Hey Guys,
I remember reading a post fromm Ciaran about using super-unleaded. Obviously super ain't available that much (or at all) these days so I'm wondering if I can use an Octane Booster with std unleaded? Does anyone have any recommendations on a brand of Octane Booster?
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Shane
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by soc » Fri Jul 11, 2003 9:42 am
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by CJ » Mon Jul 14, 2003 10:58 am
Shane, after a bit of research, I found that most octane boosters are pretty useless and don't raise the octane level of the fuel all that much.
They rate the increase in octane in 'points', the thing is that 3 points is actually a 0.3% increase in the octane level which is hardly worth the money. My personal pref. is to use SUL, expensive as it is, I definitely feel a drop in power when filling up with standard UL. That said, the GR\GPX will run fine on UL, the ECU (knock sensor) will retard the ignition timing to compenate for the lower octane level which in turn will result in a *slight* loss of power.
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They rate the increase in octane in 'points', the thing is that 3 points is actually a 0.3% increase in the octane level which is hardly worth the money. My personal pref. is to use SUL, expensive as it is, I definitely feel a drop in power when filling up with standard UL. That said, the GR\GPX will run fine on UL, the ECU (knock sensor) will retard the ignition timing to compenate for the lower octane level which in turn will result in a *slight* loss of power.
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