what octane boosters to use

[CHANCE]

pretty much what the subject title say whats the best and how much to use thanks guys

 

[oehm]

Octane boosters are a waste of money in my opinion. Many people have used zylene or toulene (sp?) as an octane booster. Do a search and you will find several posts on using such as an octane booster. In my opinion, there is no replacement for Alky, or high ocane gasoline.

 

[krom]

torco accelerator if you must.

www.torcoracefuels.com/

 

[BLACK6PACK]

do a search on xylene. That will get you the best rise in octane.

Alky injection is the best for a street driven car though.

 

[denn454]

i've never found any of the in the bottle stuff that works. i have heard the nx nitrous stuff does work though.

for the $10 a bottle of that stuff i think you much better off with a gallon and a half of c16

 

[CHANCE]

so where do you get xylene at and how much per gallon do you use you know guys i dont want to sound ungrateful but really how hard is it to tell someone the answer you know instead of telling everyone to "do a search" i mean thats what i do i searched for a day and found d*** but thanks for the help

 

[pacecarta]

try this link

http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/misc/octanebooster.html

tuolene and xylene are solvents , check paint stores and home centers for it .

heres another link to a chart if you want to mix in some race gas with your unleaded pump gas to boost your octane

http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/misc/Octanemix.html

 

[JP87GN]

I've bought Xylene at Ace,Home Depot and lowe's and its about $10 a gallon there. I usually mix it at 1 gallon Xylene to 3 gallons of 92 octane fuel and it comes out to be like 100 octane.

 

[Turbo6inKY]

Originally posted by krom
torco accelerator if you must.

www.torcoracefuels.com/

The Torco actually works as advertised. It is not the crap you find at autozone. 32oz to 10 gallons of pump 93 is 104 octane.

Jury is still out on how it affects the car over the long term. It leaves an orange residue on the plugs, I've heard it can foul O2 sensors, but I haven't seen it yet on my car.

I'm running 19psi with 21 degrees of timing on stock injectors and turbo with 1 can of Torco to a tank, and it doesn't knock under any conditions.

Running 20% Xylene (~98.5 octane), I get 3-7 degrees of knock retard depending on the temperature.

 

[CHANCE]

so turbo6inky do you order it or can i get it around town

 

[Turbo6inKY]

Originally posted by CHANCE
so turbo6inky do you order it or can i get it around town

I mail order it from http://www.need4speedpower.com/torco.html

The boxes actually come straight from Torco, however. They're usually very fast. Longest I've had to wait for an order is a week and a half. It usually shows up in two or three days.

 

[strikeeagle]

Chance,

I don't know what your financial situation is, but if you start and keeping dumping expensive octane boosters into your car, eventually you will have paid for an alky kit, which will allow you to run pretty much whatever boost you please, and without any detrimental affects that may result from whatever witches brew you may choose to add to your tank...

 

[machinegun]

You can build your own DIY alchy kit. Run denatured or get real fancy and run some M2 like I do. 5 gallon for 28.00 and it took me most of the season to use it. 12.68 with 2.2 60 on BFG ta not DR at 109. Stock IC, Engine, CAM Turbo 21 pounds boost. I have run as high as 24 lbs on the street with 94 octan sunoco from the pump and alchy. Seems to irritate the mustang boys. With DR it would have been 12.2 or better. I slappe on my V4r and TE60 and this thign runs 11's on pump gas and M2 alchy. Runs so good I turned it up too high and detonated it at 25 lbs. Looks like I am doing the head gasket shuffle this weekend. Anyone want to help? Tune for no detonation.

 

[ZR1TR]

"M2"

What is M2, is that methanol?

Don't forget that if you do the xylene mix to use Marvel Mystery Oil. I think the mix is 1 ounce for every gallon of xylene, it helps to condition all the rubber or plastic components because xylene is very "drying"

 

[Turbo6inKY]

Originally posted by strikeeagle
Chance,

I don't know what your financial situation is, but if you start and keeping dumping expensive octane boosters into your car, eventually you will have paid for an alky kit, which will allow you to run pretty much whatever boost you please, and without any detrimental affects that may result from whatever witches brew you may choose to add to your tank...

Alky is a good solution. The only issue I have with it is pump failure. If you step on the go pedal and something happens and that alky isn't there, POP.

You start engineering in failsafes, like wiring in a solenoid to dump the wastegate if the alky line pressure goes to zero, and the cost and complexity starts to climb.

 

[bsdlinux]

Originally posted by denn454
i've never found any of the in the bottle stuff that works.

Lead Supreme

It has lead but it also works well. Probably better or about the same as Torco. Some might have problems with O2.


http://www.batterystuff.com/fuel/lead_supreme130/lead_supreme130.htm