Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            Apr 28 4:11 Guest User - Request Membership Layout | Log In | Help | Videos | Site | Emails  Search:   Front Page Calendar Photos Add Photos News Add News File Cabinet Add File Cabinet History Add History * Searey Info * Add * Searey Info * Polls Add Polls Classifieds Add Classifieds Utilities Create a New Site  News View All News | Add News | Emoticons | Mark Unread Search News:      Category: Miscellaneous Previous Item - Young Eagles in Seareys? This will go to the previous thread in this topic.       Favorite option: If you want this item to be marked as a favorite, click on the black heart.   Its not a Searey but it sure flys         Next Item - Drone climbs to 1000 meters This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Dennis Scearce - Jul 16,2018   Viewers  | Reply     My latest hot-rod. First car I've ever been truly scared of. 1950 MGTD with a a modified 350 Chevy and 4-speed. Quite an upgrade from the original 57 hp.       Attachments:   MG engine         Attachments:   MG in driveway          Eric Batterman - Jul 16,2018   Viewers  | Reply     I hope you upgraded the brakes.          Steve Kessinger - Jul 17,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Just.... wrong. And I want one.          Dennis Scearce - Jul 17,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Actually, you nailed the #1 problem, Eric. It goes like a batouttahades and has 4 wheel disc brakes, but a real Rube Goldberg / non power assisted master cylinder arrangement. It stops like a Model A Ford. That's the first thing I'm going to improve on it.          Don Maxwell - Jul 17,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Let #2 be a roll bar. I love the rear-hinged doors, by the way. Detroit & Co may have converted to front hinges, but yours are much more fun and make entry and exit easier. Also good on a hot day in slow-moving traffic.          Dennis Scearce - Jul 17,2018   Viewers  | Reply     "Rudy" don't do good on hot days with slow moving traffic. Even though he has a custom built Griffin aluminum radiator. But he is scary fast. And sounds so good.          Nickens, Dan - Jul 17,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Beautiful! And a great SeaRey accessory.          Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Jul 19,2018   Viewers  | Reply     I once had an MGA which a good friend persuaded me I should race at Silverstone. I was entered in a couple of 'scratch' races ( cars of different vintages on handicap.) Spun twice in the first race. In the second I was going well, (I thought) when a MG TD with original engine but tuned, head shaved etc, blew past on the inside going about fifty MPH faster. I'll swear it looked like one of those things from Wily Coyote, Got a little plaque for winning my class though. (Class of slow coaches!)          Dennis Scearce - Jul 20,2018   Viewers  | Reply     So far I haven't had the nerve to go past second gear with the hammer down. It's definitely a straight line car and a hand full under power. I also having trouble getting the smile off of my face when I get home.          Mark MacKinnon - Jul 20,2018   Viewers  | Reply     How would it go with 100LL?          Dennis Scearce - Jul 21,2018   Viewers  | Reply     It goes darn good with 93 no ethanol.          Bill Brown - Jul 22,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Dennis, where do you get 93 no ethanol? Here I have only found WaWa 89 no ethanol.          Dennis Scearce - Jul 23,2018   Viewers  | Reply     The marinas around Lake Norman have it but get $4.15 a gallon. I have found a small convenience store (Super food Mart) in Maiden, NC that carries it for $3.79. I buy 50 gallons at a time.       Attachments:   gas tank 1          Bill Brown - Jul 23,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Nice setup Dennis. I have to pass the Wawa on my way to fly so I just pick up the 93 rather than storing it. Sure wish they had the ethanol free 93 though. It doesn't appear though that anyone is having any trouble with the ethanol. I did have a recommendation to starve the engine on shutdown if I haven't flown in a while.          Don Maxwell - Jul 23,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Does anyone know where Progressive Aerodyne buys gasoline for the factory planes? I bought 15 gallons of 93 octane for $3.02 at a Wawa yesterday and went flying (though not for long because of the rain and low clouds). Yes, it had 10% ethanol. And, yes, I do think about the possibility of phase separation at high altitudes, although it has never occurred that I know of (and I do sample the fuel regularly). Last Wednesday I added 5 gallons of 100LL at an airport in Delaware, but that probably hasn't done the engine too much harm, as it was diluted by about 11 gallons of 93 octane gas. Flew 4.8 hours that day, burned 19 gallons, averaged just less than 4 gph. (Going to try flying faster next time.)          Steve Kessinger - Jul 24,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Someone beat me to it, but I'm glad someone is doing it. I'm sure it's not very accurate, but it's something. http://www.buyrealgas.com/       Attachments:   93 No ethanol stations          Dennis Scearce - Jul 24,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Interesting that it doesn't show any non-ethanol gas around Mooresville. Every marina and a lot of convenience stores have 89 or 90 octane pure gas here.          Eric Batterman - Jul 24,2018   Viewers  | Reply     buyrealgass.com encourages users to report stations that sell non-ethanol gas (crowdsourcing) Did a few seconds more research: Pure-gas.org is much more comprehensive.       Attachments:   Pure-gas          Don Maxwell - Jul 24,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Thanks, Eric. You've encouraged me to clean my iPhone of apps I never use any more. (But Pure Gas is one I'll keep in case I ever get around to restoring the 1940-vintage Johnson 5 I inherited from Carol's dad.)          Bill Brown - Jul 23,2018   Viewers  | Reply     I think at the local Citgo. Premium with ethanol. I asked them last time I was there about mixing Wawa 89 ethanol free and premium 93 and they said that they didn't think that it was necessary. Just use the 93. Not sure if that was an official statement. Probably not. Question; I get a white residue on the outside of the spout of the plastic can that I use for fuel. Do you know what that is?          Don Maxwell - Jul 23,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Bill, I don't recall ever seeing a white residue on the spout--but my favorite cans have white spouts, so it may be there. The most important thing, I think, is to buy gas from the busiest station you can find. Or to put it the other way around (as I learned once from Experience) the worst place to by gas is an old, low-volume station.          Bill Brown - Jul 23,2018   Viewers  | Reply     Thanks Don, a good recommendation, I've also been told not to buy fuel while the tanker in at the station. Stirs up trash from the bottom of the tank I guess.          Mark MacKinnon - Jul 26,2018   Viewers  | Reply     I've also heard this. But if the tanker had just delivered it's load and left a minute before you arrived, you would have no way of knowing...          Don Maxwell - Jul 26,2018   Viewers  | Reply     I always hope the pump's filter is working. (They do have filters--yes?)          Mark MacKinnon - Jul 27,2018   Viewers  | Reply     THAT question is why I have always filtered every drop of autogas through a Mr. Funnel before going in my plane. Been doing it since I bought my plane.          Shannon Moon - Aug 09,2018   Viewers  | Reply     So that's the hotrod you were picking up! NICE!

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