Avgas
Yeah it is slightly off the books, so to speak, but I have never been stopped and had anyone test the fuel in my tank. And I don't do it for the octane- It is just because it is so good for storage. There are no other benefits, real or imagined. If there was still 80/87 avgas around, which had very little to no lead in its final days, I'd use that. I can tell you the bikes run fine on all these, but it is just that one winter tank. I could always drain it back out and put it in the airplane, which by the way, normally burns 87 octane car gas (legally). So let's say I do that, and it's going into the plane in the spring. 100LL is about 5.50 a gallon, for those who were asking. And road taxes are paid on avgas- it's not like heating oil for diesel fuel. But it is an off-road fuel because of the lead. I'd rather have no-lead with the storage lifetime, to tell the truth. At my plane annuals, before I could find no-ethanol gas, and ran 100LL, the plugs always had lead clinkers. With car gas in the plane (legally, with an EAA STC), the plugs are so clean I think someone has already cleaned them. And it's about 2 dollars a gallon cheaper.
Yeah it is slightly off the books, so to speak, but I have never been stopped and had anyone test the fuel in my tank. And I don't do it for the octane- It is just because it is so good for storage. There are no other benefits, real or imagined. If there was still 80/87 avgas around, which had very little to no lead in its final days, I'd use that. I can tell you the bikes run fine on all these, but it is just that one winter tank. I could always drain it back out and put it in the airplane, which by the way, normally burns 87 octane car gas (legally). So let's say I do that, and it's going into the plane in the spring. 100LL is about 5.50 a gallon, for those who were asking. And road taxes are paid on avgas- it's not like heating oil for diesel fuel. But it is an off-road fuel because of the lead. I'd rather have no-lead with the storage lifetime, to tell the truth. At my plane annuals, before I could find no-ethanol gas, and ran 100LL, the plugs always had lead clinkers. With car gas in the plane (legally, with an EAA STC), the plugs are so clean I think someone has already cleaned them. And it's about 2 dollars a gallon cheaper.