LOL Chill hon

Otherwise you wont be getting your pressie @ the next meet

& I Just warapped it up for ya

You ask for all the advise you like , Im also interested in hearing Zac's thoughts on OB

Tiny ...

 

PMSL,
And people ask why I dont bother posting in the ESC anymore!

 

i never asked that

 

I've never asked why , But it's a shame you feel that way

 

With our current fuels running at or close to 99ron I think octane booster can be an unneccesary expense, most imports will run happily on this and if they didnlt isn't it better practice to address this issue and get them tuned for the availble fuel - what happens if you get caught in deepest cambridgeshire with out a bottle of NF or similar

 

mine will run fine, even on 95 ron if it "has" to. but i prefer to run the octane booster. as said before peace of mind. plus a new ecu - apexi etc - or even one of the scooby ecus are expensive. good few hundred quid to get done.

but agree 100% if it's not running right unless it has the octane booster then that needs looking at. chance are something will go wrong if ignored in that instance imo.

 

I still haven't got round to fitting the bigger injectors in my car and having the Apexi remapped yet, got no knock activity but not running full boost, only about 0.75bar, I'd rather be safe then sorry until the time the car is mapped properly for super unleaded

 

some parts of cambridgeshire are very deep and dark

I use octane booster occasionally when I have to fill up with less than ideal petrol or for special occassions such as track days

 

best fuel grade in southern ireland is 95,northern ireland is bp ultimate 97 which is from what i gather on here is "rubbish".i allways pop some nf in my sti,costly yes but at least every thing runs as it should.i know the car could be mapped to run 95 but it going to be well down on power

 

What's the news about Tescos out there. Are they going to be selling 99 ron?

 

Mate, I got caught in deepest Devon, a few months back... they haven't even got 99 down there... best I was able to find was that dreadful BP Ultimate (97) , fortunately I managed to find a Halfrauds for some OB though. the nearest Shell station (20 miles away) didn't have V-power or optimax either... just standard unleaded and there Tesco's hadn't been upgraded.

 

so most people dont use it ?

 

I don't

 

Nope i do & will continue to

 

Probably a good idea mate, as yours was mapped with OB in the tank

 

When I originally had my car mapped by Pat Herborn, I checked out ScoobyClinic's website and it said not to use octane boost when having a car mapped, so I didn't use any. But when Pat mapped the car, he wanted to know why I didn't put any in, and he said that they put that on the site because a lot of people put OB in just for the remapping session, and don't use it again, so can cause detting (Knock).

Sorry, if Pat says octane boost is worth while, then I believe him, and I don't particularly care what anyone else says! I know it works, simply because of flamer kits

PS a little bit of useless information for you, did you know that butane is put in petrol to up the RON rating? hence on warm days, when you take the filler cap off, you get a hiss from the gas venting off

 

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