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Old 01-07-2001, 04:55 AM
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What is the highest octane available in California?

I think most of the folks have said they get 92 or 93 octane with 92 being the highest in California/Los Angeles. Is this so?

If someone knows different or the hows and whys, could they explain?

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Theres a 76 that sells 100 octane but its in San Jose though .
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by type-S girl:
Theres a 76 that sells 100 octane but its in San Jose though .</font>
Is that the only 76 station in the Bay Area with the 100 octane? Did you try it?

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thats the only one that I know of. I haven't tried it in my CL yet.
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If you ever try it, please let me know if you think it helps out power, etc.
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there is one out here too...they all over the place.....and yes, i can feel the difference when i put it in. Only problem is that it costs about 4$ a gallon

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Thanks! If you ever here of a 76 station that has 100 octane in the LA/West LA area, let me know. I hate the thought of calling every 76 station in Los Angles, Pasadena, Valley, etc...
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by EricL:
Thanks! If you ever here of a 76 station that has 100 octane in the LA/West LA area, let me know. I hate the thought of calling every 76 station in Los Angles, Pasadena, Valley, etc...</font>
There used to be an independent station that sold 104 octane at the bottom of Chautauqua Cyn near Pacific Coast Hwy. I haven't been by in a while, though; I don't know if it's still there.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Water Rabbit:
There used to be an independent station that sold 104 octane at the bottom of Chautauqua Cyn near Pacific Coast Hwy. I haven't been by in a while, though; I don't know if it's still there.
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Damn... the highest I've ever seen in NY or anywhere in the northeast for that matter is 93octane. Maybe 94.

I want me some 104 octane!!! Think one of you guys could ship me some???

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Water Rabbit:
There used to be an independent station that sold 104 octane at the bottom of Chautauqua Cyn near Pacific Coast Hwy. I haven't been by in a while, though; I don't know if it's still there.

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As I was reading this thread I was thinking about that station, but you beat me to it.


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There is a place in Los Banos, I think it's a Chevron that sells something above 100 out of the pump. I wanna say it's 102. I don't think there is anywhere in Fresno that sells it, but I've heard of people buying 108 out of the pump back east. 108's like racing fuel!!!! Then again, I think 102 is considered racing fuel. I wonder what my 2.3CL woudl run like on that stuff since I can defidently notice a substantial difference between the 87 and the 92 (Octane sensor retards the timing... ...a lot!).

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Old 01-08-2001, 09:33 PM
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Theres this stuff called Clean Power than you add to your gas that will boost your octane to 102 or 104 if you're using 92.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by soopa:
Damn... the highest I've ever seen in NY or anywhere in the northeast for that matter is 93octane. Maybe 94.

I want me some 104 octane!!! Think one of you guys could ship me some???

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Hey Soop.... go to your closest local small plane airport. That's avgas!

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