Originally Posted by Chambers&Welsch
Hey listen up!
First of all its all in how you drive ur machine! whether your driving it hard or just driving it to work. Today gas is watered down for certain reasons(used to work @ a gas station)listen every gas tank full of regular gas is fine BUT! the thing is the main ingredent in gas is led ,so to use a led additive to replace the takin out led will improve the gas perfomance along with a can of dry gas to reduce water in the gas! this will also reduce ping and add minute amnts of horse power! Also remember this, moth balls increase gases octane (but i do not recomend this) so go to your local store to get a octane booster and quit wasting money on premium gas it your old regular unleaded gas just more expensive! Think BOYS AND GIRLS!
Octane booster will do NO good if your car can't take advantage of it. The octane boosters found at the average shop are a joke anyhow, they raise the octane a few tenths of point at best, the only additive that's been found to actually raise octane several points even in small amounts is torco accelerator, you can also go the xylene or toluene route(I still have half of a 55 gallon drum sitting in my garage from my old supercharged 463ci bel air that I got rid of), but you need a lot of it. Again it doesn't matter what additive you try to use if your car doesn't use a knock advance, or can't advance far enough to use it it does no good. 6 gen accords cannot use the higher octane, thus making for a less complete combustion and more waste as well as actually decreasing performance.
Also lead is not a component of gas, gas is very volatile in raw form and GM was having problems getting more performance out of their machines with raw gas so they looked for a viable, inexpensive additive to make the gas less prone to knock at a given compression. They tried several things such as kerosine, iodine, aniline, but in the early 1920s they discovered tetra ethyl lead was a great anti knock additive, and it was added to aviation fuels, car fuels and anything else that needed it's anti knock index raised. To this day many planes still use low lead gas to keep their performance while staving the knock. The planes I've flown all use 100LL as their go juice(I'm certified on Cessna 152, 172, 182, and 182T).
You working at a gas station is no indication of your actual knowledge as shown in your post. Try to do some research before spewing misinformation. So as you noted in your post
Think. Here I did some research for you, took me 30 seconds on yahoo
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/autos/gasol...rt1/index.html
And for scotty, I'm positive 87 is listed in the book, I had a picture of it somewhere but I can't remember what computer I have it on(I have 6 computers at home, and about 3TB of total storage). If you have any more doubts your best bet is to call the dealer.