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- From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
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- Subject: Re: Premium gas to clean engine?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.203007.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 11:00:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.015818.18321@leland.Stanford.EDU>, eap@leland.Stanford.EDU (Eric Perozziello) 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?
- >>
-
- Over here (Australia) one of our more serious car magazines (Wheels) took the
- new Volvo for a test drive and found it impossible to get the car running
- anywhere near the quoted factory performance. Then they read the small print
- and found that these figures only applied if premium unleaded was used. They
- tried it and Voila! instant power gain of something like 10-20 horses. I
- realise this won't apply to all cars but does show that in certain engine
- conditions this sort of fuel is exactly what is claimed.
-
- regs
-
- Rob
-