachella" <iachella@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] re: Quality of gas -- anybody use lower octane?
>          I live in New Jersey and often wish I were in California, 
> where
> there seem to be a lot more Alfa restorers and repair 
> facilities.....but a cause
> for concern:   Did I take it correctly that in Calif. you can only get 
> maximum
> 91 octane gas?   I have increased the compression rtion on my Spider 
> to about
> 10:1 and need at least 93 octane  (here in NJ Sunoco can get up to 94 
> octane)?
> - -Clay Leopold
> 84 Spider
> Princeton, NJ
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