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Which Gas do you use?

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#1 ·
which gas do you use?
and which gas station? ie: petro, esso, shell, beaver, etc.
i use the superclean (octane 91) from petro so it stops pinging from the engine.....plus i feel that my gas lasts longer...
Petro all the way...heard scary story from Esso and Shell.
 
#5 ·
Depends on which car your asking about... :D

BP/Amaco 87 octane - 95 Camry
BP/Amaco 89 octane - 76 Corvette, 73 Datsun
BP/Amaco 91/93 octane - 74 Honda
Sunoco 110 Av gas - 81 Monty Carlo, 79 Suzuki

At the track the Vette and the Honda also get Av gas ...$5usd/gal.!
 
#8 ·
Flashmn said:
...BTW, avgas isnt that good to run in a car. Tends to leave alot of carbon deposits.
How else would you run this beast? :D

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Its an NA 406 stroker with a Weiand tunnel ram, dual Demon carbs, Dart heads, RJS 5-gal drag cell w/sump, etc... ...and a narrowed ford 9" rear end. It runs a 10.28 quarter with 5.xx 1/8mi gears :eek: on Mickey drag radials. Its faster than most crotch rockets light to light on the street and with wrinkel walls I can lift the front end off the ground.
...I'm not worried about carbon build up

The Zuk is built the same way (track only)
As for the Vette and the Honda its fine for high hp motors once in a while at the track. We've been using a 93/110 mixture lately when we run our street cars on amature night at the local strip.
 
#10 ·
At home in canada, 87 in the winter, and 89 in the summer, and 91 if i am heading to the drag strip. almost always sunoco.

in the states, 89 or 91, and usually mobil or the exxon valdez.

My supras typical go lean if i stay with the same octane level once i get to the states. So i ussually go for one grade higher octane.

Now thats what i call a FULL CARD MONTE!
nice ride for sure!
 
#20 ·
weve got 3 types here, 95 - 98 - 99 I usually take the 98 coz the 95 has a lead replacement in it, don't think itl do my car any good...

what are these numbers anyways and what effect does it have on your car ?

btw, I live in Belgium
 
#26 ·
jaguar said:
weve got 3 types here, 95 - 98 - 99 I usually take the 98 coz the 95 has a lead replacement in it, don't think itl do my car any good...

what are these numbers anyways and what effect does it have on your car ?

btw, I live in Belgium
Those are Octane level ratings. The long and short of the story is, Octane increases the point at which gasoline ignites making it more stable. Because you're in Belgium, those numbers are probably roughly the equivelant of our 87/89/91/92/94

Here's the LONG answer that Lafora kindly pointed us to :thumbup:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/autos/gasoline-faq/part3.html (page is alittle slow, but worth the wait)