Thread: Fuel for engine
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Old 15-03-12, 15:31
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Originally Posted by mash101 View Post
Isn't that stuff also kerosene/parafin?? If so, I would have thought that would be about the last thing I would put into a petrol engine!
Avgas is for petrol piston engined aircraft, turbine engine (jet) fuel is kerosene based.

I used to run a 1959 Matchless G80CS scrambler on 110 octane Avgas after leaded fuel disappeared, purely because the motor was designed to run on leaded 105RON petrol which was available at the pumps in the UK in the 50s and 60s and Avgas was/is the nearest thing to it that's available now (and it's a lot cheaper than UL+additive too!).

Not sure why you'd want to do this on a modern bike engine with hardened valve seats and fuel injection designed to run on 95RON unleaded?