Octane booster

[ianmcintoshi]

Hey, in July i will be driving across Europe in my glanza. Now, my car has been mapped on v-power and its the only thing that i fill up with and when on the continent there will probably be occasions when the only fuel available will be normal unleaded. I was thinking that i will take a load of octane booster for these occasions.

So my question is has anyone ever used octane booster? Which one is the best? Will my car run fine using it?

Any recommendations or advice will be greatly appreciated

 

[AdamB]

You will still be ok using lower octane aslong as you don't give it the boot.
There is many brands out there, just get the best one you can afford, try places like halfrauds and local motor factors

 

[fordy]

Done the modball in our supra which was mapped on Optimax and we managed to get it over there fine. Just take some octane booster incase.

 

[accent_97]

i use this stuff find it good but to feel the differece normal i drop half liter with a tank

 

[Starlet_Sam]

Octane booster rarely lives up to it's expectations

 

[fordy]

CV Turbo i think the booster is called that we use i meant to say.

 

[ianmcintoshi]

Thanks for the replys

Any idea which is the best to go for?

EDIT: just seen ur post lol

 

[ianmcintoshi]

Octane booster rarely lives up to it's expectations

Im not using it for performance gains or anything like that. Its just i will be doing a lot of miles in a short space of time and will also be doing the nurburgring, and would just like to help prevent det in any way. Would much rather be safe than sorry.

 

[Starlet_Sam]

I meant in the fact that they don't raise the octane levels much. Lots of miles doesn't induce det.

 

[Nickzorz]

fifth gear did an interesting test on these octane boosters.

My old scooby was mapped on shell v but it would run fine on regular stuff unless you put your foot down.

Alternativley if you got a bit of wedge lurking about you could get a second ecu and map in on normal stuff

 

[ianmcintoshi]

I meant in the fact that they don't raise the octane levels much. Lots of miles doesn't induce det.

How do they not raise the octane much? I understand that miles wont induce det but like i say i just want to be as safe as possible.

 

[ianmcintoshi]

fifth gear did an interesting test on these octane boosters.

My old scooby was mapped on shell v but it would run fine on regular stuff unless you put your foot down.

Alternativley if you got a bit of wedge lurking about you could get a second ecu and map in on normal stuff

Its an option i suppose lol

Would prefer not too tho.

 

[Starlet_Sam]

Well the whole market is pretty much unregulated as to the claims they make. For instance, if it claims to raise octane by 5 points it can be either 5 or 0.5.

 

[Nickzorz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbcCr2ll3c

I think this is the right bit, my work pc wont load youtube clips. If not just type in "fuel additive tests" or something like that and try to stay clear of the manufacturer produced clips lol.

 

[ianmcintoshi]

Interesting... Im a bit unsure now lol

Thanks for all the replys

 

[Nickzorz]

The way i see it in my mind (its probably complete nonesense in my brain) is our cars are designed to run on petrol and only petrol which is nice and flammable and explosive etc. So why add in something that isnt petrol?

I would love to know the rates of combustion of some of these additives and how easy they are to compress just to set my mind at ease.

 

[12345678]

Octane booster rarely lives up to it's expectations

what he said, although personally i found millars best to prevent det when using ordinary petrol although the car didnt run as well as it would just running super.

 

[Paul_JJ]

Surely you will find some decent fuel on the continent.... Shell is a Dutch company... In Germany you will be able to buy over 100 octane....

 

[TurboDave]

The way i see it in my mind (its probably complete nonesense in my brain) is our cars are designed to run on petrol and only petrol which is nice and flammable and explosive etc. So why add in something that isnt petrol?

I would love to know the rates of combustion of some of these additives and how easy they are to compress just to set my mind at ease.

Higher octane = more resistance to detonation, Jap ECU's are mapped to generally run on Jap fuel which is around 100ron, if we run 95 ron and use the timing maps which are in the ECU for 100ron we run the risk of getting some det, although the standard knock sensor should be able react and pull some timing out to make it safe again, the result is less power due to the fact that less timing advance can safely be used. Therefore the octane booster is there to make the timing levels safer when using a lower octane fuel, putting octane booster in a car designed to run on say 95 octane should have very little or no improvement on performance.

 

[dark_knight]

the best way to control detonation.. is with your right foot!