On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 AHSprite78@aol.com wrote:
> As my 2 year restoration comes to an end I was leafing through one of the many
> manuals that I have and noticed that they recomended the use of 100+ octane
> gas in performance engines and 94 octane for normal engines. What does
> everyone on the list run? Is the manual correct?
I have three MGs and a rice rocket.
The rice rocket, and the 70 MGB work fine on cheap 87
octane gas.
The 75 Midget requires high octane gasoline, or else
it runs on a little. Just enough to ruin the appeal
of driving up in a sharp little roadster.
"Hey mister nice car, wait a sec, DUCK IT'S GONNA
BLOW!"
(verdict is still out on the Magnette, need more miles)
--
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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