oh.. oops. i have a silverstone S also.. dangit time go do a color change now.

 

UK owner currently in charlotte. Staying over at atkins circle drive in pineville. Theres a red s2k just over the road, any of you guys?

 

Haven't posted in here yet, but I have a black ap2 with black ap2v3's and CF hood/lip. I'm surprised Charlotte's subforum is only 2 pages long lol. Would be nice to have meets here. How are the CCI meets?

 

I live near South Park mall, which is near Pineville off park rd. My S hasn't been driven for quite some time now. Parks in my apartment complex just attract the ladies..

 

Nice I was down at south park this morning, clearing up the hollister and abercrombie sales, stuff is so cheap over here, even with the exchange rate!! Fuel, well don't even start me off!!

Currently up in blue ridge in a log cabin!

 

wowers! that's cheap to you? haha I wish I got a discount on that stuff.. As for fuel it's went down a lot, i'm sure over in the UK it's WAY more.. lol

That's pretty awesome you're in a log cabin, I haven't been in one since last year!

 

Yes the clothes is nearly half price for us over here. Then factor in your sale and it's generally less than half price.

Well then fuel is a different story, in sc we paid $3.22 for a gallon. In the uk it's about £1.40 for a litre, so a gallon would be about £6 so about $9 for a gallon!!!

It costs £70 for me to fill up at home, so about $105 here!! However the quality of our fuel is a bit better, your premium fuel is 93 octane, where our standard is 95 and our premium is between 97-99.



That's nearly 3 times as much!!!

 

Found your comment interesting so I decided to see if I could see why US and UK have different standards and do they effect the end product...

Came up with this...

United Kingdom: 'regular' petrol has an octane rating of 95 RON, with 97 RON fuel being widely available as the Super Unleaded. Tesco and Shell both offer 99 RON fuel. In April 2006, BP started a public trial of the super-high octane petrol BP Ultimate Unleaded 102, which as the name suggests, has an octane rating of 102 RON.[21] Although BP Ultimate Unleaded (with an octane rating of 97 RON) and BP Ultimate Diesel are both widely available throughout the UK, BP Ultimate Unleaded 102 was available throughout the UK in only 10 filling stations, and was priced at about two and half times more than their 97 RON fuel. In March 2010, BP stopped sales of Ultimate Unleaded 102, citing the closure of their specialty fuels manufacturing facility.[22] Shell V-Power is also available, but in a 99 RON octane rating, and Tesco fuel stations also supply the Greenergy produced 99 RON "Tesco 99".

United States: in the US octane rating is displayed in AKI. In the Rocky Mountain (high elevation) states, 85 AKI (90 RON) is the minimum octane, and 91 AKI (95 RON) is the maximum octane available in fuel[citation needed]. The reason for this is that in higher-elevation areas, a typical naturally-aspirated engine draws in less air mass per cycle because of the reduced density of the atmosphere. This directly translates to less fuel and reduced absolute compression in the cylinder, therefore deterring knock. It is safe to fill a carbureted car that normally takes 87 AKI fuel at sea level with 85 AKI fuel in the mountains, but at sea level the fuel may cause damage to the engine. A disadvantage to this strategy is that most turbocharged vehicles are unable to produce full power, even when using the "premium" 91 AKI fuel. In some east coast states, up to 94 AKI (98 RON) is available.[23] In Colorado as well as parts of the Midwest (primarily Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri) ethanol-based E-85 fuel with 105 AKI is available.[24] Often, filling stations near US racing tracks will offer higher octane levels such as 100 AKI[citation needed]. California fuel stations will offer 87, 89, and 91 AKI (91, 93 and 95 RON) octane fuels, and at some stations, 100 AKI or higher octane, sold as racing fuel.

Source

 

Ok fair enough, interesting read.

Still much cheaper over here, I have to budget £280 ($420) fuel per month (1 tank per week)

Fuel price has become a massive problem in the UK, I used to go on long joyrides just for fun, but now on meets etc we keep the mileage down as it costs so much. On a recent meet (all giving it vtec most changes) we used >$50 fuel in under an hour!!

We have been driving around in a mustang gt over here, getting 15mpg. Cars like this in the uk are now a rarity as it costs so much to run. The majority of new cars are now 2.0 diesel which do 45mpg and more! You can pick up lexus and mercedes v8s and v12s really cheap as people just can't afford to put the fuel in them!

 

oh wow.. that was an awesome read there.. glad to know that.