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Offline garethmk1

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Octane Booster
« on: 03 August 2008, 13:57 »
Anyone use any octane booster ? If so what products ?

Regards,

Gareth
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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #1 on: 03 August 2008, 14:29 »
IMO not necessary unless you are remapped and have the race fuel map installed as you can get 99 RON petrol at the pump.
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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #2 on: 03 August 2008, 14:58 »
A car show (I think 5th Gear, but may be mistaken) actually did a test on these a couple years ago and found that they actually decrease the performance and power output of the car!
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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #3 on: 03 August 2008, 15:02 »
....'Snake Oil'?
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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #4 on: 03 August 2008, 20:47 »
A mag did a check with them too and found zero gains.
use BP102 for more go.
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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #5 on: 03 August 2008, 21:18 »
Im always worried that that BP 102 stuff will blow up my engine or something!! Have any of you used it before??
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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #6 on: 03 August 2008, 21:54 »
not at the moment, its £2.50 a litre :laugh: when i went to buy some when i was going to 1/4 mile day they couldn't operate the pump.You have to get a code to dispense the fuel of the cashier.
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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #7 on: 04 August 2008, 08:57 »
If your wanting a nice wee power boost, get your car mapped to run on 10% methanol.  Or go nuts and stick some toluene in there instead.  It's the stuff the 1200 bhp turbo F1 cars used to run.
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Offline chungster

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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #8 on: 05 August 2008, 21:21 »
I tend to use Millers Octane Plus when doing track days (in case I can't get V Power locally)

Not tried the Millers CVL Turbo stuff yet tho...



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Re: Octane Booster
« Reply #9 on: 07 August 2008, 15:20 »
Quote from: garethmk1 on 03 August 2008, 13:57
Anyone use any octane booster ? If so what products ?

Regards,

Gareth

I was advised by Awesome to get some if i ran into trouble getting hold of 98 or 99 Ron fuel! So if I couldn't find a garage with the good stuff I could fill up on the sh!te and top it up with the octane booster! Hope this helps!
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