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Old 13th Sep 2016, 07:31
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Supermouse3: If you try and put MOGAS in an IO540 and run it at full power, it may produce the same power for a little bit before detonating, because of the lower octane rating and the high specific energy it will not run.
An IO-540 is just an IO-360 with two extra cylinders. An IO-360 is just a bigger brother to the O-320. The O-320 will run on mogas.

A few years ago there were plenty of O-320s being run on mogas on this side of the ditch with no adverse affects.

I cannot see why an O-540 or IO-540 would't run quite happily on mogas. In fact I suspect plenty of them have been run on mogas quite successfully.

Remember these are not high compression engines.
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