seller completed his form & I completed the MR13B. Just wondering if I receive a letter in the mail saying I am now the registered owner of the bike? how does this process usually go?
NZTA will send you a certificate of registration naming you as the registered person and a list of previous registration transfer dates.
You're not exactly right there Crasher.
25 years in the fuel and lubricants industry here and I was on the industry panel that the MOE put together to establish the fuel specifications for the introduction of ULP. I'd say that Marsden UL91 was as good as any UL91 anywhere, Marsden Point being a somewhat MON limited refinery you tend to get RON give away and the fuel out of there is fairly free of olefins. Spec'd for NZ conditions too, vapour pressure changes to accommodate winter starting.
But then, Auckland gets only Marsden Point petrol down the pipeline, you poor folk south of the Bombays might be getting imported fuel - but it'll still have to meet the MOE specs and they're quite rigorous.
Did you have any particular area where UL91 falls short? And is that a shortfall against the actual MOE spec or just a shortfall in your expectations?
You do know of course that US engines have their octane requirement specified in a different way. Here we identify petrol by only its RON, either 91, 95 and 98 for certain brands. In the States they identify gasoline octane by (RON + MON)/2, an average octane. Therefore the States 91 is more like NZ 95 RON (95 + 85)/2.
Also common for the big four to put other extras in their highest octane fuel.
Logic seems to be people will buy 91 because they don't care but performance fuel they want a point of difference to keep them coming back to their brand.
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If the Harley manual says use 91 Octane, then use New Zealand 95! Our 95 Octane has a MON of 85 and a RON of 95, therefore is almost a direct equivalent of US 91 Octane.
When unleaded petrol was introduced, the MOE was worried that cars that had run on leaded 96 for years may be tuned wrong for ULP 95. While the MOE were happy to have the spec written around a RON of 95 in line with European standards, they did have this 96 octane tuning concern. So the fuel companies proposed to the MOE that though the spec for ULP 95 would state a RON of 95 octane, they would supply ULP 95 with a minimum RON of 96 for a year or 18 months (this was over 20 years ago, can't remember the length of time).
And going back maybe 27 years, Caltex wanted a BMW approval for their newly introduced additised petrol. This showed that the additised petrol kept the back of the intake valves clean and this stopped lean start up and rich running when the engine warmed up. Caltex NZ sent 800 Litres of unadditised Marsden Pt ULP91 to BMW California to have the test run, BMW would additise the petrol (actually gasoline by the time it reached the USA) with the additive supplied by the additive company and run the test. The pallet of petrol arrived on the San Fransisco wharf on October 16th, 1989, the day before the the California earthquake. The petrol went missing for about 4 weeks, safe and sound on the wharf but its whereabouts unknown to anyone. Finally the petrol got to BMW and the test was run, BMW would dismantle the engines and weigh the inlet valves, run some 320s up and down the Californian freeways for some distance (10,000 miles each I think), then dismantle the engines and weigh the inlet valves again. To pass the test you were allowed some minimal weight increase on the four valves. The NZ test showed weight absolutely no gains. BMW rang the additive company and asked what was this amazing new additive they were testing, but the additive company had to tell them the result was down to the quality of the Marsden Pt petrol, very low olefins content because of the Marsden Point hydrocracker.
So, from losing the petrol in the aftermath of the California earthquake, it all turned out OK in the end. I had a set of four inlet valves in a plastic top box on my desk as a paperweight, the valves were marked "0.00 g, 0.00 g, 0.00 g and -0.01 g". Don't know what the test cost Caltex, but they must have been the most expensive inlet valves in the country.
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For fuels with ethanol added, I believe that the octane rating is not harmed by the addition, but the fuel's calorific value drops - you get less kilojoules per litre and so have to use more fuel for a given task. Since this fuel is cheaper, your km's / $ is about the same as conventional fuels.
However, I also believe that the stoichiometric fuel/air ratio for both fuels is about the same (open to correction here). It must be, I think, because otherwise the engine would have to be re-tuned when moving from one to the other.
The consequence of all this then, is that the motor must have less peak power on the alcohol blend.
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91 95 and 98 all work fine in my old 88ci motor. I cany tell any diference between any of them.
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