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Reply #15 - 03/17/05 at 04:06:12

you guys are gonna make me crack!! Grin

I should try that on some of my friends IQ scores and see if it helps.

I may also be wrong about this, and I may also be showing how old I am, but, does anyone remember the 70's? were'nt the original ratings more like this?

86- Economy (I called this water)
87- low octane
89- regular
92 - super
93.5 - Ultra (sunoco)

It wasnt until the newer computer controls that allowed cars to run on the lower 87 that made people start calling it regular.

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Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading!
Reply #16 - 03/17/05 at 06:33:02

Yeah, I remember that, they had different names for it like Ethyl instead of regular and Sunoco had a dinosaur on the logo. You had to ask for unleaded if you could find a station that carried it. They were the good old days with steel dashboards and no seat belts, skinny tires and big block engines Grin

. From what I've been able to pick up you can buy higher octane gas at the pump in europe. Here in the states you need to go to a racetrack or airport to get anything over 93 octane.
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10802 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading! Reply #17 - 03/17/05 at 07:44:54 Oooooh....115 octane aviation gas is some fun stuff.......
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading! Reply #18 - 03/17/05 at 07:49:12 Just came back from refueling my little Fiat Panda. regular 95 octane 1,235 Euros / liter :'( Premium 98 octane 1,295 Euros / liter :'( back in the late 60 when I started my carrier in aviation I worked on Douglas DC7 airplanes, they used to run on 115/135 octane. Greetz Kropatchek
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Red_Wine Senior Member Offline Chain-drive, 400cc Black Savage in Chile Posts: 478 Santiago, Chile Gender:	Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading! Reply #19 - 03/18/05 at 06:47:02 Hi Fellas, just FYI, here in Chile we can get only 93, 95 and 97 octane unleaded gas at any pump station... prices are a joke though, 93 = CH$505 (US$0.85 per LITER) 95 = CH$510 (US$0.86 per LITER) 97 = CH$515 (US$0.87 per LITER) The above means US$3.32 a gallon of gas RW
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Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading!
Reply #20 - 03/18/05 at 07:11:30

Higher octane doesn't always mean better. The aviation gas has very high octane # , because it contains a lot of lead. It doesn't give it more burning energy. The only way to benefit is to raise the compression ratio. Years ago I was used to put 100+ octane aviation gas in my 2stroke MZ. The only benefit was that I was not paying for it. Grin

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Reply #21 - 03/19/05 at 03:01:28

Kropatchek wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

Just came back from refueling my little Fiat Panda.

regular 95 octane 1,235 Euros / liter :'(
Premium 98 octane 1,295 Euros / liter :'(

back in the late 60 when I started my carrier in aviation I worked on Douglas DC7 airplanes, they used to run on 115/135 octane.

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Which comes to $3.60 a gallon.

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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading! Reply #22 - 03/19/05 at 03:05:10 I used to have a Fiat Panda, it leaked oil, does Yours ? Clive W
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading! Reply #23 - 03/19/05 at 03:07:02 klx650sm2002 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: I used to have a Fiat Panda, it leaked oil, does Yours ? Clive W It consumes it. No leaks. Kropatchek
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Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading!
Reply #24 - 03/19/05 at 03:17:58

As long as the bike is a sipper, I'll keep putting gas in it. Regular 87 octane crap hit 2.28 USD a gallon just up the road from the house. Ridiculous! Guess my 8.5mpg truck is getting parked soon... The truck has to run premium (91-93 octane), which is 2.58 a gallon at the same station. Still cheaper than diesel, 2.88 and rising. I feel sorry for the truckers, going to be alot of hungry people this summer when the long haul trucking industry dies.
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Oklahoma_Mike Senior Member 2005 No Login Offline With two on the ground love can be found Posts: 426 Tulsa Oklahoma Area Gender:	Re: Life After the Oil Crash - Scary Reading! Reply #25 - 03/19/05 at 04:53:57 And diesel is really a byproduct of other production it is in essence the scum of the oil. doesn’t make any sense?? Someone is making a killing on this stuff!!!!!
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