Anyone ever used aviation fuel in their Spyder?

[R FUN]

Av gas is great for when you put Spyder or any other engine is storage. Wont go bad like auto pump gas. Can not see any advantage using it all the time, could do more harm than good and very expensive here.

Roger

 

[ARtraveler]

Please turn to page 241 in your Hymnals.....The Fight Is On...The trumpet sound is ringing out.... :joke:



Aside: Back in the 60's, a wise acre church pianist used the song as the wedding march during a wedding. The congregation caught on and it left everyone in stiches. So much for decorum at a church wedding. Back to the original program>

 

[Mad Mac]

Our engines are designed to run on 10% ethanol, any more and hoses, gaskets, sensors, start to fail, period. The snowmobile/motorcycle/recreational vehicle industry, has always been against the ethanol thing due to the fact ethanol attracts moisture over time. Corn farmers love ethanol because the gov. subsidizes them and they make serious money from the deal. When was the last time you seen a tractor that was over 3yrs. old in a field? Biiiig money folks. Yeh, it saves our petroleum reserves and keeps the gov. from soaking us with $5.00 per gallon gas or possibly more, for that matter. But ethanol gas is CRAP! from a performance point of view. You might pay less per gallon for E85 fuel, but you get half the MPG out of it also. So where is the benefit?? OH JMHO. Mac:banghead:

 

[Bob Denman]

FOR THE RECORD:
My Silverado took about a twenty percent drop in fuel economy; while running on E-85.

Nowhere near a fifty percent drop...

 

[Lew L]

My ignore list just grew again.

 

[Easy Rider]

Our engines are designed to run on 10% ethanol, any more and hoses, gaskets, sensors, start to fail, period.

And the sky is falling too. :yikes:

I just read through my manual; '17 RT, and it does NOT say that E15 will be bad for your engine. It says to not use it because it is not Government approved....yet.

It does say to not use E85 and to NOT experiment with other concentrations.

So it appears to me that the newer models at least ARE designed to be used safely with E15.......if and when it becomes legally available.

My Toyota says E15 is fine, right on the gas cap.

 

[RudyB]

Re Octane rating

It doesn't really matter - WHY you would want to do this. But I'm 99.99% certain that AV gas is a much higher Octane level.....In fact it's a lot higher than the Spyder is designed to be able to use....... So if it's NO benefit to use it in the Spyder because the Spyder is designed for 93 octane ( in current models ) why would a person want to double or triple the cost of the gas. The Spyder will burn it but so will a campfire and have about the same effect .................... just sayin ...... Mike :thumbup:

According to Manual 87 minimum for 1330��