Race fuel in my daily driver ?
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Race fuel in my daily driver ?
Here in New Orleans we now have a race track that sells three grades of race fuel with a high price tag. Anyways just thought I would ask if anyone just ran race fuel in there car as a daily driver and would I really see a difference form the 93 contain I'm running now, maybe put just a few gallons in there.
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Originally Posted by rm2092
Here in New Orleans we now have a race track that sells three grades of race fuel with a high price tag. Anyways just thought I would ask if anyone just ran race fuel in there car as a daily driver and would I really see a difference form the 93 contain I'm running now, maybe put just a few gallons in there.
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You're not going to see any gains in high octane race fuel without a tune. I take my car to the track all the time and just for kicks I ran some race fuel (100 octane gas) in my car to test it out. It did nothing to improve my ET's at the track. So I have verifiable proof that unless you have a tune, you'll see zero benefit in running high octane gas beyond 93.
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C16 smells AWESOME, but at the price of a drum of fuel on a DD car its pointless. That car isn't making that kind of power. I have seen 8 second passes on 93 pump.
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You'll lose power. The higher the octane, the harder it is to burn, and the more cylinder pressure it can withstand before pre-ignition. 87 octane burns faster than 116 leaded race fuel.
I ran 108 in my jetboat only because it was a 13.5:1 BBC and I had to. The smell is nice too though, just not for $11 a gallon locally.
I ran 108 in my jetboat only because it was a 13.5:1 BBC and I had to. The smell is nice too though, just not for $11 a gallon locally.
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Go with E85 over C16 anyway....just make sure you find a place that cycles the fuel and it dosen't just sit.
E85 and a tune...
And you don't need "a bunch of mods" a bolt on car TUNED for that fuel will see a gain.
E85 and a tune...
And you don't need "a bunch of mods" a bolt on car TUNED for that fuel will see a gain.
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