[FC] Re;120 hp engine

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

< <  the question I had was how can I wean my Greenbrier from 93% to 94 
% octain to just regular gas > >

bolt on? try http://www.american-pi.com/safeguard/safeguard2.html

or, rebuild it perhaps using octane cut pistons, reworked cylinder heads 
(lower compression ratio), modified deck height, econo cam, etc.

or,  bite the bullet -- buy premium -- look, at 20 cents a gallon more 
for the high octane when gas is $3/gal, it is a lot less percentage wise 
than when regular was 19¢/gal and premium was 27¢ ...

it was a big deal when minimum wage was 90¢/hr and a regular fill up was 
$3 and premium was $4, but now, is it a big deal when a fill up is going 
to be $30 whether it is $30 or $32?

< <  his respone was it is hard to change over a 140 or 160 hp to just 
reg but a120 hp [does] not have the harden[ed] valves and it can run on 
reg gas. -- bunk or is he right  > >

doesn't know what he is saying -- what is a 120 hp Corvair? (or a 160, 
for that matter) -- hardened valve seats have to do with tetra-ethyl 
lead in the gas, which ain't there no more in unleaded pump gasoline,  
and all Corvairs have hardened valve seats -- valves are also specially 
heat treated in normal automotive applications

Yes, your guy is full of it, but on the other hand, it is harder to run 
a higher compression engine on lower octane fuel, and those higher 
horsepower engines have higher compression than the low horsepower, 
lower compression motors.

So quit whining and do something about it -- either buy the fuel or buy 
the engine mods or crank the timing back to where it won't hardly run 
like a corvair (and that has it's own set of problems).

Now, whining about the high price of gas in conjunction with high oil 
company profits, well that is probably all that we can do -- whine (and 
next time they have Presidential elections, don't vote for an oil man) ...

Bill Strickland