octane booster- Does it help?
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octane booster- Does it help with bad gas and a superchip?
Does the octane booster you can pick up at wal-mart or where ever help. I put my chip in the other day and I still have a half tank of regular gas in and I was wondering if adding this would help and if is would be good to have around if you were somewhere that you could only get 89-91 octane.
Thanks,
Brent
Thanks,
Brent
Last edited by brentdrury; Mar 21, 2002 at 06:45 PM.
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I asked Mike T. the same question. He was definatly against using octane boosters. He said it leave a horrible film over everything. I struggle with finding high enough octane gas for my super chip so I had asked him the same question.
Good luck
Good luck
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Hi Brent,
As another poster mentioend, no, we do not advocate the use of any kind of octane boosters. The vast majority of them leave a pink to purple residue on spark plugs & O2 sensors, shortening the service life of those components.
Yes, some octane boosters can actually raise the octane, but the ones that actually work are far too expensive to ever make that a viable alternative financially to a good quality pump premium gasoline.
To use the Superchip, you will have to have access to at least a high-quality 91 octane premium gasoline, nothing less will do. The Superchip requires 91 thru 94 octane premium gasoline.
Just use a good pump premium gas and forget the octane boosters is our recommendation, Brent.
Good luck!
As another poster mentioend, no, we do not advocate the use of any kind of octane boosters. The vast majority of them leave a pink to purple residue on spark plugs & O2 sensors, shortening the service life of those components.
Yes, some octane boosters can actually raise the octane, but the ones that actually work are far too expensive to ever make that a viable alternative financially to a good quality pump premium gasoline.
To use the Superchip, you will have to have access to at least a high-quality 91 octane premium gasoline, nothing less will do. The Superchip requires 91 thru 94 octane premium gasoline.
Just use a good pump premium gas and forget the octane boosters is our recommendation, Brent.
Good luck!
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Hi blue,
I knew someone would eventually paint me in a corner on this one!
NOS brand octane booster showed a result in a couple of vehicles that, when used just once, did not leave a residue that was visible to the naked eye, so I suppose that one could be used in a pinch. I still don't like any octane booster, and even in our high-boost Lightning, I wouldn't use it unless my only other choice was to have to walk, that's just how I feel about octane boosters.
You can remove the Superchip in the same or less time than you can dump in octane booster, that can be done very quickly once it's been installed for the first time. We recommend just pulling the chip if you get a bad tank of gas rather than dumping in octane booster, regardless of what brand of kind of octane booster. You can put it back in very quickly as well, once you get good gas back in the tank.
I knew someone would eventually paint me in a corner on this one!
NOS brand octane booster showed a result in a couple of vehicles that, when used just once, did not leave a residue that was visible to the naked eye, so I suppose that one could be used in a pinch. I still don't like any octane booster, and even in our high-boost Lightning, I wouldn't use it unless my only other choice was to have to walk, that's just how I feel about octane boosters.
You can remove the Superchip in the same or less time than you can dump in octane booster, that can be done very quickly once it's been installed for the first time. We recommend just pulling the chip if you get a bad tank of gas rather than dumping in octane booster, regardless of what brand of kind of octane booster. You can put it back in very quickly as well, once you get good gas back in the tank.