Octane boosters
Burning Brakes
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I've heard that Boostane is the best out there...But that's mostly from the GTR forums. So who knows...We have 101 at the pump in Phoenix in certain places but $7.75/gal isn't cheap. Better than VP Race Fuel 5 gallon pails though...nearly $15/gal.
Timmins? I go up to Lake Temagami every year...in fact I'll be there in a couple weeks. Beautiful up there...but winter is long.
Timmins? I go up to Lake Temagami every year...in fact I'll be there in a couple weeks. Beautiful up there...but winter is long.
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Pro
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From: Timmins Ontario
I've heard that Boostane is the best out there...But that's mostly from the GTR forums. So who knows...We have 101 at the pump in Phoenix in certain places but $7.75/gal isn't cheap. Better than VP Race Fuel 5 gallon pails though...nearly $15/gal.
Timmins? I go up to Lake Temagami every year...in fact I'll be there in a couple weeks. Beautiful up there...but winter is long.
Timmins? I go up to Lake Temagami every year...in fact I'll be there in a couple weeks. Beautiful up there...but winter is long.
if not , well , you know what they're like lol
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Just don't tune it with a booster in the fuel. Then send the car and owner out with out instruction's to use booster or sell or offer to sell or give the owner any booster to take along and know the car had 1600 miles to get home. The engine never recovered!
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Le Mans Master
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But your actual point about tuning for a higher octane level (which boosters do not give you) is right.
I just want to make sure the horse is truly dead - octane boosters do nothing. Race fuel concentrates do.
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St. Jude Donor '08
The after market world is full of crappy tuners and shops who don't really give a crap. There are certainly some that do, but they are few and far between...
To tune someone's car on higher octane, and then not tell them, allowing them to assume that pump fuel will suffice, is unscrupulous to say the least...
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Safety Car
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You can tune with "octane boosters" in the fuel just like you can tune with a chewable Flintstone's vitamin dissolved in the fuel... neither does anything.
But your actual point about tuning for a higher octane level (which boosters do not give you) is right.
I just want to make sure the horse is truly dead - octane boosters do nothing. Race fuel concentrates do.
But your actual point about tuning for a higher octane level (which boosters do not give you) is right.
I just want to make sure the horse is truly dead - octane boosters do nothing. Race fuel concentrates do.
Le Mans Master
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I don't know if you are considering Torco a race fuel concentrate or an octane booster. I can assure you it does work, I tested it. With half a can in a full tank of gas I had no KR, and 25 degrees of timing Vs. slight KR and 24 degrees of timing without Torco. Same conditions.
104+, STP, NOS, all those are garbage to me. We have consumer protection laws but apparently they don't apply to "mechanic in a can".
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I don't know if you are considering Torco a race fuel concentrate or an octane booster. I can assure you it does work, I tested it. With half a can in a full tank of gas I had no KR, and 25 degrees of timing Vs. slight KR and 24 degrees of timing without Torco. Same conditions.
cant seem to find Boostane or Race Fuel though
Le Mans Master
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There is actually an octane booster sold at the local Walmart that explains on the back that most octane boosters were only one tenth of a point but their's is not. I know for a fact it works because if I don't run enough octane in my motocross bike it pings really badly. And I had to run some low octane fuel and I grabbed some of that and it completely made the pinging go away.
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Burning Brakes
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Torco. Hands down. I've ran 4 cans b4 I headed out for a night of racing. Car ran like a scolded dog. Edit: Not 4 cans in 1 tank. 4 cans on 4 different nights. I did chug 1 can per night so.
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I've heard that Boostane is the best out there...But that's mostly from the GTR forums. So who knows...We have 101 at the pump in Phoenix in certain places but $7.75/gal isn't cheap. Better than VP Race Fuel 5 gallon pails though...nearly $15/gal.
Timmins? I go up to Lake Temagami every year...in fact I'll be there in a couple weeks. Beautiful up there...but winter is long.
Timmins? I go up to Lake Temagami every year...in fact I'll be there in a couple weeks. Beautiful up there...but winter is long.
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Drifting
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Wife and I had the Z up in Ontario this weekend and I was forced to put 89 octane in. I knew I wasn't going to beat on it but man o man it was shaking and knocking just trying to take off normal. Finally found some 91 and it was a little better but 93 was impossible for me to find there. Seems stations are far and few between up there as it is. I truly feel bad for you.