What kinda gas is everyone using?

[EclipseGST-95]

The guages say use premium...the gas cap door says use premium ...im using premium...what is everyone else using....and does anyone kno if theres any disadvantages/advantages of using premium/regular?

 

[teme]

95 octane here @ Finland

 

[laserspeeddemon]

European Octance ratings are on another scale. For instance, I put in 93 octane gas, but on the European scale I am putting in 98. 95 ocatane from Europe is about 91 from the states

 

[teme]

hehe ... why u americans wanna do everything differently

 

[EclipseGST-95]

i live in delaware and i just heard on the news that some of the mobils are leaving and they are getting replaced with sunoco's...and i heard that premium in sunoco is like 96 octane thats freakin awesome

 

[rdogg07]

schaumburg, il here..

i've used 89 and up 94. and i never really noticed a difference!! but i also didn't have a boost gauge at the time. ill have to try again and see how my boost reacts.

 

[1_bar_goes_far]

I use 89 and 91 cuz thats what I have to work with around here:thumbdown

I was woundering what xylene and toluene were and what do they do and are they bad in any ways.

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

Originally posted by 1_bar_goes_far
I use 89 and 91 cuz thats what I have to work with around here:thumbdown

I was woundering what xylene and toluene were and what do they do and are they bad in any ways.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Im not one to mix up a high boost cocktail without the recipe.

 

[logic]

Originally posted by RiceKiller_TSi
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Im not one to mix up a high boost cocktail without the recipe.

Here's a few links to get you started:

From the Grand National folks:
http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/misc/octaneexplained.html
http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/misc/octanebooster.html
http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/misc/Octanemix.html

Others:
http://www.vtr.org/maintain/gasoline-octane.html
http://www.team.net/sol/tech/octane_b.html
http://www.geocities.com/runyardj/Octane-Boosters-Info.htm

Give that information a read first, then ask specific questions.

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

Thanks for the links homie! Im gonna mix up a batch of 110 and crank up to 25 psi!