The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

Maxol unleaded petrol is 99.2 octane and is the same price as 95 octane in other fueling stations. It contain 5% bio-ethanol which is better for the environment and allows you accelerate faster. At constant speed it will also give you better MPG.

In a 200 hp engine this should give you nearly an extra 10 hp.

It is suitable for all petrol engines but I do not take any responsibility for any harm or damages. It is just a tip.

I use this product myself. I do recommend it but it's at your own discretion to use it.

Really?

never knew that....


Iv to run it with the turbo setup to revent det

In some Maxol petrol stations they also have pure bio-ethanol pumps. Do NOT put pure bio-ethanol in your car. It's not for a for petrol engines. Only use their Unleaded petrol. It's contains only 5% bio-ethanol and is for petrol engines.

This is old news, it's more a case of if you don't use Maxol E5 in your car your bhp figure drops from the standard 197bhp. the car is mapped for high octane Japanese fuel, the E5 is close to that.

I'm pretty certain that Topaz fuel is also E5

colm_mcm wrote:I'm pretty certain that Topaz fuel is also E5

Correct. Its just a matter of time until ethanol mixes find their way onto more forecourts.

CJ

this thread is like ultimate deja vu.

Yes ALL TOPAZ in Leinster (supplied from Dublin port) are 99.2 Octane 5% ethanol mix. My partner is a customer manger in Topaz and asked the commercial director himself.
I've not noticed any difference in power at all, but... I have seen sustained increases in MPG in the region of 15 - 20%. Huge difference. Consistently used to get 450km per tank on regular 95 octane, Now I get 550km per tank every single week, same drive/route each week so its fairly certain there is a big increase in MPG. highly recommend you guys try it. It will take 2 or 3 tanks before you notice an obvious MPG difference.

CJ wrote:

colm_mcm wrote:I'm pretty certain that Topaz fuel is also E5

Correct. Its just a matter of time until ethanol mixes find their way onto more forecourts.

CJ

just to add, I believe its a European directive that all EU countries are using 5.75% ethanol(renewable) mix by 2010 on all forecourts. This has now been raised to 10% recently in the medium term. So its inevitable.

source: http://ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=5258

as far as i know any standard car can cope with up to 22% befor it causes any major issues

d_dan wrote:as far as i know any standard car can cope with up to 22% befor it causes any major issues

At that sort of ratio, the issue you'll have on older cars is degradation of rubber components in the fuel line. By its nature, ethanol (in large enough quantities) will attack organic rubber compounds over a sustained time frame.

Mitsi specify that you shouldn't use anything higher than E5 in older models (search the web, FTO not listed but one can assume the same applies). For my money, a 10% ethanol mix (E10) would be fine to use on our cars (commonly used in NZ - keep an eye out MJ!) without any significant issue over time.

CJ

so you could just lash a few litres of E85 on top of your fill of petrol?

colm_mcm wrote:so you could just lash a few litres of E85 on top of your fill of petrol?

Absolutely, do the maths to work out the mix and you're sorted.

CJ

colm_mcm wrote:so you could just lash a few litres of E85 on top of your fill of petrol?

I've done it in the Zed a few times - 5litres added to every 40litres (of E5). Without bothering to do the maths I'd say it'd be close on 101RON.
Also ran with Silkolene octance booster on top of that lot just to see how it ran. The big difference I found was with economy - base 95 was 7.9 to 8.4 km/l while E5 gave me circa 10km/l (figures from the trip computer over the course of several tanks and a couple of thousand kms).


As per Colms point though - if you drive a Jap performance car then you need to use higher RON fuel to get close to claimed bhp in the first place - the FTO isn't suddenly gonna become a 210bhp car cause you use E5 - it'll do well do get anywhere near 197bhp.

Tons of threads of this already - http://www.fto-ireland.com/forum/phpBB2 ... php?t=6911

http://www.fto-ireland.com/forum/phpBB2 ... php?t=5637