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RE: Octane

To: "gary baker" <lsr350@hotmail.com>, <scowle@mentorcollege.edu>,
Subject: RE: Octane
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:22:55 -0400
Nice well thought out choice of fuels.. When you hook up the rear tire it
might change the tune up so don't get too comfortable yet. You are not
makeing HP if the wheel is spinning or at least not loading the engine might
be a better choice of words. So if the engine is not fully loaded then the
BMEP has not reached it's final value ..yet. The engine will only see the
loads the vehicle puts on it. No traction no load.
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of gary baker
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:17 AM
> To: scowle@mentorcollege.edu; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Octane
>
> >Im using a N2O wet system ( motorcycle) and was advised to use a "high"
> >octane  fuel  I checked around and did some research  and found that an
> >aromatic hydrocarbon called Toluene has a very high octane
> rating  120+ RON
> >and was only $3 liter compaired to  $50 liter for 120+ racing
> leaded gas
> >in Australia  but I was told by the fuel supplier that it was
> also a "slow
> >" burn and as I did not have any means of retarding the timing
> when on the
> >nitrous I decided that this would be good allround  high octane and slow
> >burn  ( a chemical retard ?) my thoughts,so I used 100% toluene as my
> >secondary fuel  dont know if it worked that way , but I ran up
> to a 100HP
> >nitrous shot for 20-30 sec without retarding timing or damaging
> the motor
> >I was informed by others with far greater knowledge than myself  that
> >100hp+ 20sec would equal  lots of melted  stuff and lots of wheel spin
> >,well they got half of it right lol  so on face value this fuel
> worked for
> >me
> Gary






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