Re: more power an better mileage???

From: Tom W. Houlton (thoulton@lanl.gov)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 12:58:40 EST


         Anybody ever use "Ronsons" lighter fluid as an octane booster?
seems like the label shows the same ingredients as "STP" octane booster ---

At 11:15 AM 2/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>Craig Rash wrote:
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bell" <dak@mama.indstate.edu>
>>
>>>So by now you're probably saying, "well gee Uncle John, what's your
>>secret?"
>>
>>>I run a Hypertech programmer at 93 octane level.
>>
>>Maybe I'm missing something here. It would seem that the need to run 93
>>octane and subsequently pay the $.15-.22 more per gallon, would minimize or
>>negate the gains from getting better mileage. Unless you can run the 93
>>octane program on 87 octane???
>
>I had the same thought. if I'm paying a price premium of 15%, but getting
>15% better mileage, I've gained....absolutely nothing.



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