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["Roland Johansson" <scirocco@mail.bip.net>]

All Sciroccos "can" run on low octane but some model will get
problem with pinging and some versions will loose power.



Roland Johansson
Scirocco 1,6l TIC -82
Http://hem.passagen.se/toker


> The last line does say with a typo IF you can run low do it :)
I know not
> all cars can But all stock sciroccos could
> 
> > On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 04:24:37AM -0700, Mike wrote:
> > > Does anyone really know what octane is?  I did a exhausted
study on
> > >  content and quality of gas. You are probably going to be
blown away by
> > > what I have found! Octane is shit!!! Octane is nothing
more than an inhi
> > > bitor to keep gas from exploding as violently and straight
gas.
> > > Thereforewhen you use higher octane you get less explosion
resulting in
> > > less burn and as a result you get less HP not more
> >
> > You did not take something into consideration. Compression
ratio. By
> > changing the CR, either by altering the combustion chamber
volume or by
> > addition of a super/turbo charger, you are increasing the
thermodynamic
> > efficiency of the combustion process. To do this, you need
to use a fuel
> > that can resist preignition, a higher octane fuel. The HP
gained by a
> > more efficient combustion more than offsets the HP lost to a
higher
> > octane.
> >
> > Running high octane in a regular 8:1 CR engine is nothing
but a waste of
> > money, but high octane in an 11:1 engine, like in my 16v, is
necessary to
> > extract the maximum horsepower.
> >
> > DAn


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