regular gas and octane boost?
You'd have to spend so much money in octane booster that it'd never be worth your while. Remember that when they're saying that it raises the octane a point, they're talking about 0.1 of an octane.
Our cars are designed to be run on 91 or better, anything less and you get shitty gas mileage and risk frying your pistons.
Our cars are designed to be run on 91 or better, anything less and you get shitty gas mileage and risk frying your pistons.
Originally Posted by Redneck Z
Sure, but you probably won't save any money.
Ya, seriously, the good octane booster costs $5-$6 a bottle at least. Figure 20 cents more per gallon for super verses regular and your tank being almost completely empty being 15 gallons...it costs $3 more to buy the super. Unless you can find cheap octane booster (good stuff, not STP crappy stuff). It's better to just get the super at the pump...as horrible as it is to spend $40+ to fill up your tank that lasts only 300 - 350 miles if you're lucking.
how about adding tolulene from the chemical supply store? Do a search on tolulene and there are a lot of hits or homemade octane booster. I have run it in my 00 ss and liked it alot.
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Originally Posted by Starz T/A 17
Ive been runing 87 octain for a while now w/ price over $3 a gallion and have a friend with a 99 camaro SS that runs nothing but 87 since he got his car. He has never had any problems.
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Originally Posted by Zymosis
Ugh, 87! My car felt like it would fall on its face with that, (the one time I put it in) You should have considered the fact that it 'requires' premium when you bought the car.
It's not worth the money to run octane boost instead of 93. I usually run both for a little (really little) kick...
I hate to have to baby it around to keep my gas mileage up...
QUOTE: Ive been runing 87 octain for a while now w/ price over $3 a gallion and have a friend with a 99 camaro SS that runs nothing but 87 since he got his car. He has never had any problems.
I'd rather sell my car and get a honda than run 87 octane. Why buy a sports car if you aren't willing to put in the kind of gas it needs? Your car was tuned on 93 octane from the factory and runs 28 degrees timing. I wouldn't use anything less than 91 octane just to save a couple bucks. It's a V8 not a VTEC.
I'd rather sell my car and get a honda than run 87 octane. Why buy a sports car if you aren't willing to put in the kind of gas it needs? Your car was tuned on 93 octane from the factory and runs 28 degrees timing. I wouldn't use anything less than 91 octane just to save a couple bucks. It's a V8 not a VTEC.
Here's a helpful formula for those of you looking for octane boosters:
Final octane = (volume of gas*octane of gas)+(volume of booster*octane of booster)
......................................>volume of gas + volume of booster
A bottle of octane booster is so small compared to the volume of gasoline you put it into, that the octane booster would have to have a ridiculously high octane rating to be worth it. It's better to just run 93/91 than the commercially available "octane booster in a bottle." You can get a viable octane increase from certain chemicals but you need to know what you're doing to mix them.
Also, 87 octane in and of itself, is not harmful to your car. Only when you put it under load and it pings will damage result. If your car is a fairly stock daily driver and you just need to get around, you can run 87 IF YOU DON'T GET ON IT. That being said, my car is a 99% stock daily driver but I run 93 because I don't want to limit myself as to when I can and can't play. I bought the car for fun so I don't care that 93 is expensive. However, I'm livid that gas prices have gone up over 2 dollars in 7 years (the majority of it in the last month) when it took it over a century to get over 1 dollar. But that is another rant for another thread.
HTH
Final octane = (volume of gas*octane of gas)+(volume of booster*octane of booster)
......................................>volume of gas + volume of booster
A bottle of octane booster is so small compared to the volume of gasoline you put it into, that the octane booster would have to have a ridiculously high octane rating to be worth it. It's better to just run 93/91 than the commercially available "octane booster in a bottle." You can get a viable octane increase from certain chemicals but you need to know what you're doing to mix them.
Also, 87 octane in and of itself, is not harmful to your car. Only when you put it under load and it pings will damage result. If your car is a fairly stock daily driver and you just need to get around, you can run 87 IF YOU DON'T GET ON IT. That being said, my car is a 99% stock daily driver but I run 93 because I don't want to limit myself as to when I can and can't play. I bought the car for fun so I don't care that 93 is expensive. However, I'm livid that gas prices have gone up over 2 dollars in 7 years (the majority of it in the last month) when it took it over a century to get over 1 dollar. But that is another rant for another thread.
HTH
I was running 87 forever. its ok as long as you don't get on it. I would just make sure i was on E and then put 93 in it when i would go to the track. Except this last Sunday i forgot to put 93 in it and well.....