Octane Booster
12-19-2003, 12:15 AM
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Octane Booster
Any of you guys try octane boosters? I know some crazy guys are mixing neat toluene & pump gas to bump up their octane in especially in california with only 91. 
12-19-2003, 12:19 AM
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i put in 101 octane gas from the track in my car once... it ran same times that it ran when it had 93 octane gas... i dun think it gives us any more whp like on the new accords.
12-19-2003, 01:49 PM
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Re: Octane Booster
Originally posted by ronnie0738
I know some crazy guys are mixing neat toluene
I know some crazy guys are mixing neat toluene
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12-19-2003, 02:09 PM
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Originally posted by kevin79925
i put in 101 octane gas from the track in my car once... it ran same times that it ran when it had 93 octane gas... i dun think it gives us any more whp like on the new accords.
i put in 101 octane gas from the track in my car once... it ran same times that it ran when it had 93 octane gas... i dun think it gives us any more whp like on the new accords.
IMO, CA's 91 octane is not too great and always got a bit more punch with 93-95 octane (by mixing-in) 100-octane 76. (It is quite possible that the gains had NOTHING to due with the octane, but with the different fractions.
12-19-2003, 02:24 PM
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Originally posted by EricL
93 might be the sweet spot.
93 might be the sweet spot.
It doesn't make up for all the snow and cold weather we get tho'
There are a few places that sell 101-103 race gas around here. Most of the oldtimers know where the places are. It's a word of mouth type of thing. My step-dad clued me into a place, but I don't have a need for it.
12-19-2003, 02:25 PM
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I've read(somewhere recently) that the detergents in higher octane gas can actually provide less spark than lower octane gasses...
I think it was on CNN somewhere...I'll see if I can't find it.
I think it was on CNN somewhere...I'll see if I can't find it.
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as I understand it what we call octane is really "anti-knock factor" and that a car preforms best at the lowest octane possible without any knocking and retarding of timing (thus power loss) so if you aren't experiancing power loss from knocking boosting the octane should do anything (it might actually reduce performance) That's just what's I've been taught I could completely off base though, prehaps some of our wiser memeber can shed a little more light on it.
BTW I run Gate 93
BTW I run Gate 93
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I've been meaning to try a bottle of this to see if I can get my timing retard down to 0. If it works it's cheaper than race fuel.
torco race fuel concentrate
-> power products -> accelerator
torco race fuel concentrate
-> power products -> accelerator
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