[Shotimes] Gas

[Zach Leahy]

I find that the fuel choice can be directly dictated by how you plan
to drive.  The "new" 92 get mid-grade at best when I fill up, but the
93, with the engine being modified takes significant drop in power
even when bumping down from 92/93 to 89.  If you think I am crazy,
yall can come and pay for a few tanks of gas and try it out.  Now, the
93 is not stock by any means, and i think that has a lot to do with
it.  I demand a lot from that car as well, so given the sum of all of
that... the 93 gets premium almost always.  the exception to this is
if I know I will be driving hundreds of highway miles with that car.

The stock 92 though runs fine on 87, and will probably be run on that
regularly since it is just my commuter now.  It gets run through the
RPMS sometimes, but not too often.  It seems perfectly happy with
normal gas.  Pretty much if you have a car that has been modified to
the point that lower octane gas does not give the required
performance, youwould know that already.

Z



On Apr 8, 2005 10:09 AM, Dave Garber <dgarber@servicelinklp.com> wrote:
> Been running 87 in my SHO's for the last few years with no ill-effects.
> The 95, 94, 91, 97 and 99 all seem(ed) fine with it. When it's hot out,
> if I stab the throttle on either of my remaining SHO's (91 and 99), I
> get a quick ping out of it. But it's nothing even remotely severe enough
> to warrant running over 87 octane.
> 
> 
> Dave Garber
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Doug Copeland
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 9:37 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] Gas
> 
> Somehow gas prices seem to increase faster than my paychecks do.  Gas in
> my town went up like $.20 in the past week or so, and it's driving me
> crazy. Yesterday when i was at the pump i noticed that the difference
> from regular (87) to mid grade (89) was $.10 a gallon as normal, but the
> difference from mid (89) to premium (93) was $.14 instead of the normal
> $.10 a gallon. Any clues on why the variance?
> 
> Also, i know people have talked about this before, but i can't remember
> the outcome.  Is there a noticeable difference between using regular or
> mid grade and premium.  I've always put premium in my SHO, but that's
> just because i was told to.  I know somebody in the past said they ran
> regular and it ran fine, but i was wondering what other people were
> using.  Sometimes when i go to the pump i get the urge to save my self
> that little bit of money and pump the cheaper stuff.
> 
> Doug
> 95 mtx
> 168k (and rising too fast)
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