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2/05/2004
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Say you have 1 gallon of gas in your tank and you add a bottle of octane booster, will this cause any damage, or will it help to improve your time at the track?
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Robert
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2/05/2004
18:21:59
| RE: Octane Booster, and 1 gallon of gas
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If a shot of gin makes me feel good, will a gallon make me feel better?
Spend your time educating yourself before posting such a silly question.
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Alcoholic
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2/05/2004
18:49:48
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Yes.
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Greg
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2/05/2004
19:31:09
|  RE: Octane Booster, and 1 gallon of gas
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You know I read a really big thing about this a long while back and bassically it went something like this... This is straight from a track racer if I remember correctly...
Evidently a lower octane gas will burn faster and hotter than a higher octane gas... Hint "spark knocking"... Spark Knocking is where the gas is being ignited from the heat built up in the cylinder "before the spark plug can spark to ignite it" and the fuel will ignite before the piston will get to TDC... This is why the resort or solution to this is to put a higher octane gas in the engine which takes a lot of heat to ignite... Racers will use low octane gas in their engines to crank them simply because the high octane gas used in them will not ignite easy enough to get it going... Racers will also use high octane gas "instead of the really high octane gas, racing fuel" in their cars to quallify with better track times for better starting possitions, but in doing so they will pull their plugs out to reallize that they have melted or burned the alluminum right off of the tops of the pistons which is obvious from the alluminum left on the plugs...
High octane gas on the other hand will burn slower and more effecient than lower octane fuels and in turn you will get better fuel mileage from the higher octane fuel...
So you may just wind up with some sort of skip from fuel not burning right...
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fbi
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2/06/2004
11:50:07
| RE: Octane Booster, and 1 gallon of gas
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a gallon of gin would make you sick. so is that what you are saying about the octane booster?
its still unclear if it will help my track time or not.
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AmsoilSponsor
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2/06/2004
12:06:30
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Maybe you will find all of this to be helpful:
Most production street vehicles, even high performance ones, are not going to benefit from anything higher than the recommended octane. So it only really becomes an issue if you are unfortunate enough to live in a state that has made unavailable the octane your engine was intended to burn (like California).
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I am not a qualified expert. My Bro-In-Law owns a couple of gasoline stations, and I have read some articles. Here is what I know and correct me if you must.
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It’s been my observation that if an engine does not require high-octane fuel, it will run cleaner and better on the fuel it was designed for.
Octane rating is a measure of the fuel's resistance to pre-ignition. High-octane is specified by manufacturers when the engine requires it. High compression, high temps, or turbo engines will do better with high octane due to its slower burn rate.
Basically, the numbers you see at the pumps only indicate the anti-knock index of the fuel. It is measured using RON + MON and the divided by 2 (R+M)/2. In short, RON (Research Octane Number) measures the fuel's anti-knock index simulating light load, typical street, normal driving conditions. MON (Motor Octane Number) measures the fuel's anti-knock index simulating high-speed, high load conditions.
They used to post the RON and MON octane numbers in small print on the Sunoco pumps but I haven't noticed this lately.
Run what your owners mauual specifies. Put the high-octane in an engine designed for 87 and you have incomplete combustion ... and a waste of 20 cents per gallon.
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Consider AMSOIL Series 2000 OCTANE BOOST for the track events !!
IMHO ... Not to be used as a daily fuel additive. Use only for qualifying runs and the actual racing event.
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Most "Octane Boosters" use the phrase "up to",
as in "raises" the Octane Level "up to" 10 points ... so you may only go up 1-9 points, and maybe 10.
HERE IS THE CATCH
a point is --- (unfortunately) ... just a decimal point.
Therefore:
"10 points" brings you from 93 octane to 94
"5 points" brings you from 93 octane to 93.5
"1 point" brings you from 93 octane to 93.1
For this reason, I am not a big fan of the products.
However, while we are on the topic, ...
I'll promote Amsoil Series 2000 Amsoil Boost.
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Amsoil Series 2000 Octane Boost
Improves the performance of all two-cycle and four-cycle gasoline-fueled engines. Just one treatment significantly increases engine response and power. AMSOIL Octane Boost reduces engine knock, improves ignition, helps fuel burn cleaner and inhibits corrosion. Recommended for all high performance off-road and racing applications. Increases octane number by up to 7 points.
Product Code: AOB
Performance Features - Improves performance, Maximizes power, Improves ignition, Helps fuel burn cleaner, Removes carbon deposits, Reduces engine knock, Improves responsiveness, Inhibits corrosion
Steven Roark , Amsoil Dealer , Proud Sponsor of www.DodgeDakotas.com
AMSOIL Synthetic Motor Oils, Lubricants, Filtration, and Truck Care Products
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robert
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2/07/2004
05:18:18
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The simple answer is I doubt the car would run at all or very poorly.
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Kris Stewart
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3/03/2006
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I have started puting 20oz of octain booster for every 5 gallons of gas in my 1996 Dodge Dakota. Is this this helping my engine in any way or am I just wasteing my money?
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ck98daksport
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3/03/2006
14:47:47
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wasting both your time and your money. personal experiance, it does nothing noticable for the engine. Now if you want to see results by using something, use a bottle of concentrated fuel system cleaner and after the first tank runs through check the mileage, it's gone up.
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N56629
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3/04/2006
08:57:21
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The first thing you have to do, Kris, is ask yourself why you started doing this in the first place. Why did you think you needed the octane booster? What did you expect to get out of it?
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