01-10-2023, 09:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2023, 09:39 AM by Speedex750.)
Hi all,
My experience with these pellets is quite different. They were originally advertised in the nineties to allow unleaded petrol to be used in '4 star' engines. We ran Austin Metro's then, being hard pressed with a young family and unleaded being appreciably cheaper this seemed a great wheeze to save money on my daily 50 mile round trip to work. They worked for me. I had no measurable valve recession and the cars ran perfectly on the unleaded. On moving up to a Montego as the boys grew the pellet assembly was fished out and transplanted - same positive result. I will add that while much of the driving was fairly mundane I wasn't adverse to opening it up now and again so the exhaust valves and seats did get a good blast of heat.
I would agree that no real performance improvement was noticed but that wasn't the point then. The pellets are now in my 10:1 compression AH3000 allied with Castrol Valvemaster to protect the seats - again no recession.
The world doesn't move on unless you're prepared to believe in something different and try it.
Dave
My experience with these pellets is quite different. They were originally advertised in the nineties to allow unleaded petrol to be used in '4 star' engines. We ran Austin Metro's then, being hard pressed with a young family and unleaded being appreciably cheaper this seemed a great wheeze to save money on my daily 50 mile round trip to work. They worked for me. I had no measurable valve recession and the cars ran perfectly on the unleaded. On moving up to a Montego as the boys grew the pellet assembly was fished out and transplanted - same positive result. I will add that while much of the driving was fairly mundane I wasn't adverse to opening it up now and again so the exhaust valves and seats did get a good blast of heat.
I would agree that no real performance improvement was noticed but that wasn't the point then. The pellets are now in my 10:1 compression AH3000 allied with Castrol Valvemaster to protect the seats - again no recession.
The world doesn't move on unless you're prepared to believe in something different and try it.
Dave