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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: octane boosters (was Re: Broquet: Fuel Catalyst)
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- Date: 4 Sep 92 04:59:38 GMT
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- samblane@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Sean Samblanet) writes:
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- >A question along these lines. Does toluene or 104 octane boost or any
- >octane booster raise the octane rating the same amount for 87 octane
- >as 93 or 94 premium fuel? 100 octane fuel is much more expensive($3.50/gal)
- >and hard to find. Can any additive boost 94 octane to about 100 octane?
-
- Dunno. I've never tried it with anything other than "premium" from
- the pump. I don't have anyway to test octane (yet) so anything I told
- you would be totally subjective. Easiest thing to do is to test
- a mix against a known octane fuel under similar conditions.
-
- john
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