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leaded fuel is economic compared to unleaded because more distance is covered with leaded than unleaded
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How do you tell difference between leaded and unleaded petrol in a can?
I don't think there is a way to visually tell the difference between leaded and unleaded fuel. However, leaded gasoline has become "extinct" and it is more likely that you have unleaded gasoline in the can.
Does a 1973 Beetle take regular or unleaded fuel?
The car was designed for Leaded fuel (i assume that that's "regular") but you can use Unleaded if you also use some "Lead replacement upper cylinder lubricant" whenever you add more fuel.
Leaded or unleaded gas for 1980 GL1100 Honda Goldwing?
Hi, I would like to know this as well, anybody out there know I think it will run on unleaded. I don't think they make leaded gas any more unless you buy the additive.
If I put in unleaded gas into a 2004 Volkswagen Jetta VR6 would that severely damage the car?
No. It requires unleaded. If you put in leaded the only thing it would hurt was the catalytic converter. There is no on-highway leaded gas anymore--it's illegal to sell it. Aviation gasoline is leaded, as is racing fuel, but not road gas. The VR6 has two knock sensors on it. Knock, which is caused by running too low octane, trashes engines, and the knock sensors are there to retard the spark and get rid of knock. You won't hurt the engine by putting regular unleaded in it, but it won't run as well as it could with more-expensive gas in it.
When there was leaded gas why did it cost less when the lead had to be added and unleaded was higher when it came unleaded in the first place?
At first glance, it doesn't make any sense at all.But when you look at it overall, it makes perfect sense.Engine development and gasoline development go hand-in-hand: if you can't get good fuel that doesn't cause knock when it's burned, you can't make powerful engines. Knock tears engines apart.The people who make engines figured out how to make engines that require gas with high resistance to knock faster than the people who make gas figured out how to make that fuel. Enter a man named Thomas Midgley, who learned how to make lead soluble in gasoline. This "tetraethyl lead" (so called because there are four ethyl groups surrounding each lead atom) came packaged with lead scavengers to keep the lead from accumulating in the engine, and when added to fuel it made the antiknock index go up faster, and cheaper, than it would have by just using petroleum distillates. Gasoline that's SUPPOSED to have lead in it is about 60 octane before they put the lead in it.Later, the oil refiners learned to make high-quality chemicals from oil. They could have used these chemicals to make unleaded gas that won't tear your engine apart, but there's more profit in specialty chemicals than in gasoline.So...the answer to your question is, "unleaded gas contains more costly ingredients than leaded gas did, so it needs to be more expensive."AnswerWhen leaded gas was first introduced, you were getting something extra that cost more to produce, so leaded gas cost more. When the government started requiring non-leaded fuel almost all fuel being produced contained lead. The regulations were so strict that if leaded gasoline had ever been in a tank no unleaded gas could be stored in that tank. So, in order to produce unleaded gas the whole refining, transportation, and delivery system had to be duplicated. Another answer is: unleaded was something Americans introduced along with catalytic converters in the 1970's. Europeans and the rest of the world's countries didn't use any other standard gasoline than leaded until mid-1980. It was still standard well up in to the 90's. USA banned leaded gasoline in 1986. In Europe unleaded was unusual. Most cars could run on unleaded, but it was recommended use leaded to get higher octance rating and less engine wear. Some people cared for the environment themselves and used unleaded or even bought a car with a catalytic converter. Therefore the demand for leaded, which was standard everywhere, but in USA, was still high.Not all European stations had unleaded until mid or late 1990. Some European governments increased taxes on leaded gasoline and later made catalytic converters a requirement for new cars to enforce unleaded use of gasoline. In the late 1990's, most European service stations had added potassium as a lead-substitute, but this is also being phased out.
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you talking about e85 or leaded fuel leaded fuel can be bought at most small airports that's where i have to buy fuel for my Trans AM it about $2.00 - $3.00 more a gallon but i need the high octain e85 can be bought most gas stations
What is in 110 racing fuel?
A gasoline with an octane of 110. Most of the time - leaded. In a racing engine this allows you to make significantly more power.
If you put super unleaded in a base coupe v6 mustang will you damage your car?
Super unleaded fuel won't damage the engine. The engine doesn't need super unleaded so all you're doing is wasting money to buy more expensive fuel. Some argue that the super unleaded fuels tend to have better additives packages...that might be worth considering if you want to justify running super unleaded.
What are the effects of using leaded or unleaded petrol?
The answer is very obvious. Before 1975 cars used leaded fuel which burned at lower temperature and didn't have cat converters in the exhaust. This also formed a lubricating layer within the cylinders as lead turns to liquid at low heat temps, but as everyone knows, lead is bad for the environment and is very toxic to anything living, and even today the highest levels of lead in the ground (and this is true all over the world) is along sides of roads and highways that were around before 1975 as the leaded gas fumes settled along the roadsides, and that's thousands and thousands of miles worth. After 1975 cars burned unleaded gas which meant that the engines all had to be redesigned with different metals as unleaded gas burns much hotter (old cars use to run at about 160 degrees to 180, but new cars run at 200 to 210), and if you used unleaded gas in a car the needed leaded, it would burn much hotter and fry the engine,. The same is true in reverse. Put leaded in a car the requires unleaded and you now have an engine that's loaded up with carbon, and a clogged cat converter that will not allow your engine to run more and more as it builds up in the cat until it will not even start because it can't eject any exhaust. It's like stuffing potato's in your exhaust and then trying to start your car. The result of all the gas fumes building up in the exhaust will result in a big BOOM as the gas ignites within the exhaust system. The cat converter is designed to get very hot, and burn off any unburned fuel that made it past the cylinders (Hydrocarbon) as to help with environmental issues.
Can Coleman fuel be substituted for kerosene?
No, Coleman fuel is much more closely related to unleaded gasoline, and should NOT be used in any kerosene appliances.
Leaded gas verses unleaded is cheaper?
We no longer use leaded gasoline. We only use unleaded, which is sold in three octane ratings. I think it goes Regular unleaded 87 octane, unleaded octane 92, then maybe 97 which they call premium. Lots of people buy the middle or higher grade which costs more, and doesn`t help any ! If you car runs ok on regular there is no use spending the extra money for the middle grade. In fact there is so little difference they should come from the same tank. Check your owners manual if your manual doesn`t tell you to use premium, then use the regular which will cost you less.
