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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:29:06 -0400 (EDT) John D Mccormack <s0jdmcco@titan.vcu.edu> writes: >Hey - this may be a bit premature for winter in VA, but this'll be the >first one with my '72 squareback. Anything i ought to be considering >as >the cold weather comes this way? Someone said I ought to step down to >a >lower octane gas as the fuel doesn't vaporize in cold weather, etc and >higher octane gas has a higher combustion temp, or something like that >anyway, but the engine really pings with anything less than 90 octane. > >But that's just the gas....what else? > >Dave > > Pings on less than 90? With the low compression that a VW has stock that is hard to believe.. What are you running engine wise? Scott