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poinker 03-16-2009 11:13 AM

gas choice?
 
regular, midgrade, or premium?

What do you plan on using?

undrcop2010 03-16-2009 11:14 AM

unleaded

GrnMchin 03-16-2009 11:17 AM

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8012

Looks like premium

Angrybird 12 03-16-2009 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poinker (Post 340814)
regular, unleaded, or premium?

What do you plan on using?

Around here we have a choice of regular (87), midgrade (89) or premimum (93-94) , all by federal law are unleaded for highway use...

I will use regular...(unleaded of course)

CamaroSpike23 03-16-2009 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poinker (Post 340814)
regular, unleaded, or premium?

What do you plan on using?

:rolleyes::laughabove:

poinker 03-16-2009 11:24 AM

lol, i meant regular, midgrade, premium

BowtieGuy 03-16-2009 11:38 AM

Do you want the best performance and knock protection? Then you will get premium (91+). Do you want to cheap out? Then get whatever low grade 10% ethanol mix you can find.

Mr_Draco 03-16-2009 11:42 AM

For me it depends on the price difference between Regular and Premium. When it was 15 to 20 cents a gallon difference I was buying premium. Price is going back up here with Regular at $1.95 and Premium at $3.10

BowtieGuy 03-16-2009 11:49 AM

Jesus, 87 is $1.69 in OK. 91 is only $1.91.

Angrybird 12 03-16-2009 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BowtieGuy (Post 340875)
Do you want the best performance and knock protection? Then you will get premium (91+). Do you want to cheap out? Then get whatever low grade 10% ethanol mix you can find.

If you talk to the GM engineers, The car is recommended for regular gas.. You buy premimum you are just wasting money and gas the SS guys can use ...

If the car was recommended for premimum but can use regular you would be partially right. because of all the sensors on these engines it can detect what grade gas is bing used and retune it'self accordingly. so knocking is not a problem..but performance will be downgraded some.. My Sky and HHR are recommended for premimum but they can use regular, which I use most of the time. and back when the gas went to $4.50 a gallon there was no premimum...

BowtieGuy 03-16-2009 01:00 PM

Why not use premium? It's just like why not use synthetic oil. It can't do anything but help, and the only difference it cost. If you want the best for your car, and the price difference is agreeable with you, go for it.

Mr. Wyndham 03-16-2009 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BowtieGuy (Post 341087)
Why not use premium? It's just like why not use synthetic oil.

For the V8...I agree with this logic.

But it won't do anything for the V6. It was fuel-mapped FOR regular, certified on regular, and reccomends regular...there is no benefit in running higher octane in this engine.:iono:

CamaroSpike23 03-16-2009 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragoneye (Post 341117)
For the V8...I agree with this logic.

But it won't do anything for the V6. It was fuel-mapped FOR regular, certified on regular, and reccomends regular...there is no benefit in running higher octane in this engine.:iono:


till you throw TT's on it....lol either motor will have premium ran in it if I'm filling it up.

Angrybird 12 03-16-2009 02:21 PM

Since this is the V6 powertrain section I assumed this was talking only about the V6.
Maybe the title should reflect that.


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