But Doug, if you made a PERSONAL COMMITMENT to race gas, you could then
raise the compression ratio to 14:1, run 10 deg more advance, get into
O-ringed heads instead of head gaskets, rev to 12,000 rpm, upgrade your
car's cooling system, drive train, wheels and tires to absorb all that
newfound power, and do teardowns Saturday night rather than eating dinner.
THAT'S the true spirit of vintage racing!
At 01:48 PM 14/07/97 -0400, you wrote:
> Sniffing too much 114? Personally, I use 93 octane pump gas. I've
>tried
>high octane race gas and determined that it smelled a bit different, had a
>funny color and was much more expensive. Once I was out on the track, none
>of the above differences seemed to affect performance. My 850cc 4 - cyl.,
>twin cam has a compression ratio of about 10 or 10.5 to 1. It turns over
>10,000 rpm and it doesn't know the difference when it comes to race gas vs.
>pum
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