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tnord · 08-28-2002, 11:16 AM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (sidewayzCA18 @ Aug. 27 2002,4:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just remember that higher octane doesn't mean faster....higher octane is harder to ignite. It is used in turbo vehicles because they run at higher temps and the lower octane will ignite prematurely under higher boost, this is called detonation. On a NA vehicle that isn't highly tuned it will provide little performace value.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
WRONG

if an engine was designed to run on high octane, running high octane in it will produce MORE POWER and will BE FASTER. if you don't believe me, read up on European Car's project M3, or C&D had an article not too long ago about it.

08-28-2002, 11:16 AM	#9
tnord Nissanaholic! Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,975 Trader Rating: (0)	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (sidewayzCA18 @ Aug. 27 2002,4:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just remember that higher octane doesn't mean faster....higher octane is harder to ignite. It is used in turbo vehicles because they run at higher temps and the lower octane will ignite prematurely under higher boost, this is called detonation. On a NA vehicle that isn't highly tuned it will provide little performace value.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> WRONG if an engine was designed to run on high octane, running high octane in it will produce MORE POWER and will BE FASTER. if you don't believe me, read up on European Car's project M3, or C&D had an article not too long ago about it.