Shell's V-power

[madhat]

I heard on an rx-7 board(froma guy who says he works for shell) that all of the V-power(premium) is atleast 94 octane....anyone know anything about that? If that's true, I'll never buy 91 again!

 

[Reaper]

i am calling BS, on that. but its a nice idea.


what proof did he get? I wont buy shell gas here in AZ cause its only at circle K, and for some reason i have an aversion to there gas.............

 

[BoostKillsStres]

Very doubtful, no free lunch, maybe our friendly fuel lab worker will stop by and confirm but if shell doesn't put 94 on the pump why would they go to the trouble?

 

[madhat]

I was just hoping...he said that alot of the stores just didnt change stickers...I hate 91 octane!

 

[BoostKillsStres]

91, no doubt that would be a pain if thats all you can get. 94 would be cool although I'm sure they'd charge for it with todays oil prices. From past reading, every point makes a pretty signaficant diff in the boost you can run and we need all we can get now that everyones finally found out forced induction is the way to go except for those die hard spray heads

 

[JDSfastGN]

Well gas is never exactly 93 or what ever, it has to be a minimum of 93 ocatane so its not unbelievable that its 94. I run nothing but shell 93 as I could always run more boost with no detonation on it. Now with alky 25 psi is no problem

 

[madhat]

I'm stuck running 13# on a 17-18# 93 octane chip.

 

[ajt86]

i can run 19 lbs on sunoco ultra 94 with a turbo tweak chip

 

[madhat]

what really yanks my chain is that in Dallas, it goes 87,89,93, but with roughly the same prices as our 87, 89, 91!

 

[b4black]

From what I know, Shells base fuel is fungible, so it's the same as most others. It's the Techron additve package that has more detergents than lesser brands.

Refiners are very good at getting right on 93. They rarely give away octane.

 

[Reaper]

Originally posted by b4black
From what I know, Shells base fuel is fungible, so it's the same as most others. It's the Techron additve package that has more detergents than lesser brands.

Refiners are very good at getting right on 93. They rarely give away octane.

this is true. most if not all gas is the same. if shell puts a 1000 gallons of gas in a tx pipe line, the 1000 gallons they pull out of that same pipe line is not that 1000 gallons, it could be exxon/mobil 1000 gallons. the only thing they care about is that they get the same amount out. they add the fun stuff after its recovered.

 

[Not Avg 6]

I had always used BP in my GN in the past. Started using Shell V-power this year exclusivly and really like it. 22lbs. of boost in cool weather.