Anyone use Torco?
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Torco ProStock John
Look up additives on their site.
Torco Race Fuels is the first and only race fuel manufacturer to produce a real race fuel concentrate that performs like a race fuel. This product is not an octane boost; it is a race fuel concentrate that transforms a 93-octane super no lead up to a 107-octane race fuel when proper mixing instructions are followed.
http://www.torcoracefuels.com/torcoenter.htm
There is a Corvette forum that swears by this stuff. It's claim is that it can can raise the Octane of gasoline linearly by full points like Xylene does, but as I recall (lost my notes) it only takes 1/2 the volume and price-wise is a little less that Xylene. So instead of hauling around gallons of Xylene which is carcinogenic, this stuff packs the same punch but less volume and safer.
Some chemists (at least that what they said were their credentials) were participating in the discussion, but none had been able to determine the chemical compostion. It's not methanol or xylene for sure.
But the consensus was that it is cheaper and safter than xylene and will raise the octane linearlly by full percentage points up to 106.
It was working particularly well in FI Vettes where the boost was raised but with no knock, ping, or KR after this stuff was added to the tank.
And when the chemists measured the Octane, believe it not, the octane had raised to 106.
I'm sure you can get them to send you a few free samples for testing.
Let us know your results.
Look up additives on their site.
Torco Race Fuels is the first and only race fuel manufacturer to produce a real race fuel concentrate that performs like a race fuel. This product is not an octane boost; it is a race fuel concentrate that transforms a 93-octane super no lead up to a 107-octane race fuel when proper mixing instructions are followed.
http://www.torcoracefuels.com/torcoenter.htm
There is a Corvette forum that swears by this stuff. It's claim is that it can can raise the Octane of gasoline linearly by full points like Xylene does, but as I recall (lost my notes) it only takes 1/2 the volume and price-wise is a little less that Xylene. So instead of hauling around gallons of Xylene which is carcinogenic, this stuff packs the same punch but less volume and safer.
Some chemists (at least that what they said were their credentials) were participating in the discussion, but none had been able to determine the chemical compostion. It's not methanol or xylene for sure.
But the consensus was that it is cheaper and safter than xylene and will raise the octane linearlly by full percentage points up to 106.
It was working particularly well in FI Vettes where the boost was raised but with no knock, ping, or KR after this stuff was added to the tank.
And when the chemists measured the Octane, believe it not, the octane had raised to 106.
I'm sure you can get them to send you a few free samples for testing.
Let us know your results.
Last edited by dlandsvZ28; Nov 8, 2004 at 12:03 AM.
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I have a few customers using it, cars that used to ping thier asses off on 91 octane CA gas, now run 30 degrees of timing and tune thier cars as lean as 14.0:1 A/F ratio and dont get a hint of knock retard..
Im sold on it
Im sold on it
