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PostSubject: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 10:29 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KNbbdQv3E&feature=related
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 10:46 am

Do you think that this is accurate or that octane boosters only serve the purpose of stoping pre ignition but dont add HP or do add HP or do you think its all BS?????????????????????????
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 11:03 am

They don't help unless you need it. Its like running 91 octance gas in your ford tempo. Its not programed to take advantage of it, so it won't. I imagine if your car had a need for higher than premium octance, these would help.. How much, I don't know
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 11:06 am

yeah but they tested it on a car that would use premium
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 12:35 pm

I didnt bother watching the video, but most octane boosters are a waste of money. They only raise the octane by one tenth of an octane point, yet claim one point. The only octane booster on the market that does anything is the NOS Reacing formula booster, which raises your octane by 3 full points, or 30 regular octane booster points.

Sorry if this isnt even relevant, i just didnt want to watch the video haha.
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 12:46 pm

greddy_1700 wrote:
I didnt bother watching the video, but most octane boosters are a waste of money. They only raise the octane by one tenth of an octane point, yet claim one point. The only octane booster on the market that does anything is the NOS Reacing formula booster, which raises your octane by 3 full points, or 30 regular octane booster points.

Sorry if this isnt even relevant, i just didnt want to watch the video haha.


According to the video, NOS Octane Booster causes a -2% power decrease Razz
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 4:57 pm

lol. reminds me of the time bellamy told me he had 100 or something octane in his near stock integra(not the type r).
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 5:01 pm

bellamy could have a nice car if he didnt spend all his cash on other things.
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 5:02 pm

In reality octane booster will add power and torque in a car that can accommodate for it. Most cars use knock sensors to pull timing when knock is detected. Very few actually have the ability to add timing if 0 knock is found. Thats why you see some cars such as the hyundai genesis v8 make 368hp on 87 octane, and 375hp on 91 octane. Also 1 point is just that .1 10 points of octane is 1.0
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 5:19 pm

i know bigsteve was using this shit for awhile seemed to work for him lol
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 6:24 pm

Octane booster does shit all for power.
For non-computer contolled engines, and pretty much almost every computer controlled vehicle on the market.

Octane booster does not add power at all. (Even if you have to run higher than 91 octane, these octane boosters don't give you enough points to do anything) Just like when you put premium in your vehicle it does not give you more power.

So many people think that the higher their octane the more power they will have, tons of people think putting premium in their car will add power.
Well it doesn't.

Only reason for higher octane levels is for high-compression engines. The more octane the faster it will ignite, therefore reduces detonation.

The only way it will add power is if your vehicle is like the one that RyanR is talking about, solely based on timing settings.
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 6:30 pm

Cody wrote:
Octane booster does shit all for power.
For non-computer contolled engines, and pretty much almost every computer controlled vehicle on the market.

Octane booster does not add power at all. (Even if you have to run higher than 91 octane, these octane boosters don't give you enough points to do anything) Just like when you put premium in your vehicle it does not give you more power.

So many people think that the higher their octane the more power they will have, tons of people think putting premium in their car will add power.
Well it doesn't.

Only reason for higher octane levels is for high-compression engines. The more octane the slower it will ignite, therefore reduces detonation.

The only way it will add power is if your vehicle is like the one that RyanR is talking about, solely based on timing settings.


Fixed it for you, everything you said is spot on except that higher octane fuels burn at a slower rate. Which is why you can increase spark advance.
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 22nd 2008, 7:22 pm

i have a high octane button. i like it. makes alot more wheel spin. that is when I have high octane fuel in it.
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 24th 2008, 5:50 pm

I run Premium sometimes cause there's no ethanol and there's more cleaners and shit in it... as far as I've heard
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PostSubject: Re: OCTANE BOOSTERS and your wasted money   October 24th 2008, 8:54 pm

in your bird?
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