Race Gas

[Swifty1638]

Lil' brown man hit it right on the head. IT'S ADDICTING! My car WOKE up and felt quite quicker then it did on pump (could be that race gas was in the better window for the turbo vs. psi).

As stated, your cat will die. Your o2 will die. You will also foul more plugs, but that's not too terribly bad. Lead in the gas is what kills it. But, if you are like a lot of other people, you don't have the cat, o2 to worry about, and you keep a box of plugs in your center counsole

When tuning/driving on race gas, try to keep it as one or the other. I wouldn't mix the gasses that much. Going from race gas tune to pump gas tune I don't really care-if anything it will run a bit rich. But, when I swap to race gas, from pump, the car is pretty much dry as can be. I'd even have a 5 gallon tank in the trunk, so when I run the car out of gas, I then have the race gas to put in it.

-A. Swift

[Talon628]

well Ive been running 110 in my Suzuki GSXR 600, and it ripps way better with no problems, but i guess thats a lil different considering the engine is smaller. And I put like 2 gallons in my 93 N/T talon, mostly because the thing had 8 month old gas thats just been sittin in it all winter. Figured it would help clean the bitch out. But my eclipse is soon to be running and I might want to run it strictly on race fuel, Im more concerned if it would help or make things worse to run it like that?

[Goat Blower]

Originally Posted by Talon628

well Ive been running 110 in my Suzuki GSXR 600, and it ripps way better with no problems, but i guess thats a lil different considering the engine is smaller. And I put like 2 gallons in my 93 N/T talon, mostly because the thing had 8 month old gas thats just been sittin in it all winter. Figured it would help clean the bitch out. But my eclipse is soon to be running and I might want to run it strictly on race fuel, Im more concerned if it would help or make things worse to run it like that?

That's a myth, higher octane gas does not clean anything. However E85 would. Or you can simply put in injector cleaner, which is a form of alcohol.

With no changes, your factory computer will not see knock as much if at all and allow you to run maximum factory timing, which makes some power, but really no better than 92 octane. The real benefit is you can turn up the boost with race gas without knock, that's where the power comes from. If you have a full standalone, you can do a lot more to increase power. Since mine has turned into a weekend car, I've been running nothing less than 100 octane unleaded on the street for years. Now with E85 and being able to tune for that, that's my new soup de jour. Race gas for cheap. It requires a lot of mods to run it properly though.

[JET]

Originally Posted by Talon628

well Ive been running 110 in my Suzuki GSXR 600, and it ripps way better with no problems, but i guess thats a lil different considering the engine is smaller. And I put like 2 gallons in my 93 N/T talon, mostly because the thing had 8 month old gas thats just been sittin in it all winter. Figured it would help clean the bitch out. But my eclipse is soon to be running and I might want to run it strictly on race fuel, Im more concerned if it would help or make things worse to run it like that?

Yeah, that is in your head. 110 isn't going to make more power than 92 octane on your bike. It doesn't have a knock sensor and has no way to adjust itself for higher octane. On a N/A vehicle you want to run the lowest octane it can safely run for the most power. If you adjust the timing for race gas, you can make more power on N/A because of the higher octane.

[Talon628]

hmm..seems to me im better off just buying some good ol' 92-93 octane huh.