What alteration would be required to make an airplane engine run on gasoline?(Avco?

Question

Lycoming )-360

Answer 1

You have to spend alot of money to get the aircraft STC'ed for autogas. Its a paperwork problem. The only modification on the aircraft are two stickers next to the fuel caps. The engine will run just as good on autogas and the plugs may last longer.

Answer 2

Some carb. adjustment. DONT DO IT. I was an aircraft engine mechanic for 21 years. You're asking for big trouble. COULD cost you your life, and it will certainly damage your eng., in the long-run !

Answer 3

Tons of alteration, the result mpg being .01 mpg.  Simply because autogas doesn't have enough fuel to combust completely like airplanes.  Airplanes need the jetfuel that can burn better and also burn cleaner.

Answer 4

Well, you could listen to Rex the mechanic and miss out on what thousands of pilots already know which is that autogas runs great in an aircraft engine with no mechanical modification to the carberator or anything else. The STC is simple paperwork. Or you could listen to Chad and put jet fuel into the tank that feeds your Lycoming IO360. I just hope there isn't enough auto gas or avgas in the lines to get you to the runway. It'd be nice to have your engine quit while your taxiing on the ground still me thinks. Jeez folks. Some of this guessing here is gonna get somebody killed.