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Roblu98

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Has any one used 100LL Avation Gas. I know the LL stands for Low lead. Would this hurt the 02 sensors or Valve seats? I have no cats so I am not worried about them. Thanks for the help!
 
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darkside03gt

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pretty sure it would hurt your o2s and possibly your injectors.
 
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Yeah I thought so, I was wondering because it is half the price of Sunoco 260GT.
 
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sounds like youre a cheap skate pay the 8.80 a gal. for the sunoco thats the price you pay for performance!!!
 
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wow.... thats a new one...
 

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my car loved the leaded av fuel, i got some for free after a local air show.
i didnt realize how much they had to pay to get rid of the unused fuel.

shes never idled as smooth as then, time for some new o2's though now, haha.
 

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Are you wanting this stuff for daily driver duty, or just for the odd track event? Mixing some with your pump gas the odd time to increase your over all octane shouldn't hurt, but putting your car on a steady diet of the stuff is going to have you going through O2 sensors on a reguar basis.
 

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exactly what octane is this aviation fuel? and what could i expect from say half a tank in my ride
 
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No the car is not a daily driver. I put on less 5000 miles a year. i would use a 50/50 mix with 93.
 

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unless you have the timing changed, you're not gonna do any good running a higher octane fuel.
 
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I am going to have two tunes pump gas tune (93 octane) and a race gas tune (100 octane)
 
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blksq10psi

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SUNOCO 260 smells nice
 

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i run 100LL in my dirt bike .. it smells funny...
 
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just add TOULENE to your gas, this is the octane booster from the gas corp. Works REALY well on a fi eng . just loook up home made octane boosters, that will take you to a few forums on the mix! One talks about a few older turbo cars running 12-28 lbs of boost and realllyyyy liking the higher "cheaper"octane over very pricey race fuel? worth a look
 

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When I use to work at an airport we would run all our diesel trucks with jet fuel. We had an F-250 that had over 400,000 miles and was still going strong on that stuff.
 

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I nearly tried this myself on the 2.3. I bought a can of xylene but never got around to dumping it in the tank. I have no doubt it is effective and works well. I guess I was scared off because of reports of very excessive EGTs. I can't confirm or deny this obviously because I never tried it and I don't have an EGT gauge.

I am however running ethanol very successfully. I run E85 (105octane) full time in the 2.3. I can't seem to run more than 22psi on the current turbo (rediculous backperssure because it's too small) but I was able to bump the timing a bunch. I've run up to 30% ethanol in the 97 with absolutely no changes. Obviously, it isn't helped by extra octane since it is tuned for 87. It did get rid of some annoying detonation at full load that I've noticed for the last 60k miles. It must have been a dirty fuel injector that got cleaned nicely by the alky.

cooper said:
just add TOULENE to your gas, this is the octane booster from the gas corp. Works REALY well on a fi eng . just loook up home made octane boosters, that will take you to a few forums on the mix! One talks about a few older turbo cars running 12-28 lbs of boost and realllyyyy liking the higher "cheaper"octane over very pricey race fuel? worth a look
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