avgas is a petroleum type fuel with 108 octane, used in older airoplane piston engines. im assuming this is cos of the thinner air at altitude. anyway does anyone know where to get any? ?

 

You'll be able to buy it from an airfield

http://www.thehangar.co.uk/fuel/fuel.shtml

 

please tell me youre not thinking of running a car on this? it will run like a bag of shite and melt!

 

ok i get ya point, its a bad idea. safe.

 

i know a few people who did this and it kills engines! but you CAN run a diesel on avtur!

 

aye most of the lads in work run thier cars on avtur


not a lot of lubricant in it mind. but at 0 pence a litre you cant complain

 

AvGas in a car is a bad idea

 

i can get plenty of that but i dont have a diesel, unfortunately. does it wear it out noticably then?

 

not all that bad. most guys i know run 50/50 mixes or add a bit of some treatment stuff that they reckon works quite well




avtur is just like cheap badly refined diesel essentially anyway so id imagine its not too far off what youd find in really shonky petrol stations.

ya cant run a normal motor on it tho

 

really, i thought it was quite a high quality, being that its used in flying tin cans continuously. oh well. cheers anyway

 

aircraft fuels have to have VERY different properties to car fuels so thats why theyre not really compatible,a plane has to not blow up when it crashes at 300+ mph etc....... it also has to run at high altitude amongst other things

 

true, true. didnt think of that

 

the high altitude isnt really an issue, the tanks are pressurised so the fuel wont boil. and a bit of Fuel system icing inhibitor (FSII) deals with the temperature. (combined wth the heated fuel recirc from the engines)

Thing is gas turbines will run on pretty much anything (up to and including coal dust), so the fuel only really has to meet certain standards ie flamability, corrosion/lubrication issues, and freezing. other than that its as cheap as humanly possible.

you honestly think the aviation industry would be paying for expensive well refined high quality fuels (let alone the military)