What petrol to use on what model?

[rsg]

Hey guys, great forum you got here, very helpful.

Anyways, I recently ordered an FTO and am getting it in 2 days time, I was just curious about the petrol to use? Leaded or unleaded? It's a GR '95 model Automatic.

Anyone know?

[pergau]

Hi,

I'm pretty sure that all cars built after 1987 are unleaded capable and anything with a catalytic converter needs Unleaded. I don't know of anyone here or in Wngland who runs theirs on anything other than unleaded (apart from a little NOS : ) )

I don't know if the situation is different in RSA but it's almost impossible to get leaded or LRP petrol here now.

[rsg]

I don't know if the situation is different in RSA but it's almost impossible to get leaded or LRP petrol here now.

Almost every petrol station here has leaded & unleaded, so I had to be sure cause the one petrol type we have here is Sasol Leaded Super 100 octane, and I wanted to use that.

Anyways, thanks for replying.

RSG

[Myfeckin FTO]

From what I understand - The FTO was designed to run on 100 Octane Unleaded in Japan and anything less is a compromise - I run my FTO on 97 unleaded and often put in a can of Octane booster to bring it up to 100 Octane - find that it runs much better and a fair bit more economical than the standard 95 Octane Unleaded that passes for fuel on this side of the world.

You did mention something about 100 Octane leaded fuel - my understanding would be that you would not be able to use this fuel with a catalytic convertor - over here leaded fuel has been phased out - and besides the leaded fuel nozzle would be too large to fit in an unleaded cars fuel tank.

I presume you imported the car from Japan - IMHO - without any modifications - you would have to use unleaded fuel regardless of Octane - fairly sure you could do significant damage using Leaded.

[Viper]

I thought you couldn't get leaded petrol in Ireland any more - was it not banned and replaced with Lead Replacement Petrol?

[rsg]

I did order from Japan, but there are no engine mods as far as I know (Maybe one or 2!).

Anyhow, thats for the help guys, I appreciate it. I think we get Unleaded 95 or 96 here, but I'll look around.

Rsg

[Daz]

Hey guys, great forum you got here, very helpful.

Anyways, I recently ordered an FTO and am getting it in 2 days time, I was just curious about the petrol to use? Leaded or unleaded? It's a GR '95 model Automatic.

Anyone know?

It won't run on leaded (which is now non exsistant anyway) or lead replacement petrol either it runs on unleaded. it.s supposed to run on 100ron unleaded but it will run on the 95 ron unleaded we use in this country, it does this thru the ECU which compensates for the 5 ron loss, you can use super unleaded(97ron) and top up with octane booster but any gain made isn't worth the price paid. And if i recall correct the two most powerful FTO's at the last rolling road were only running unleaded petrol, well i know i was and i was only beaten by 0.4 hp and that was also with a standard filter and exhaust

Daz...