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posted October 22, 2001 10:26 AM
Hey Fish, why the pic of....
a gas pump with 94 octane?
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posted October 22, 2001 04:37 PM
oh,,, yer not allowed to have that in the US... I think 93 is the highest, no? Avaiable at almost every Chevron ion Canada is 94 oct, and yes it's by the same oct. calculation
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posted October 22, 2001 04:43 PM
Funny you mention that because I just saw 110 octane at a holiday gas station down the road(MN! I couldn't believe it only $1.54 / gallon! What would of that done to my bike if I would of went with the 110??? From what I understand, if you can't use the extra octane, if will carbon up stuff??? Is this correct???
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posted October 22, 2001 04:45 PM
I have to run out to the pump and check how they caculate it (ron or mon) so we can compare.... very cool!
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posted October 23, 2001 03:19 AM
Nope, Sunoco's here in Detroit all have 94 octane fuel. That's why I thought it was a strange photo, it's what I always run.
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posted October 23, 2001 09:49 AM
I've never seen 94 octane.
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posted October 23, 2001 09:56 AM
95 octane is standard in uk and 98 super is also available.
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posted October 23, 2001 09:58 AM
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posted October 23, 2001 10:02 AM
I can see 2 things...
1) it says off road use only
2) I cant tell what meathod the octane rating is calculated with..
Now I have travelled all around the US and I havent seen anything higher than 92 so I assume that pump must be near a racetrack?
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posted October 23, 2001 10:04 AM
It's at a racetrack, DIS. There are 2 stations in Daytona that sell 101 for street use.
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fish_antlers
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posted October 23, 2001 10:05 AM
what's the meathod of octane calculation?
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posted October 23, 2001 10:10 AM
 Edited By: DaveInDaytona on 23 Oct 2001 11:19
I'll have to go look and get back to you, I don't run it because it's wasted on my bike. I'll run by there and check it out. I run the 93 that's available everywhere here - Amoco, Texaco, Shell, Citgo, or Hess.
BTW the 110 is (R+M)/2 method, I just liked that picture.
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posted October 23, 2001 10:22 AM
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posted October 23, 2001 10:42 AM
94
sunoco sells 94 here in Ct.
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saltire
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posted October 23, 2001 10:46 AM
This is the badge of my tank and now i know why uk bikes are faster.Well thats what im going to tell zturbo!
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posted October 23, 2001 10:48 AM
uk uses RON.... US uses MON methinks...
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posted October 23, 2001 10:59 AM
Actually, the feds require that a fuels octane rating in the USA is marked using the R+M/2 method.
No fuel in the USA for road use, will have any other type of rating.
Race gas at the tracks is another story.
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posted October 23, 2001 12:04 PM
Edited By: ZX12R on 23 Oct 2001 13:07
All Sunocos in NY State sell 94 octane.
My Dad owns one and of this I am sure as I get Gas there.
And I used to run the convience store.
They actually only have 2 Octanes in their underground tanks.
The pumps mix the two together to form all the octanes in between.
The stations with the newer units sell (87,89,93,94)
And... There is a station down the road
(also a Sunoco) that sells Turbo Blue out of a large tank.
Rules are you can't pump it directly into a vehicle, but you can fill cans.
It's like 104 or 109 octane and about 3.50 a gallon or some shit like dat.
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posted October 23, 2001 12:58 PM
A gas station near a 1/2 mile oval dirt track sells 106 in my neck o the woods. An idiot I used to work for thought it would be kewl to put some avaition fuel in his 12 cylinder Jag. After 160 miles of very "Peppy" performance he needed a new engine due to valve failure.
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posted October 23, 2001 01:41 PM
Just bought gas.... it is (r+m)/2 here so that's what we're talking about...
and I wish I could have found that 93+ octane on my road trips in the US... I remember several times kicking my Ducati that was tuned to run on 94 up in the high sierras cuz all I could get was watered down 87.... it would barely run.. then I remember that little bottle of octane boost leaking all over my sleeping bag.... arghhhhhhh!
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