Anyone use it where high octane isn't available? Works to stop pinging? Or snake oil?
Hearing conflicting reports of its effectiveness on 4T engines.
Hearing conflicting reports of its effectiveness on 4T engines.
I think F9 did a review.
Link? Can't find it.
With today’s technology in automotive, most of inefficiency in fuel can be made up with the onboard technology of the vehicle. Things like variable timing spark advance, variable valve timingHere’s another link. It’s a scientific review
Edit: pretty interesting actually!
Follow-up question - which motorcycles have knock detection? S1000RR, K1600GT, V-Rods, other Harleys (Twin Cam 103s? IDK much about them and Google ain't helping)
Would local aviation fuel do the same job?
Tell me more about that last bit about being able to run regular gas in a KTM adv bike.....The paper was interesting. Basically looking at how lower octane fuel can be converted into higher octane fuel for greater efficiency in modern engines for less CO2 emissions. From what I read it seemed to suggest that yes this can be done and there are various additives that can do it. I guess there’s some involved calculations to see whether it’s economically worth it on a large scale though.
Many additives I’ve seen are naphtha based and I don’t know what volume of them you’d need realistically (what actually works to boost an octane rating may be different to the “just add x drops to see a gazillion HP boost” claims on the bottle) but let’s say you need a lot, then the fuel bladders used for regular gas should be fine for transport. They will likely be flammable, none of the bladders are opaque so light isn’t an issue.
My KTM ADV bike has a plug that gets shoved into somewhere and then you can run lower octane gas. Does the enduro have anything like that?
Tell me more about that last bit about being able to run regular gas in a KTM adv bike.....
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Tell me more about that last bit about being able to run regular gas in a KTM adv bike.....
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"Boosts octane by 10 points" in big letters. In really really tiny letters, there are 10 points per number so it boosts from 87 to 88.
.100%. The big lettering is horribly and intentionally misleading, but when you read the fine print, some are even worse than that......I've seen stuff on the shelf at Canadian Tire that says "treats 100L and adds 10 points!" so people think they're going from 87 to 97 on a 100L tank of gas, but when you start reading the fine print you see that you might only get to 87.5 Octone, and getting up to 91 on a 100L fill up would need literally 5-7 bottles of the stuff.
Anyhow, I bought a bottle of the VP Octanium as well 2 years ago on the original James Bay Road planning days as my bike needs at least 90 octane, and it's still sitting on the shelf in my garage. One bottle will raise 38L of gas (basically 2 fill ups on my bike if not running on fumes) from 87 to 94 (7 full octane points), so I should be able to use a half dose to go from 87 to 90, so each bottle should do about 4 fill ups, or about 1000km.
Having done the math now I can see I'm going to need another bottle for the JBR trip as I'm pretty sure I've read that the Relais381 doesn't have premium anymore, and I have my doubts about finding it at Chisasibi or Radisson either.
If a gasoline additive claims "10 points" if added to 87 octane regular gasoline it would increase the octane value to 88 octane