Do I need to use premium on road trips?
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Re:Do I need to use premium on road trips?
Originally Posted by BlackLabelBoardr
My car is N/A and I always use premium, sometimes you get a little better mpg, plus i hear its alot healthier and better for engine life.
Originally Posted by BlackLabelBoardr
I mena, i have a SOHC VTEC, and i could care less, with the greddy kit and a 50 shot of ZEX and my other mods, it wouldnt make a bit of difference if i had an EX or DX, but i bet if i did have a B18 it would be different, but igot stuck with the ex to get outta a lease on a prevoius car
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Re:Do I need to use premium on road trips?
Get the higher octane, and increase the life of your engine, and save you a headache later...
Are we going to get cheap with 10-20 cents more on gas? Or should we just settle for fucked up pistons, ringlands, and a block for being stupid and letting DETONATION OWN YOU! :P
Get 91+ octane.
If I had my choice, I'd be using higher octane when I'm boosted. ----, I like to run off 100 octane or even the 114 octane when I'm blowing off nitrous.
Are we going to get cheap with 10-20 cents more on gas? Or should we just settle for fucked up pistons, ringlands, and a block for being stupid and letting DETONATION OWN YOU! :P
Get 91+ octane.
If I had my choice, I'd be using higher octane when I'm boosted. ----, I like to run off 100 octane or even the 114 octane when I'm blowing off nitrous.
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Re:Do I need to use premium on road trips?
haha.. You guys are killing me !!
#1 oct. boosters that come in a bottle will take 93oct. all the way up to 93.8oct !! What a deal !!! Bottled "oct. boosters" are pointless.
#2 If your car doesn't need 91+ oct. then don't be dumb and put 93' oct in it !! 93oct is harder to burn than 87oct. and is more like to leave deposits and crap in the cylinders and crap. Not to meantion sense your getting a less effecnt burn the car will get less proformance and less gas mileage. It may "feel faster", but to be honest my car "feels faster" after I wash it, hehe... The Butt Dyno is WAY OFF.
I'd only run 93oct. in some of the cars with B16/b18 ( non LS motors ), but for the good ole D16/D15 unless you've radically changed the compression ratio, or added FI, your wasting your money, and profromance...
Don't waste money that could be going to a HMT on 93oct. ( OR if your going to have a B-series engine you better save your money for when something breaks or just stops working ).
#1 oct. boosters that come in a bottle will take 93oct. all the way up to 93.8oct !! What a deal !!! Bottled "oct. boosters" are pointless.
#2 If your car doesn't need 91+ oct. then don't be dumb and put 93' oct in it !! 93oct is harder to burn than 87oct. and is more like to leave deposits and crap in the cylinders and crap. Not to meantion sense your getting a less effecnt burn the car will get less proformance and less gas mileage. It may "feel faster", but to be honest my car "feels faster" after I wash it, hehe... The Butt Dyno is WAY OFF.
I'd only run 93oct. in some of the cars with B16/b18 ( non LS motors ), but for the good ole D16/D15 unless you've radically changed the compression ratio, or added FI, your wasting your money, and profromance...
Don't waste money that could be going to a HMT on 93oct. ( OR if your going to have a B-series engine you better save your money for when something breaks or just stops working ).
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Re:Do I need to use premium on road trips?
you might want to look at propane injection, someone on www.turboforum.net uses it in his MR2, he uses reg gas and the propane.
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Re:Do I need to use premium on road trips?
Hahah thats my fault....Im not talkin on my 99 civic EX, i meant my daily driver POS. I have a 93 civic ex with liek 160K i use for work, and I run premium on it cuz i drive about 1000 miles every two weeks or so for work and use premium, and it seemd to work a bit better than reg, eventho i doubt it makes a difference on my engine with 160k, but even so. Theres no way in HELL id be puttin thos kinda miles on a car i spent $$$$$ to modify and boost. 
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Re:Do I need to use premium on road trips?
Originally Posted by claytonsmith
buy regular and dump a half a gallon of tolulene in it 
( by the way thats an incredibly precise measurment i just gave you 
) that'll give you high octane gas
( by the way thats an incredibly precise measurment i just gave you ) that'll give you high octane gas
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Re:Do I need to use premium on road trips?
Originally Posted by pa2play
i'm not sure how the timing will be, don't have it on yet, but i'm guessing that it will be moved up or back a bit with the AFC hack, not positive on that though.
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