I know what you mean.
My Jetta flew on Premium fuel...it makes some sortof difference...
- Peter
I know all the stuff about high octane doing nothing.... but I swear I can
> feel something. Perhaps my car shouldn't be run on low octane fuel
> anymore... who knows. Seems odd that there is different start off
> performance when I changed gasolines tho.
> > > Hey
> > >
> > > 1991 Golf GL 1.8L gasoline engine (100 Hp)
> > >
> > > I filled up with some 94 Octane gas (because it was cheap... only 61.9 > cents
> > > per litre of 87 octane, 74.9 for 94octane.... regular gas was this much
> a
> > > few months ago). Anyhow, I took it for a blast down the highway for an > hour
> > > and a bit.... seemed to get great gas mileage for a change. Anyhow now > when
> > > I go to start up in first gear the car wants to jump the gun a > little.... it
> > > will start to take off, but then will start to stutter because I am not
> > > nearly giving it enough gas for what it wants to do (this is all still > while
> > > the clutch isn't even all the way out)..... Should I have just kept > putting
> > > crude old 87 Ocane in it, as per usual.... I like treating the car to 94
> > > Octane now and then to clean it out on the highway (its a city car... it
> > > gets carbonized). This phenomenon only happens when I want to start off
> > > quickly off the line, which I wanted to do twice, the other 2-3 starts
> > > since I left the offramp were just normal acceleration attempts.... > nothing
> > > out of the usual.
> > >
> >
> > By the sound of it, 94 octane is the next best thing to a shot of > > nitrous . . .
> >
> > One of the myths about hi-test is that it is somehow 'cleaner' than
> > regular. Hi-test is not going to magically un-carbon valves and clean
> > injectors any better than regular can. You might notice a slight
> > improvement in MPG (maybe 1-2), but nowhere near enough to justify 25%
> > higher cost. And I doubt that most folks' butt-dynos are sensitive
> > enough to detect a performance difference in most of the engines that
> > were designed for regular. Sorry.
> >
> > H2Only
> >
> > btw, one of my cars just passed emissions with old, regular grade gas
> > . . . I didn't do a thing to prepare it.
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