David:
As far as I am aware, leaded petrol is history here in the States. The
last place I saw it for sale was (of all places) California, and that was
several years ago. I have been running my unmodified '66 Austin-Healey
3000 BJ8 and '73 Midget on unleaded petrol for about 10 years now, with no
detectable change in performance. When I take them on the road, I usually
add a lead substitute to the tank with each fill-up, but otherwise just use
unleaded. Whenever I do an engine rebuild, I will install the
modifications for unleaded just because it will be convenient then, but not
because unleaded has cause me problems.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'66 BJ8 TARHEELY
'73 Midget "009"
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From: David Offer <daveo@moffatt.co.uk>
To: 'mgs@autox.team.net'
Subject: MGA Unleaded
Date: Monday, May 12, 1997 11:41 AM
My 1960 MK1 MGA was converted to unleaded last year, I use the car every
day for work in the summer and have had no problems with it. Just after I
had, had the car converted I heard that cars in New Zealand were catching
fire due to the hotter running of unleaded petrol. So I used to fill the
car with unleaded one week and leaded the next. I have had no problems in
doing so and no noticable difference in performance.
>Dave Offer
>1960 MGA
>E-mail DAVEO@MOFFATT.CO.UK
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