REFLECTOR: 100LL in my car?

[Brian Michalk]

Interesting about O2, and I forgot about that.
There are some experimental av guys that were going closed loop air/fuel 
ratios with 100LL using an O2 sensor.

They could get 100 hours or so out of a sensor if it was kept out of the 
hot exhaust stream.  I think it was mostly an offset boss that kept it 
out of the main exhaust flow.

nmflyer1 at aol.com wrote:
> Doug,
>
> First, What kind of car?  The big problem with burning leaded fuel in 
> a newer car is that it ruins the Oxygen sensor. The newer gen-2 
> sensors are a bit more forgiving, but they will still trash an O-2 
> sensor in a tank or so.
>
> If you don't have any O-2 sensors, you might be able to get away with 
> burning a tank or so of 100LL without toasting a converter, but I 
> wouldn't do more than that.
>
> If you have a "good Ole Car", without all that extra pollution control 
> crap... it will run just fine. Of course you have to be sure not to 
> hit any of those environmentalist tree huggers hiding in the shrubs. 
> They won't like that at all :)
>
> Kurt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Holub <douglas.holub at gmail.com>
> To: reflector at tvbf.org
> Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:33 am
> Subject: REFLECTOR: 100LL in my car?
>
> Can I burn 100LL in my car? I remember hearing once that lead in the 
> fuel can damage the catalytic converter.
>  
> Doug Holub
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