06/01/2019
Good Information
AREN’T GAS-POWERED TOOLS DESIGNED TO RUN ON STREET GAS? WHY DO I NEED A SPECIAL FUEL?
Yes they were designed for street gas, because prior to our introduction of VP Small Engine Fuels, the only fuel available to the engine designers was street gas.
1. Street gas is designed to conform to the lowest standards possible—the lowest CHEAPEST possible formula that passes the government. Why? Because street gas is sold almost exclusively on price. The cheapest price.
2. At the same time, the competition between small engine manufacturers has led them to make better, more powerful engines. And better, lighter engines demand more and more from fuels, even while the street gas they’re designed to use is getting worse for these small engines. While newer production engines are being set up to run on street gas with 10% ethanol, the engines ARE NOT being designed to resist the harmful effects of ethanol, i.e. gumming and corrosion.
3. So why do you need a good fuel in your small engine? Scaled up, your small engine offers performance comparable to some of the best, most powerful racing engines in the world. And it’s air cooled. Let me repeat that…It’s AIR cooled. There has not been an air cooled racing engine in the last 25 years, because air cooled engines put very high demands on fuel and oil requirements.
So what you have in your string trimmer is a high performance F1-caliber engine that’s air cooled…running at RPMs only attained by world class racing engines…running on street gas that was made with the cheapest possible formula…laden with ethanol that will ultimately destroy your fuel system. And that’s no way to “feed” your high performance thoroughbred.
To learn more, go to https://vpracingfuels.com/about-us/faq/ and click on Small Engine Fuels.