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Re: Octane - how to boost
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Posted by turbocon86 (more from turbocon86) on Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:12:05 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Octane - how to boost, frank [Profile/Gallery] , Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:47:23
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You should be fine with the super unleaded gas sold in your area if you have no modifications.

The only guaranteed way to get octane increase is to mix some gas from your
local race track in your tank. Generally it's about 105 octane. Some stations also sell race gas. There is one in my area (a Sonoco) that has a separate pump with 104 octane. This station is frequented by the Ninja/road rocket crowd.

There are people out there that make their own home-brew octane booster. The recepie: 100oz of toulene for octane boost, 25oz of mineral spirits (cleaning agent), 3oz of transmission fluid (lubricating agent). This is usually what's in the off-the-shelf octane boosters. You'd need to pour about 16 bottles of it in your engine though to see and real octane boost. This home-brew recepie is about $4-6 a gallon. A 10% mix with 92 octane pump gas will give you 94.2 octane, a 20% mix will give you 94.6 octane, a 30% mix will give you 98.6 octane. You can buy toluene at most paint stores. My brother-in-law was running this recepie in his highly modified Buick Grand National for a couple years with no ill effects. Now we just go to the Sunoco with the race gas.


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