All this talk of petrol...Opitmax or Ultimate??
#1
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N.Y.S.O.C. - NORTH YORKSHIRE SUBARU OWNERS CLUB
Posts: 9,914
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
All this talk of petrol...Opitmax or Ultimate??
MY04 WRX turbo intercooler whatever, has a scoop. Yeah yeah yeah blonde I know
Anyway have been putting ultimate in 99.9 pence a litre
Did run it once on Optimax and it didnt run as good, bad batch or is Ultimate better or what??
Depending what I can get hold of of course, trying to keep it topped up at mo as very pregnant and need a car!!! Didnt think of that did they when they bleed the garages dry of petrol!! Cant walk to hospital
Thanks in advance
Anyway have been putting ultimate in 99.9 pence a litre
Did run it once on Optimax and it didnt run as good, bad batch or is Ultimate better or what??
Depending what I can get hold of of course, trying to keep it topped up at mo as very pregnant and need a car!!! Didnt think of that did they when they bleed the garages dry of petrol!! Cant walk to hospital
Thanks in advance
#2
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (7)
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: not sure
Posts: 221
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If its a uk car then you will be ok to run it on any super unleaded, personally i find optimax is better (classic import) and it is 98 ron as to 97 ron for the ultimate, use which ever your car feels best with and you feel comfortable with.
note: this is my own opinion
note: this is my own opinion
#3
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N.Y.S.O.C. - NORTH YORKSHIRE SUBARU OWNERS CLUB
Posts: 9,914
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by LEE-WRX
If its a uk car then you will be ok to run it on any super unleaded, personally i find optimax is better (classic import) and it is 98 ron as to 97 ron for the ultimate, use which ever your car feels best with and you feel comfortable with.
note: this is my own opinion
note: this is my own opinion
#5
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (5)
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Bedfordshire
Posts: 8,948
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I don't won a scoob yet, but i do have an Astra 1.6 8v and i put in 9 tmes out of 10 shell unleaded. Now if i have put some BP unleaded in whislt i still have a bit of shell at the bottom of the tank, i can feel the difference in performance like more. But bp on its own is not as good as shell on its own i.e. i lose performance with bp unlike shell where i gain performance, although it might not me much, but evey little bit helps
all down to preference really and what you feel comfortable with, but mainly what gives you the better performance gain.
Darren
all down to preference really and what you feel comfortable with, but mainly what gives you the better performance gain.
Darren
Last edited by SC008Y_MAD; 12 September 2005 at 12:34 PM.
#6
Moderator
iTrader: (4)
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: The Terry Crews of moderation. P P P P P P POWER!!
Posts: 18,687
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by girl-in-a-scoob
MY04 WRX turbo intercooler whatever, has a scoop. Yeah yeah yeah blonde I know
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
Mine gets optimax, seems very happy on it, very smooth and picks up very nicely from low revs.
BTW. All the best with the nipper!
NS04
Trending Topics
#8
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: where the goats smoke
Posts: 44
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
a lot of it probably comes down to the fact that as soon as u come onto the scooby scene, everyone is talking about optimax as the fuel u should use.
however at the start i didnt know what they were talking about and started using ultimate. made no difference as i had a sti type uk and was mapped for normal fuel.
with my car tuned etc now, i need to use whatever gives me the highest octane. now its optimax, tomorrow it could be tescos 99ron. then i add millers octane boost every tank.
if your cars a standard ish UK car then fill it with ultimate, optimax, esso super, whatever you want.
however at the start i didnt know what they were talking about and started using ultimate. made no difference as i had a sti type uk and was mapped for normal fuel.
with my car tuned etc now, i need to use whatever gives me the highest octane. now its optimax, tomorrow it could be tescos 99ron. then i add millers octane boost every tank.
if your cars a standard ish UK car then fill it with ultimate, optimax, esso super, whatever you want.
#9
What are these new age UK/Euro Wrx and sti's mapped for from factory spec, is it 95 or 97 or 98. They must be safe on 95 also as not every Euro country or area has 97 or 98 ron fuel.
If you had to settle for 95, would it be ok or even 95 with octane booster??
If you had to settle for 95, would it be ok or even 95 with octane booster??
#10
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 2,086
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
My MY03 WRX, slightly modified to 268 BHP is mapped to Optimax. I aint no ace or awesome driver, but i notice the difference in my car on BP's Ultimate, when i say difference, i mean ****e difference.
This is only mho, but Optimax for me pisses all over BP.
This is only noticeable if i am really driving the car hard and with plenty of high rev's.
It is only up the rev scale, say 6000 and upto redline that i can tell, and the car dont pull on BP like it does with Optimax. It just does not pull right.
Again, my car is mapped to the Optimax so that is probably all it is, but, just my opinion.
This is only mho, but Optimax for me pisses all over BP.
This is only noticeable if i am really driving the car hard and with plenty of high rev's.
It is only up the rev scale, say 6000 and upto redline that i can tell, and the car dont pull on BP like it does with Optimax. It just does not pull right.
Again, my car is mapped to the Optimax so that is probably all it is, but, just my opinion.
#11
Originally Posted by MaDaSS
My MY03 WRX, slightly modified to 268 BHP is mapped to Optimax. I aint no ace or awesome driver, but i notice the difference in my car on BP's Ultimate, when i say difference, i mean ****e difference.
This is only mho, but Optimax for me pisses all over BP.
This is only noticeable if i am really driving the car hard and with plenty of high rev's.
It is only up the rev scale, say 6000 and upto redline that i can tell, and the car dont pull on BP like it does with Optimax. It just does not pull right.
Again, my car is mapped to the Optimax so that is probably all it is, but, just my opinion.
This is only mho, but Optimax for me pisses all over BP.
This is only noticeable if i am really driving the car hard and with plenty of high rev's.
It is only up the rev scale, say 6000 and upto redline that i can tell, and the car dont pull on BP like it does with Optimax. It just does not pull right.
Again, my car is mapped to the Optimax so that is probably all it is, but, just my opinion.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post