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anais
 Post subject: fuel prices
PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:50 am 
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As fuel prices continue to soar along with concern for long-term availability of aviation 100LL, this is Lycoming's response. Lycoming Engines announced this week that it is working to get approval for the use of unleaded automotive gasoline for its standard-compression-ratio O-360 and IO-360 product lines. Incidentally, here in the bay area, 100LL is $6.20 gallon!
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tonycondon
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that would be huge, and prices of so equipped airplanes would inflate.

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cubaneight
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:51 am 
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Well, that would be a great improvement, for sure.

Just to give you a clue about the fuel prices in Europe (LOWK):
1 gallon of 100LL currently costs about $ 13...
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anais
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Thanks for the reality check there. We are still so fortunate, I guess fuel is even "cheap" here. :wink:
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ebrendan
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Note that's for the engine only; not the entire aircraft. Modifications may be required to the fuel tanks, lines, gaskets, or other parts of the fuel system.

Also, do you know if it can run with the 10% Ethanol additives that are causing people problems?
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anais
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:44 pm 
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This I don't know...but here's the link to the lycoming site-
http://www.lycoming.com/news-and-events ... -02-08.jsp
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Greg Bockelman
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:26 pm 
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It usually isn't the engine itself that has the issue with ethanol, it is the fuel system. Ethanol isn't compatible with some of the rubber components.

I believe the engine would run just fine on E10.
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anais
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:41 am 
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Ah, that makes sense. I'll see what I can find. :)
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