Author: "Mike Brewton" <coyotes6@...> Time: Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:30 pm PDT Link
I also have the 160 hp, and was wondering if you had any problems
with leaning or had to do anything different in the way you flew, I
was told it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a manifold pressure gauge,
and to not use the auto gas until I was at altitude and throttled
back some, also was told to MAKE SURE THERE WAS NO ALCOHOL.
Thanks,...Mike
--- In RV-6and6A@yahoogroups.com, "James E. Clark" <jclark@c...>
wrote:
> Our 160 HP O-320 (and a friend's 180 HP O-360) have successfully
used
> PREMIUM, high quality, autogas with no problems so far.
>
> When it was done the **RULE** was ... "take off and land on the
*right*
> tank. AVGAS was *always* put in the right tank and the autogas in
the left
> tank.
>
> NOT and endorsement. Your mileage may vary. May not apply to your
plane.
> etc. etc. etc.
>
> James
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Brewton [mailto:coyotes6@p...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:17 PM
> > To: RV-6and6A@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [RV-6/6A] Auto fuel
> > I have an rv-6a with a 0320 and was told that I could use 91 oct,
> > auto fuel in one tank as long as I used avgas to take off and
land,
> > is this true? avgas is 2.74 a gallon, and auto gas is 2.11.
> >
> > Has anybody else done this?
> >
> > Thanks,...Mike
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Author: "James E. Clark" <jclark@...> Time: Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:56 pm PDT Link
Actually, I removed a sentence at the end that said that we have not been
using it recently. My partner was more "into" giving it a try than I was and
she probably figured she had better things to do that haul gas cans to top
the tanks. I always top off with AVgas.
There was no change in how we flew OTHER THAN making sure to take off and
land on the RIGHT tank (with AVgas).
We seem to have some issues with leaning but that is NOT related to autogas
as it has always been there as something that was not quite as expected.
We do have a manifold pressure gauge but I am curious ... what was the
connection to autogas??
Don't know if we ever got anything with alchohol or not. Never took the time
to test it.
James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Brewton [mailto:coyotes6@p...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:31 AM
> To: RV-6and6A@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [RV-6/6A] Auto fuel James Clark
> I also have the 160 hp, and was wondering if you had any problems
> with leaning or had to do anything different in the way you flew, I
> was told it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a manifold pressure gauge,
> and to not use the auto gas until I was at altitude and throttled
> back some, also was told to MAKE SURE THERE WAS NO ALCOHOL.
>
> Thanks,...Mike
>
> --- In RV-6and6A@yahoogroups.com, "James E. Clark" <jclark@c...>
> wrote:
> > Our 160 HP O-320 (and a friend's 180 HP O-360) have successfully
> used
> > PREMIUM, high quality, autogas with no problems so far.
> >
> > When it was done the **RULE** was ... "take off and land on the
> *right*
> > tank. AVGAS was *always* put in the right tank and the autogas in
> the left
> > tank.
> >
> > NOT and endorsement. Your mileage may vary. May not apply to your
> plane.
> > etc. etc. etc.
> >
> > James
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mike Brewton [mailto:coyotes6@p...]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:17 PM
> > > To: RV-6and6A@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [RV-6/6A] Auto fuel
> > > I have an rv-6a with a 0320 and was told that I could use 91 oct,
> > > auto fuel in one tank as long as I used avgas to take off and
> land,
> > > is this true? avgas is 2.74 a gallon, and auto gas is 2.11.
> > >
> > > Has anybody else done this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,...Mike
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> > > RV-6and6A-unsubscribe@egroups.com
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