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Cubes Grand Master

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Hey ppls,

I've been watching the shell/coles website for some time now waiting for the Shell Optimax Extreme 100ron to be available in SA.

http://www.coles-express.com.au/locator.asp

Findon Coles/Shell is seeing upgrades, fingers crossed we will have 100ron soon. :/

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Hey ppls,

I've been watching the shell/coles website for some time now waiting for the Shell Optimax Extreme 100ron to be available in SA.

http://www.coles-express.com.au/locator.asp

Findon Coles/Shell is seeing upgrades, fingers crossed we will have 100ron soon. :)

Hey peoples :rofl: we've had it in Sydney for the past couple of months, i've tried it a couple of times and I didnt notice much of a diffrence.... except in the pocket (about 7-8 cents difference).... I find my car runs well enough on the 98 octane based fuels.... enjoy :huh:

Cubes Grand Master

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Heslo & Smoky,

You won't notice any difference by simply dropping it in. The car needs to be tuned to suit. Well basically ign. timing advanced and 'possibly' even though its only 5% afr's richened up a tad.

If your running on a stock ecu and simply drop the 100ron in it won't do anything..

Madaz,

Mine won't run on 95ron, pings its arse off. :)

When it had the stock motor and ecu in it it was 'ok' on 95ron but I wasn't able to dial in any static ign. timing via the cas. 15degree's was it.

I dropped 98ron in to it advanced it a few degree's and picked up ~10rwkw.

Which was a lot when it was dead stock... 115rwkw to 125rwkw. :P

But yer 5% ethanol. Hardly anything. I have no issues running it.

Out come my coles dockets. :blink:

Busky2k,

Apparently its 5c more over optimax in syndey and the like.

I'm going to throw it on the dyno, quick tune and power run. Then a tank full of optimax extreme and another quick tune and power run. Shall be interesting to see what gains are to be had with my setup.

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Wouldn't bother for my car. Unless your car is seriously hotted up or you plan on hitting the track it's not worth it for the sake of a handfull of kw's you're not going to notice. I'd also want to be able to quickly switch between engine maps if I had to change from one to the other.

Wouldn't run 95 though. I've had mine ping a bit on 98 let alone 95.

Hope you don't run your boost very high Madaz.

Cubes Grand Master

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I'll have the few extra kw's as my coles docket will equal out the difference. :(

Its easy enough to pull out a little ign. for a whole tank of fuel should I need to drop 98 or even ULP in it.

ULP requires me to drop from memory when I tested 6-7degree's.

Got the map laying around some where.

Either way I'm going to have a fiddle. I'm a fiddler. :/

Unless ping is really ringland breaking bad its not easy to hear UNLESS your up against cement guard rail.

Thats how I used to do all my crude fiddlings prior to the PFC days.

J_Red33 Experienced

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Yeah that's it, I'm a fiddler too, but I don't want to have to carry a timing light in the boot all the time. Can't you set the map on the PFC so that the timing changes anyway? If I can't do it quickly & painlessly then I don't wanna know.

My 33's an everydayer & I don't want to be changing my timing once or twice a week if I keep getting different fuel ta very much. But if you want to go do that knock yourself out mate :(

Cubes Grand Master

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Yeah that's it, I'm a fiddler too, but I don't want to have to carry a timing light in the boot all the time. Can't you set the map on the PFC so that the timing changes anyway? If I can't do it quickly & painlessly then I don't wanna know.

My 33's an everydayer & I don't want to be changing my timing once or twice a week if I keep getting different fuel ta very much. But if you want to go do that knock yourself out mate :P

I only ever run BP98 at the moment, never anything else. So really for myself it would be no different if I ran Optimax Extreme.. Fill up once a fortnight and be done with it.

The PFC.. Yep there is a temporary ign. overall trim or you can 'simply' lol @ simply jump in to the ign map and change the values across your WOT load points quickly... Depending how well versed with the h/c you are it will only take a minute.

Myself personally.. If I dropped a tank of bp98 in it I know its going to be in there for close to 500km's, so I'll spend the 1 minute pulling a few degree's out of load points 16,17 & 18.

I got pretty damn good fuel economy on the cruise, done 187km's and ever so slightly over 1/4 of a tank.

I remember seeing 140km's to a 1/4. :(

Busky2k....!!!! Where were u? :/

Cubes Grand Master

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Well yer.. I usually just cruise it around changing up at around 2-2.5k.

Still always in front of traffic at the lights but.

It has been tuned, running a new genuine o2 sensor, and recently cleaned injectors. :(

The old injectors had 350km's per tank, and it felt as if it went bad overnight. I replaced O2 sensor and it made no difference. So injectors in my case it was. Was a good excuse to drop larger ones in. :/

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