What would be the good and bad for stock T's and even A's
Are you talking about aviation Fuel?
This is at a regular gas station. Had not yet asked for any details.
The rule of thumb is , if you can not get the correct octane, always use the higher octane, never lower. What octane is the T engine designed for? I suspect that using 102 octane will not damage the engine, but I doubt that it will give as good performance as a lower one. The reason for using higher and not lower is a lower octane will cause pre-ignition or detonation and could damage the engine.
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Gus
thank you gus. What benefit with the no alcohol for a modern car? Would it be usful a couple times of the year to help clean out the injectors and/or engine?
Higher octane does nothing if your car does not need it. It won't clean anything. Most modern cars are quite happy with 89 octane. Check your owners manual, anything over 92 octane is certainly not needed.
Use of leaded fuel in any car equipped with catalyst exhaust will cause expensive damage. Do not under any circumstances use 100LL Avgas in a catalyst equipped car. 100LL contains a lot of tetraethyl lead which will destroy a catalytic converter immediately.
If your injectors are dirty use an injector cleaning kit.
While I doubt a gas station is selling leaded fuel from the pumps I believe Royce has hit the proverbial nail on it's head. It probably costs more and won't help a bit. These ads showing carbon encrusted valves and stating that (fill in the name's) fuel will clean it isn't true. A wire wheel maybe. When was the last time you heard spark knock on a modern engine? The days of de-tuning your Caddie to use regular are long gone.
Hey Tyrone, if you want to clean out things, then use gas with alcohol, it will help remove grime from the tank and carb, and best of all, if you have any moisture in your system, it will get rid of it, just do not park a vehicle with gasohol in the tank for any length of time, as it will go bad quicker that regular gas.
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Gus
I run the cheapest gas I can find, My trip to AC I only used about 5 gallons on the whole trip. Thats around 130 miles or so round trip. Of course there wasnt a lot of stopping and starting and almost no hills
I have no idea if this is leaded or not. I would guess not. So why 102? Just a gimic?
Tyrone, Here's some discussion on an old thread from someone in your area (I think). Sounds like it's just sort of the latest craze for super motor-heads.
http://www.f150online.com/forums/chips-tuners-programming/16504-102-octane-gas.h tml
There is 102 octane unleaded fuel available from several refiners. It is necessary for highly modified turbocharged and supercharged cars. Not any value at all to a car that does not have compression high enough to warrant its use.
I buy 110 octane leaded race gas in 55 gallon drums for my 427 powered Mercury Cougars. The stock compression ratio is 10.9 to one.
Tyrone, you do not mention why you want to run 102, but if you want non oxygenated, here is my experience.
Last year I ran non oxygenated fuel (92 octane). At that local station it was the only grade of non-oxygenated fuel. I ran it all last summer and it worked great. I figured for the amount of fuel I buy, the cost increase was no big deal, and if I am not losing an efficiency due to the corn juice I am brake even point. No GPS to tell me if I am getting better fuel economy or not. It may just be the operator bias but I though the old girl ran smoother too.