umm it has toluene in it as well.
and its the fact that E blended fuel have a tendancy to wear out fuel componts and seals and the like.
Ethanol has been around for many years as has toluene.
there is nothing wrong with it for cars that can work with it, where nissan has said not too use it then i wont use it.
as for more power well who knows, i have used all the 98RON fuels and i find that vortex is the best then BP then shell is the worst this is for my car that dont mean that its gospel and is the same for all cars.it coulda been that when i used the shell stuff that it was a bit older and therefor the octane rating had dropped from 98.
if you use a 98ron fuel in a car tuned for 91-95 then it will make not much difference at all it can actually be detremental for the car and loose power and instead of cleaning it it could actually carbon it up.
but using 91-95RON fuel on a car designed for 98RON that is worse, my gf new car Golf GTi needs 98 to run cannot use anything less then that, and VW say that you can use ethanol in there cars without a problem so i will be waiting for it too come closer too me out penrith way and then tell her to try a few tanks of it and see how it goes, but i wont be putting it in my pulsar that is for sure.
goto this link to find out about the cars compatability with ethonal fuels
http://www.fcai.com.au/ethanol.php/2004/11/00000001.html
and here for the safty and spec sheet on the new fuel
http://www-static.shell.com/static/au-en/d...ds_version1.pdf
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