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Old 08-22-2005, 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by ricky.agrawal
In america, you're supposed to use whatever the manufacturer suggest.
Anything higher won't do jack diddily sqaut on a stock car, because the engine timing maps won't take advantage of it. They will only compensate for lower octane fuel.
So if this is the case, then what you are saying is that it is true that higher octane doesn't do anyhting for us unless we re-tune our cars for the higher octane. If so, then is there a difference for us between 87 octane and 91 since we can't really take advantage of the the octane difference?
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