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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 09:01 PM
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I can't get anything except a 93 Octane around here in Charlotte. Is there a 98 octane out there?

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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 09:14 PM
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Unocal 76 in San Marino, Ca sells 100 octane racing gasoline.
It is on huntington drive
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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 09:24 PM
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I saw a fuel truck in Pittsburgh while on business in 1998 with 100 octane painted on it. I think it was a Sunoco. On the NJ turnpike I've only seen 94 octane at Sunoco.
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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 10:33 PM
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Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, Ca sells 100 (unlead) and 114 (leaded) Octane racing fuels.
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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 10:38 PM
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This may be urban myth, but I had heard that Sunoco used to only make 100 octane and 80 octane. The trick is that you got your choice of many octanes between 86 and 95... all achieved by their fancy pump mixing the proper proportions of the two grades according to what you selected on the dial.

It has been some years since I have lived on the east coast, so I have no idea if they still have those pumps with the 5 or 6 grades offered.

If this is true however, it would be consistent with what you saw marked on the truck.

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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 10:46 PM
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We also have 100 octane here in Orlando...Good stuff
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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 10:50 PM
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how much are they a galon?
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Old Jun 15, 2001 | 11:00 PM
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Skarv, fuel mixing of low and high octanes is standard practice when it comes to consumer gasolines. According to my brother-in-law (who works for Tosco Refineries ie. Unocal76), they only produce two unleaded octanes 80 and 100 (just like sunoco). The octanes that we see in the gas stations are a mixture of the two.
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Old Jun 16, 2001 | 01:14 AM
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110 on sale here in phx, $8 a gallon.

104 for street racing, $4 a gallon.
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Old Jun 16, 2001 | 01:32 AM
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We indeed do have 100 octane *unleaded* here in Orlando. Havent run it in my car yet...but i will soon. Our high compression engines should love that stuff.

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