Why do ppl say that octane doesn't make a difference?

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Why do ppl say that octane doesn't make a difference?

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08-21-2005, 02:54 PM

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possibly 2 reasons.. 1) they're ignorant 2) the camp of reasoning that your DME can only advance the timing so much.

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Originally Posted by Echoi17

I can't figure out why people are saying that cars don't perform better on higher octane gas...Technically, if you think about it, when you dyno a car or race a car through a quarter mile, the cars running on 100 octane gas perform so much better...especially more so when they are turbo charged cars. So whats the deal with that?

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