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Old 05-03-2011, 02:02 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Russell James View Post
Most of the top name brand octane boosters do work quite well. You often have to use more than one bottle to notice anything in a full tank.

I had a street/strip car for a while with a 10.75 to 1 C/R 454 BBC. It was very sensitive to octane. With just 93 in the tank it would knock like you were dropping marbles in a tin can at throttle tip in. 2 bottles of octane boost in the tank and it screamed without a single knock. At that time I was using 104+ brand.

Those that don't think it works have never had a car that really needed a little more octane. It won't make 93 into race gas. But if you just need a point or two of octane, the good stuff works pretty good.
The "octane boosters" increase octane by a tenth of a pont. It would take ten bottles to go from 93 to 94 octane. Your "point or two" argument shows how little you know about it.

Oh, my last car-supercharged V8 10:1 compression running 11PSI of boost.
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