Premium Vs Regular Unleaded

[SKYL1N]

Which Do You Use

I ussually use Premium but as im short on money this week i filled up with regular.. is this bad, what do you use?

Edited September 2, 2007 by finster

[adam-__-]

Always 95ron+ If you use regular, try not to boost your car. The minimum you should use is 95 octane fuel.

Edit: I remembered you have a NA Skyline.

Edited September 2, 2007 by adam-__-

[Yo-Yo]

I used to have an N/A r33 & 95 petrol is fine

try to put 98 fuel in it when you can

[r32line]

using 91 on a skyline is not a good idea.... ping pong............

[iseekool]

95 is the minimum, even for the NA version. I wouldn't risk putting anything lower. Damage = more $$$ as opposed to a few extra dollars for premium.

[mesmerized]

seeing as my line was designed to run on 100RON, i'm not gonna be a tight ass and run it on 91 or 95RON. it's only a few dollars extra for decent fuel ffs

bp ultimate or vpower racing

Edited September 6, 2007 by into oblivion

[abu]

What fuel do most of you guys use? (BP ULTIMATE, SHELL V-POWER? etc..)

I use MOBIL High Octane stuff, its a purple colour. It's been pretty good for me so far, is there much difference in brands?

[mesmerized]

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...p;hl=fuel+types

[adam-__-]

I just want to add that running your car on 91 octane fuel could give you less km from a tank than if you're running on 98. The money you save by running on 91 octane fuel is not all that much if anything at all when you're filling up your tank more.

In other words, you could get 300km out of a tank of 91 octane fuel, but you could get 350km out of a tank of 98 octane. Your engine is tuned to 100 octane fuel.

Edited September 3, 2007 by adam-__-

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

there's non premium fuel?

[SKYL1N]

there's non premium fuel?

its called diesel.. you should put it in ur tank and give it a shot some time

[Daniel R32]

The BP up here (karratha) dosnt sell ultimate 98 they only have premium. Premium is the highest octane we get so i might have to get my car tuned to that. . . . or add tollune (spelling) every time

[pixel8r]

These cars were only ever built for the local japanese market. Japan as far as I know isn't aware of fuel lower than at least 95RON so none of their cars are made to run on 91RON fuel. Especially skylines and related cars. I believe japanese fuel is above 100RON so I'd recommend 98 as its the closest you can get in many parts of australia. Some states have 100RON (lucky ppl) although that comes at a higher price too. 98 is quite safe.

Depending on how your car is tuned, you may have trouble even with 95RON - i know my stagea pings a little on it. Its BP Ultimate98 for my stagea. Have tried shell vpower but wasn't as happy with it. Each to their own.

Offtopic a little - I often wonder how many people who buy these new hot hatches and other new aussie-delivered cars realise that they need to run on 95RON or higher??

Many of us are only vaguely aware that 91RON fuel exists, and yet most people out there are unaware there is anything OTHER than 91RON...

It doesn't matter who sells it, if its cheap, people will put it in their cars.

[deant1]

always premium.

although this week i happened to get some AVGAS for free... about 25l. lol.

so that went in my tank which mixed with 10litres of premium. better stuff

[NISZILA]

BP Ultimate FTW

[Bumblebee]

BP ultimate in my GTR, although i run boost 98 in my civic.. and it sure feels real peaky lol and gets more km per tank, so i might try run that in the GTR and see what i get on dyno to see if theres any difference

[jimmytim]

BP Ultimate, close to home.

[JVP]

i use 95RON in the stagea, mind you its stock.

every 2nd or 3rd tank, its either BP ultimate, or V-Power.

[Simmo1985]

I only ever run BP Ultimate. I've found it to be the best fuel for me.. Never really tried Shell optimax though.

Previous owner used to use Caltex Vortex - he filled up my car with it prior to handing it over, car would ping occasionally at higher revs. BP Ultimate has not done this.

[timheather]

Seriously, how much do you really save filling up with cheaper fuel.... a few dollars. Then take into account less k's from the tank of cheaper fuel..... if you need that $5 you saved that badly, maybe you should buy another car.