Thread: Reg versus Premium Fuel experiament in 09 PT Cruiser

Steve wrote:[color=blue] >[color=green] >> >> I'm not an expert in this area, but street rumor over the years was >> that GM cams wore out so suddenly because they nitrided the cams >> (surface treatment). Nitride is super hard, but once it wore thru >> that layer, the cams wore like butter. I did have to replace a cam in >> a 1980 GM vehicle at...

Bill Putney wrote:[color=blue] > > jim wrote:[color=green] > > > > Bill Putney wrote:[color=darkred] > >> jim wrote: > >> > >>> ...the breaker point ignition always meant that the engine > >>> spent a considerable amount of its life with late timing due to breaker > >>> points...

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:54:01 +0000 (UTC), Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote: [color=blue] >On 2009-11-05, Matthew Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:[color=green] >> In article <-NydnQPDm9rTim7XnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d@texas.net>, >> Steve <no@spam.thanks> wrote:[color=darkred] >>> >>>Also left...

[color=blue] > > I'm not an expert in this area, but street rumor over the years was that > GM cams wore out so suddenly because they nitrided the cams (surface > treatment). Nitride is super hard, but once it wore thru that layer, > the cams wore like butter. I did have to replace a cam in a 1980 GM > vehicle at about the mileage that "they" said was typical of the...

Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> wrote in news:7lepdaF3dpl0uU1@mid.individual.net: [color=blue] > This should be made part of cap and trade - OH - I'm sorry! I forgot > the new euphemism for that is the "Clean Energy and Security Act". >[/color] that should be the "NO energy and NO security Act". -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com

"E. Meyer" <epmeyer50@gmail.com> writes:[color=blue] > > I AM a software engineer who worked on that stuff since 1968 and worked on > several of these alleged Y2K problems. Every one was total crap. > Absolutely nothing would have happened. >[/color] You had an astonishingly unusual experience, at variance both with all the statistics and every other software engineer I've...

On 2009-11-07, Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> wrote: [color=blue] > IOW - the Mayans had only gotten that far in extending their calendar > when their own civilization collapsed and they stopped adding to the > calendar - but when "modern" man looks at that in retrospect, his > interpretation of that observation is that the Mayans stopped updating > the calendars at the point...

Jim Yanik wrote:[color=blue] > dsi1 <dsi1@spamnet.com> wrote in news:w4OHm.132$oo.5@newsfe20.iad: >[color=green] >> Ashton Crusher wrote:[color=darkred] >>> >>> That's what I was thinking. I wonder how much alcohol they are >>> allowed to put in basic gasoline. Maybe the main difference between >>> regular and...

"Steve" <no@spam.thanks> wrote in message[color=blue] > > It amazes me that anyone today doesn't realize what a massive effort went > into fixing all the possible Y2K problems before they happened. I guess > thats gratitude for you.... :-([/color] I think you are right in a sense. There is no gratitude. Did we not see the millenium coming for the entire history of modern...

[color=blue][color=green] > > that is why running hi-test in a car designed to use regular is a > > waste of money.[/color] > > It may or may not be a waste of money (the only way to find > out for sure is to try it). The EPA specifies higher octane fuel for > its fuel economy tests - so it would stand to reason that some cars > designed for regular fuel would get slightly better...