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05-16-2006, 02:25 AM | #1 |
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Anyone know if any GAS STATIONS that have better gas?
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05-16-2006, 02:36 AM | #2 |
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its all exactly the same man.
really. arco is your friend. costco. whatever. any station that doesn't seem totally shady is fine. my grandpa was in the wholesale gas business for 40 years. he would deliver a tanker of gas to shell...the gas market is/was volatile...if the shell station had gotten a better deal, and already purchased gas that day, then he'd just sell the same gas to an amoco station down the way. |
05-16-2006, 12:37 PM | #3 |
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Dont certain brands like Chevron, Texaco, Shell, BP...etc.. put their own additivies to make their gas different from the other guys?
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05-16-2006, 07:14 PM | #4 |
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i heard arco is pisswater...
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05-16-2006, 07:40 PM | #5 |
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^^^ same cali91 pisswater as chevron, without engine detergents that probably do nothing.
but hey, its your money. |
05-16-2006, 07:49 PM | #6 | |
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although, it makes me wonder if "Top Tier" gasoline is different from, say, second tier gasoline? |
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05-17-2006, 03:24 AM | #7 |
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top tier is different from second tier. runnin arco 91 is like top tier 89 lol
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05-17-2006, 11:55 AM | #8 | |
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have you ever mixed water and gas? they don't mix |
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05-17-2006, 01:54 PM | #9 |
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^ thats the irony of the joke. the fact that water is not at all like gasoline.
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05-17-2006, 02:04 PM | #10 | |
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05-17-2006, 02:14 PM | #11 |
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Top Tier Gas and the Retailers:
http://www.toptiergas.com/retailers.html |
05-17-2006, 02:15 PM | #12 |
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no no no no no no no no and no......not all 91 oct is the same. I only fill up at 76 for a reason. Back when I had the sti and was just putting in the 20g my motor nearly blew because of chevrons pos fuel. While dyno tuning my car would refuse to make power and would det all over the place, the problem was chevrons so called 91 fuel. We took out the remaining fuel and filled up with some 76 91 oct and all was well, it made power again and no more det. It may say 91 but I don't think we are getting a true 91 over here thats why I fill up 1.5 gallons 0f 101 on every tank.
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05-17-2006, 02:40 PM | #13 |
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Not sure if its my imagination, but I'd swear my car runs better when I get gas from certain stations (regardless of brand).
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05-17-2006, 04:05 PM | #14 | ||
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and it happens all the time. and thats a fact. |
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05-17-2006, 08:27 PM | #15 |
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I have heard from tuners that as a general rule, less detergents in the gas equal just a little more power. The trade-off for the little bit of extra power is that carbon deposits can build up with out the detergents. So what I was told to do was run the cheaper brands with non-detergent or lower detergent gasolines most of the time and then run a tank of something like Chevron or Shell every once in a while.
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05-17-2006, 09:15 PM | #16 |
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Dont Attend Costco. My Buddy With An 04 Wrx Used Their Gas And His Gas Reader Wouldnt Read How Much Gas Was In There And Would Jump Around And He Finally Took It In And They Had Asked Him If He Used Costco Gas And He Said Yah And They Had Told Him That Their Gas Will Mess Our Cars Up.
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05-17-2006, 09:24 PM | #17 |
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Gas reader?
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05-17-2006, 09:50 PM | #18 |
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assuming they're refering to the gauge?
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05-17-2006, 09:53 PM | #19 | |
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05-17-2006, 11:37 PM | #20 |
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i had a problem with my old RS and talked to SOA and they asked if i ever used Arco gas "subarus aren't meant to run on Arco" or something like that. i dunno but i never used em since. i usually hit up shell or 76 and have no probs
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05-17-2006, 11:40 PM | #21 | |
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05-18-2006, 12:02 AM | #22 |
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i notice a difference in fuels in my car. Never tried arco in the wrx. Mobil gas is crap for my daily driving. With a full tank of mobil ill get about 220 miles with a full tank. On cold morning it will det.
With shells and chevron i get about 240 miles on a full tank, same driving style. On cold morning i get no det. Car seems to run smoother. With 76 gas i get about 260 miles with a full tank car seems to pull just slighter harder and smoother. No det. I have logged data in my car before thats how i know i get det. Ecus pulls time when it dets. Hope that gives you an idea on effects of those fuels with my drdiving habits and my car (03 wrx,cobb stg2) |
05-18-2006, 02:24 AM | #23 |
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Cheaper fuels can have a higher RON and a lower MON. I'm far from a fuel chemist. All I know is that 76 has the highest MON and that lots of tuners like to use shell because it has the lowest MON. You can tune to the highest MON available and run nothing but 76, but you run the risk of running out of gas when there are no 76 stations around. Dumping a few degrees of timing will let you run ray-ray's discount gas. Stock ECU mappings don't run as much timing as the engine allows to make sure that engines aren't popping left and right due to bad/wrong gas. Start playing with the timing for more power and well... having a 76 credit card gets you discounts. |
05-18-2006, 02:54 AM | #24 |
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you guys are all retarded. run 87, its cheaper and its the same as 91.
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05-18-2006, 10:49 AM | #25 | |
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i tend to use 76.... just b/c it's the cheapest around. the only time i had "bad gas" was from a husky station up in monterey. filled up with 91 and had pinging under heavy load. |
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