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Here's what I do.

I tune the car at the fuel I will use everyday.

Which is Mobil Synergy 8000 (Yay for Fuel Cards!!)

Then, put a gut full of V-Power EXTREEEEEM RACING SICK BRO VTECH YO fuel in and take the car to your tuner.

Have then spin the thing up on the dyno and using the blanket adjustments in the PFC adjust fuel and timing to suit.

Then, when you want to go racing, put the fuel in, adjuste blanket timing and fuel numbers and go play.

that way you don't have to get nervous about going long distances and not have access to the fuel.

Also stops you from having it tuned with the good fuel and having to adust blanket numbers every time you get in your car.

:D

BASS OUT

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I use it in my car and it runs really well, Ben from Race Pace insists it is the only fuel i should run my car on after he tuned it.

Because if a car is tuned on 100+RON fuel, and then driven with 98RON, its like a car that needs 98 being driven on regular....knock time

Because if a car is tuned on 100+RON fuel, and then driven with 98RON, its like a car that needs 98 being driven on regular....knock time

Really? I have ran mine on 95 and it was fine. I didnt run out running big bolost or reving the hell out ot it. But it drove fine. No pinging at all. Though i wasnt game to give it a good few hits and try and get it to knock

Really? I have ran mine on 95 and it was fine. I didnt run out running big bolost or reving the hell out ot it. But it drove fine. No pinging at all. Though i wasnt game to give it a good few hits and try and get it to knock

lol well there you go. Drive the car how it was tuned to be driven, ie giving it some boost and I think its safe to say it'd ping.

We could probably all fill up with 91 RON and be fine, but as soon as soon as you hit boost i'd say it'd be all over.

lol well there you go. Drive the car how it was tuned to be driven, ie giving it some boost and I think its safe to say it'd ping.

We could probably all fill up with 91 RON and be fine, but as soon as soon as you hit boost i'd say it'd be all over.

But you dont need to drive around doing fully sick 7000rpm gear changers during everyday driving

Yeh thats my point. I gave it a few runs using 8psi (my lowest boost setting) and the thing drove fine. Not every drive down to the video shop is a GP :)

Though after doing it for a few weeks i thought to myself "stop beign such a tight ass, its only a few dollars extra a tank" but i did with no real probs.

Main reason i stopped doing it is i kinda guess if i was going to get a dodgy tank of fuel with water and crap in it, perhaps it was more likely to come with the crappy fuel?!?!?

But you dont need to drive around doing fully sick 7000rpm gear changers during everyday driving

Did I say I drive like that everyday?

personally I have only ever used 98RON, and I see no reason to use anything else. I knew the car needed premium when I bought it, so thats what it gets, and I do a lot of km's.

all this V-Power is just a marketing exercise. Its just the same Optimax and Optimax extreme but rebranded to go with the global Shell marketing name.

as long as everyone knows that optimax extreme has 5% ethanol.....and ethanol leans out mixtures by quite a bit.....

are u sure the v power is the new "optimax extreme" ?

i always thought the v power stuff was red at the bowser and is the replacement for normal optimax and that optimax extreme was still called that and avaiable

Well i just found out that it looks as though i am running ths straight V-power, not V-Power Racing.

I can say that there is no way V-Power is the same as Optimax, as there is no way my car use to run as well as it currently does on Optimax. Let alone the extra ignition the engine it is taking. My car normally ran better on the BP and Mobil fuel.

The fact that the straight V-Power is performing the way it is...im very interested in running the V-Power Racing.

Optimax and V-Max are different blends, with Shell now having removed the toluene that was used as an octane booster in Optimax. Both the V-Max fuels are blended to European emissions standards as well.

the PFC FAQ tells you how to use poor mans 91 and 93 ron fuels

ive done it a few times in shitty towns that have only pesant fuel. as long as you don't load the engine up and come on boost over and over it should be fine.

just watch the knock levels and keep backing more and more timing. it will flat as a $2 whore but will drive fine and get you out of a sticky situation

:sorcerer:

i got the beast tuned to 265 racepace rwkws on ultimate..

Ben suggested i use v-racing and i am very impressed with it so far...

car feels stronger and more responsive with v-racing as opposed to ultimate...

On my third tank...

i usualy get around 300kms on BP ultimate. I am getting 320kms on VPR... But my custom tune which was originally for BP 98 is working much better on VPR. Heaps more mid-range from my seat-o-pants meter.

Only thing I have noticed is at high RPM in 4th gear the car is tapering boost out earlier...

Yeah, its cause its leaning it out ever so slightly and your getting a little more power from it :P

Finer6

What mods are you running in your typhoon to get such low milage?

Nispro XR6t power tune... not the economy one (obviously) hehehe :rofl:

It smells like optimax and tastes like regular petrol.

I found shit-f**k-all difference between it and the old optimax in my r32... dad's aristoid got 20km's more, but I'm guessing that's coz he didn't give the 2JZ enough curry.

I prefer the BP Ultimate.

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