Gull Pump Fuel

[F5 Dave]

Not keen to spend much more time in the dyno room with methanol bike. Its horrid. Amazing cooling effect even on an old Brit nail. Uncanny.

[husaberg]

I hope you're right. Currently it's even illegal in the classes allowed to use methanol as it doesn't match the definition of methanol fuel in the book.
The first step would be to put forward a remit permitting E85 in the methanol classes. That shouldn't raise too many waves.
There's a massive resistance to alcohol base fuels in the MNZ hierarchy due mainly to a perceived higher fire risk, ha....

I'd point out too that any machine using alcohol based fuel must carry "dangerous goods" or equivalent stickers.

its not so much the higher fire risk, more the you can't see that they are on fire risk?

[Flettner]

mine burns with a colour, add 15% petrol (ie E85) and add twostroke oil, there you have it, you know you are on fire with E85.

[Hemi Makutu]

If you look up the price that Methanex NZ sells the bulk industrial stuff for, you'll be shocked..
( US price 96 cents a gallon, or well under NZ $0.50 a litre).

[Grumph]

its not so much the higher fire risk, more the you can't see that they are on fire risk?

Solved that in the late 80's by putting a remit in requiring sidecars on methanol to add a minimum of 5% tolulene to the fuel.
Blended well, stayed in solution - and burned with a visible flame.
E85 to the best of my knowledge also burns with a visible flame.
It was always the sidecars crashing at wanganui and setting bales on fire that got up MNZ noses....

That rule - like others - has disappeared from the book. Probably because no one knew what it was for.

At the time there was a yank over here racing a chair. I got talking to him as he was involved in their formula extreme - which was open fuel when it started.
Pretty sure he went back and put the 5% toly in those rules too.