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06-16-2009, 12:31 AM
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Octane Booster?
Where I live, there are only a couple gas stations that offer 92 octane. Most offer only 91, and none (that I've found) offer 93 or above. I was curious as to if I should add an octane booster, like the STP Octane Booster I found at Walmart for like $5 per tank. Is this worth looking in to? or is 92 perfectly fine?
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06-16-2009, 01:32 AM
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06-16-2009, 01:44 AM
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92 is fine, but octane booster is fun to use anyways. I know its $$, but it does GREAT things for your engine.
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06-16-2009, 02:48 AM
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06-16-2009, 08:46 AM
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Drives: 2010 IOM Camaro Vin 34334 Join Date: Oct 2008
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Octane booster is a waste of money. Most as Twin said wont even raise a tank of gas 1 point and some actually hurt the octane rating. Dont waste your money on that crap. If you want more octane buy some av gas, or race gas and mix it in with a tank of what you get normally and raise your octane that way.
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06-16-2009, 09:12 AM
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Drives: vrooooom vrooooom Join Date: Dec 2008
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Octane booster works if you buy the right stuff.
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"With a light touch on the brakes, run the revs up a bit. Slip off the brake and bury the throttle. There's a light chirp as tires scratch for bite. Then comes a sub-5.0-second sled ride to 60 mph. A tick over 13.0 sec. and you're through the quarter-mile. It's a rush, of course, but not overly dramatic. Try the same thing with this pair's predecessors of 1970 or so and you'll find yourself in a bit of a wrestling match. Ain't progress wonderful? Maybe yes, and maybe sometimes it's fun to wrestle."
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06-16-2009, 09:15 AM
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Xcelacorp-Octanium
We have done back to back dyno testing and have shown direct improvement s with the product we tested.
Octanium by Xcelacorp In 2006, a team of leading automotive tuners, drivers, and scientists came together with a single goal: create the world’s most powerful octane booster for gasoline powered, high-performance vehicles. After countless hours in the lab and on the dyno, a powerful new formula emerged: Octanium! No other major brand additive can match Octanium for true, measurable increases in gasoline octane.* Using Octanium can raise 93-octane pump gasoline to nearly 100-octane; dramatically more than any other octane additive!* The proprietary blend of ingredients in Octanium is designed to eliminate detonation and pre-ignition by stabilizing and modifying the burn rate of gasoline and increasing the autoignition temperature of the air/fuel mixture. Octanium is the ideal product for high performance factory or custom engines that require the chemical properties of a race fuel to achieve maximum power and reliability. Octanium works great with high-compression normally aspirated engines and supercharged, turbocharged, and nitrous assisted engines. Whatever you drive, Octanium helps your car, truck, SUV, motorcycle, or watercraft run at peak engine performance. *Independent laboratory results at the time of original formulation. We sell cases of this stuff to many people online as well as whosale dealers.It is great stuff and I will continue to use and sell it with confidence. My .02 Andy www.admperformance.com |
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06-16-2009, 09:20 AM
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Drives: vrooooom vrooooom Join Date: Dec 2008
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Told you
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"With a light touch on the brakes, run the revs up a bit. Slip off the brake and bury the throttle. There's a light chirp as tires scratch for bite. Then comes a sub-5.0-second sled ride to 60 mph. A tick over 13.0 sec. and you're through the quarter-mile. It's a rush, of course, but not overly dramatic. Try the same thing with this pair's predecessors of 1970 or so and you'll find yourself in a bit of a wrestling match. Ain't progress wonderful? Maybe yes, and maybe sometimes it's fun to wrestle."
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06-16-2009, 09:26 AM
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AvGas for Octane Boost
Just be careful with AVGAS. Although it's 100 Low Lead. It's not Unleaded. Aviation piston engines still need lead for lubrication of the valve seats. The avgas was lowered to low lead when all of the cars in the 70's were switched to unleaded. Don't run Low Lead in your new car. You'll be visiting the dealer and have an expensive repair bill. But it's still okay to run in 1st Gen Camaros, they don't have any sensors or cats.
You may ask, How I know this? 24 years in the military, 23 of it in Aviation.
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06-16-2009, 09:45 AM
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06-16-2009, 10:16 AM
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The data was from 3 years ago when we became a dealer for the stuff.They sent us samples to evaluate,wanted to make sure it was real....No smoke and mirrors . We aquired data on an untuned car(2004 corvette) recognizing small amounts of knock retard,we saved the data in hptuners scanner format at the time.Then we drained the tank,Put 10 gallons of 93 mixed with the proper ratio octanium per the manufacturer for 100 octane.Ran the car for 5 minutes on the dyno to insure proper fuel in the lines.The results were the same but with no hint of detonation.Then we added spark in 1 degree increments until we reached knock.If you have been around tuning ls engines you know that adding additional timing can make a substantial difference in the output versus leaning out the car. In the end we net 11 rwhp and 12 rwtq with no knock.This was tuned and this was optimized for both street and dyno(No super lean high timing mixture) For 2010 Camaro owners we may do the same to show that it does truly work.If you feel the need to gather more results please contact some of the vendors that sell it....You will find the same results! East Coast CND Automotive 260 Echo Avenue Sound Beach, NY 11789 (631) 744-1150 East Coast Supercharging 562 Route 539 Cream Ridge, NJ 08514 (609) 752-0321 www.eastcoastsupercharging.com Northern WS6 Store 4421 Wakonda Dr. Norwalk, IA 50211 (877) 232-9701 www.WS6store.com Southern 21st Century Musclecars 2530 Tarpley Road, #800 Carrollton, TX 75006 (972) 417-7177 www.21stcenturymusclecars.com ADM Performance 1302 Cowan Street, Building I Lewisville, TX 75057 (214) 228-8782 www.ADMperformance.Com Corvettes of Houston 15350 North Freeway Houston, TX 77090 (281) 821-1222 www.corvettesofhouston.com Creative Customs Unlimited 15086 Highway 6 Rosharon, TX 77583 (713) 429-1416 www.creativecustomsunlimited.com Friendly Chevrolet 2754 N Stemmons Freeway Dallas, TX 75207 (800) 527-5420 www.friendlychevytexas.com G-Force Motorsports 1941 County Road 129 Pearland, TX 77581 (281) 993-5451 Fax: (281) 993-5421 www.gforce-tx.com Galveston Honda 4525 Gulf Freeway La Marque, Texas 77568 (409) 938-4820 www.galvestonhonda.hondamcdealers.com Gulf Coast Performance, Inc. 133 N Friendswood Drive, #333 Friendswood, Texas 77546 (832) 385-9622 www.gulfcoastperformance.com Legaparts 638 Pickering Street Houston, TX 77091 (713) 691-3232 Motorsport Technologies 12500 Oxford Park Drive Houston, Texas 77082 (281) 870-8787 www.motorsporttech.com Thunder Racing 13779 Airline Hwy Baton Rouge, LA 70817 (877) 516-7223 www.thunderracing.com Tommie Vaughn Ford 767 N. Shepherd Dr. Ste. #100 Houston, TX 77008 (713) 869 - 4611 www.tommievaughnmotors.com Western Nine Second Racing 6900 West 17th Avenue, Suite 300E Broomfield, CO 80020 866-430-RACE www.9secondracing.com AZ. Unlimited Car & Truck Accessories LLC PMB-139 Suite105 8490 South Power Road Queen Creek, AZ 85297 480-460-8228 www.Lucky7Trucks.com West Coast A&A Corvette Performance 477-A Lambert Street Oxnard, CA 93036 805-278-4107 or 888-VETTEPRO 805-278-4108 (fax) www.aandacorvette.com International Big Wheels Est. 373 Dhabab st,al-sulmania Riyadh,Saudi Arabia P.O.BOX 271391 Riyadh 11352 Tel.+966554464677,,+966506285851 Fax,+96612351287 www.bigwheels-sa.com International Agencies Co. Ltd. Marine & Technical Services Divisio P.O Box 584 Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain Tel. +973 17728691 Fax +973 17728412 E-Mail: service@intercol.com |
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06-16-2009, 10:42 AM
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I use to you 100 octane in my turbo WRX so I could safely turn up the boost a little.
But I've been told, you really don't get much of a benifit if the car isn't tuned for the higher octane? So I really don't know. |
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06-16-2009, 10:49 AM
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Ok, so I know this is somewhat off topic, but my friend was telling me that a 50/50 mix of methanol and water injected into the motor has the same effect of increasing octane. (making 91 octane act as 115+ octane)
is this true? I'm not the most knowledgeable person in the world regarding these matters, so I figured you guys would be better to ask. |
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06-16-2009, 11:55 AM
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