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- From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (People's Park)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Premium gas to clean engine?
- Date: 13 Aug 1992 22:11:01 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- In article <BsxEoG.n03.2@cs.cmu.edu> michal+@cs.cmu.edu (Michal Prussak) writes:
- >
- >I am perfectly aware of the fact that using premium gas in an ordinary
- >engin won't improve performance, but my repair manual ("How to Keep
- >Your Honda Alive...", an excellent book BTW), says that it's a good
- >idea to occasionally fill up with premium. They say this will clean
- >up the engine (from carbon deposits?). So, what does the net think about
- >it?
- >
- >Michal
-
- Is this post a response to the recent stuff on tv about the falseness
- of using premimum gasoline for improved gas mileage, performance...? I'm
- sure someone must have seen it... (a report put out by some group
- supposely refutes many of the benefits that premimum gas may provide.)
-
- My question is what are the popular beliefs in benefits that one might
- receive in using premimum gas. vs. what is being refuted in that report?
-
- By now, you guys are probably saying, "we've discussed this before when
- that question about the knock sensor appeared...."
- But my main concern is what the heck is that report refuting? Anyone
- who knows about this report care to comment? (where can i get this
- report anyways?)
-
- My experience (in my trusty volvo *w/* a knock sensor) is that premimum
- gas does make a difference in *performance*. I don't know about
- gas mileage or the other stuff, but there is definetly a difference in
- performance. When I drive on steep grades, there is noticeably more power.
- Much much better accelerating power on the freeway to pass those idiots
- who drive at 50 MPH in the very LEFT lane. . .
-
- david shy
- shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
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