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Old 02-08-2007, 05:37 PM
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Default High Octane Gas
Anyone know where one can purchase high octane gas (94 or better) in the southern ct area?
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Old 02-08-2007, 07:22 PM
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Default do a search for 'race gas' in your area....some speed shops sell 100 and 104 octane.
plan on spending $5/gallon or more.
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Old 02-08-2007, 10:09 PM
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Default I've always been curious about using race gas..
is there anything that I have to worry about when using high octane gas in this engine?
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Old 02-09-2007, 03:47 AM
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Default wont do jack for you unless you have a chip that can take advantage of it...
stock ecu will run cherry but its programming is already optimized for the 91/93 octane world.

With a chip and switching it into a high octane mode, 100, 104 program it will run a software optimization for the better fuel.
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Use a 104 octane or below fuel which should also specify it is unleaded and you are fine.
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Default Definitely not as much to gain but the stock ECU will pull back 6 degrees of timing or so...
under hard driving so the added octane will benefit, just not as much as if you had a race program.
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Default as long as it's unleaded, no prob.
having said that, there wouldn't be much of a benefit to using race gas without also having the ECU tuning to exploit the higher octane.
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Thanks...at least now I won't be tempted until I get my car chipped...
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Buyer beware it also costs about $5.50 per gallon.
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