RE: [T3] The Hill

[James MacNaughton <JMac@uglyduckling.com>]

Really unfortunately, I only use 92 octane; and when I can find a Sunoco I
go for the blue stuff (I thought of that one right off, because this one had
been sitting when I bought it, and I wanted to give her the best I could).

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Gurrola_J [SMTP:Gurrola_J@BLS.GOV]
	Sent:	Wednesday, 14 October 1998 11:18
	To:	type3@vwtype3.org
	Subject:	RE: [T3] The Hill
	Importance:	High

	Jim,
	before you start to open up your wallet, try using 92 RON gas.  If
you
	read the inside of your gas door you will see that your engine
requires
	91 RON gas.  You problem is that you want to use cheap gas.  Also,
	readjust everything back to where it was before you thought you had
a
	problem.  The lower octane gas is also why you feel no power alonmg
with
	having retarded the timing.  

	> ----------
	> From: 	James MacNaughton[SMTP:JMac@uglyduckling.com]
	> Sent: 	Wednesday, October 14, 1998 11:05 AM
	> To: 	'type3@vwtype3.org'
	> Subject: 	RE: [T3] The Hill
	> 
	> Okay, that's kind of what I'd expected.  I've been dreadfully
paranoid
	> since
	> a Type I sent a half pound of aluminum into the strainer one day
soon
	> after
	> I moved to AZ.  I was on 87 just outside (about 17 miles) of
Florence.
	> Heavily populated area, so it was easy to get a tow.  Oh, no,
wait,
	> it's the
	> middle of the dessert.
	> 
	> Anyway, I'm still pretty new to T3's, and this guy who's a real
	> fanatic said
	> that some pinging in an FI car wasn't so bad, and likely due to FI
	> problems.
	> I backed my timing off anyway; and on the climb up the hill I
actually
	> got
	> really chicken and backed the timing to btdc, and enriched the a/f
	> mixture.
	> Pinging went away mostly, but the really striking lack of anything
	> resembling power worried me.
	> 
	> Once I got through the hills, and took off through Chino and
Williams
	> she
	> just ripped right along, no complaints.  But I was worried about
the
	> continued pinging (uphill) and what I felt was significant power
loss.
	> The
	> only other time I pulled the big hill was in a fairly hot Type I,
and
	> while
	> things like 5 litre Mustangs and Corvettes were passing me, I was
	> never
	> below 60 the whole run up.
	> 
	> Suggestions?  I'm investigating a bad pressure regulator, any
other
	> possibilities?
	> 
	> 	-----Original Message-----
	> 	From:	Park, Keith J (CRD) [SMTP:parkkj@crd.ge.com]
	> 	Sent:	Wednesday, 14 October 1998 10:50
	> 	To:	'type3@vwtype3.org'
	> 	Subject:	RE: [T3] The Hill
	> 
	> 	When pulling a hill.. ANY pinging is unacceptable,like hole
in
	> #3
	> unacceptable.
	> 
	> 	When pulling a hill.. Stock now.. use 3/4 throttle in the
heat
	> and
	> if she falls below 55 throw It in
	> 	third.  MUCH more cooling air with the engine going faster.
	> 
	> 	Keith
	> 
	> 	
	>
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