Holy whack! Krazik is right

Seriously, higher octane will not make more power. But, it's a big butt, it will help the engine in other ways. It has detergents in the fuel that clean up deposits and it burns a lot cleaner.

I ran 110 at the last track event and driving on the street later, I noticed a MUCH smoother idle. My guess is that it cleaned up deposits on the spark plugs.

It would be interesting to do a scientific comaro between pump gas and race gas on the dyno.

 

Well... maybe it was all in my head. Sorry for the confusion.

 

You probably noticed that the car ran a lot smoother, not necessarily faster.

 

Its my understanding that a stock S2K already pulls timing out due to the knock sensor while running 91/92 octane gas during everyday driving. If that's indeed true then it makes sense that 100 octane could provide more power by allowing the ECU to advance timing. A simple way to check that would be to hook up an OBDII scan tool and monitor the Spark Advance while running both grades back to back.

 

Well... I really did feel like I was getting to VTEC quicker than with normal gas.

 

The wet ground probably helped you spin your tires shifting into 2nd.

 

i put 100 octane in my tank and i didnt feel a difference. i got it at the track and ended up runnin a worse time than w/o it

 

there is a local exxon station by my house. i love near weston FL which is where a lot big name people live football players so on. so they all have a lot of nice cars. they sell 107oct. i have some extra money to burn. i'll try some out see what i think. i am running higher compression though.

 

I can chirp the tires going into second on an 80-degree day; that is with 92 octane.

Cool air will bring more power; at times, when it rains, cool air is brought in.

 

So can I. I was referring to nastinupe1.