'cool blue' fuel
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Going back to a previous thread about 95 vs. 98 RON and the various pro's & cons. Have a read of this from Santa Pod's web site
"Cool Blue is a track formulated, street legal, 106 octane unleaded racing gasoline"
"Comparative track testing using three turbocharged 6-cyclinder cars, each producing a boost of 18psi, found Cool blue improved quarter mile performance by a full 0.5 seconds over identical runs performed with premium grade 97 Octane unleaded gasoline."
The report is on
[url] www.santapod.com [/url]
Anybody ever had a whirl with hi-octane in a road Noble ?
"Cool Blue is a track formulated, street legal, 106 octane unleaded racing gasoline"
"Comparative track testing using three turbocharged 6-cyclinder cars, each producing a boost of 18psi, found Cool blue improved quarter mile performance by a full 0.5 seconds over identical runs performed with premium grade 97 Octane unleaded gasoline."
The report is on
[url] www.santapod.com [/url]
Anybody ever had a whirl with hi-octane in a road Noble ?
The whole idea of high-octane fuel is to diminish detonation (abnormal combustion). If the car does not suffer from detonation as a given boost level there are very few advantages in paying out a fortune for higher-octane fuels.
Shell Optimax is slightly different. It’s not the higher-octane rating that increases performance but the magic Shell has worked to make it burn faster. Couple this with the fact my car is mapped around 98 RON and this is why you’ll find me at a Shell forecourt instead of an Esso one or anywhere else.
Incidentally the aforementioned fuel is not actually 106 octane, it just has additives to make it as resistant to knocking as a 106 octane fuel if it were possible (I know it’s splitting hairs, but I thought some of you might like to know).
Octane is mixed with Heptain to give an octane number. 98% octane and 2% heptain would give 98 octane. Other fuels are measured against these sorts of mixtures in terms of how much detonation occurs and when they are the same as a given heptain/octane mix this is how their RON (Research Octane Number) is defined.
Back to your question though – no I have never tried it in a Noble, nor do we have a Noble to try it in yet
Shell Optimax is slightly different. It’s not the higher-octane rating that increases performance but the magic Shell has worked to make it burn faster. Couple this with the fact my car is mapped around 98 RON and this is why you’ll find me at a Shell forecourt instead of an Esso one or anywhere else.
Incidentally the aforementioned fuel is not actually 106 octane, it just has additives to make it as resistant to knocking as a 106 octane fuel if it were possible (I know it’s splitting hairs, but I thought some of you might like to know).
Octane is mixed with Heptain to give an octane number. 98% octane and 2% heptain would give 98 octane. Other fuels are measured against these sorts of mixtures in terms of how much detonation occurs and when they are the same as a given heptain/octane mix this is how their RON (Research Octane Number) is defined.
Back to your question though – no I have never tried it in a Noble, nor do we have a Noble to try it in yet
LaurenceFrost said:
The whole idea of high-octane fuel is to diminish detonation (abnormal combustion). If the car does not suffer from detonation as a given boost level there are very few advantages in paying out a fortune for higher-octane fuels.
Shell Optimax is slightly different. It’s not the higher-octane rating that increases performance but the magic Shell has worked to make it burn faster. Couple this with the fact my car is mapped around 98 RON and this is why you’ll find me at a Shell forecourt instead of an Esso one or anywhere else.
Octane is mixed with Heptain to give an octane number. 98% octane and 2% heptain would give 98 octane. Other fuels are measured against these sorts of mixtures in terms of how much detonation occurs and when they are the same as a given heptain/octane mix this is how their RON (Research Octane Number) is defined.
Thank you for an informative and interesting explanation. I have learned something.
obes said:
What about the new BP 'Ultimate' ?
www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=84705
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