Octane Boosters

[Plan-FAILURE]

Do you use octane boosters and what do you think of them?

James

[paulr33]

you shouldnt need to use them

if you have to use them to stop your engine pinging/detonating your tune is toast, your CAS is toast, you are running too much boost, or too shit fuel

tune the car correctly and you shouldnt need to run octane booster

[Plan-FAILURE]

LOL dude I've never run octane booster in my rb20det. Its only done 8000kms on my new build and runs like a dream.

And I've never used it to stop pinging/detonation also.

Purely asking as higher octane = more HP

I should have probably said Octane Boosters with 98 Octane PULP or E85....

[defari]

never tried them - was always told they are just a gimmick

[R31Nismoid]

Please use the search - covered a fair bit in General Automotive discussion.

Basically - they are OK as a once off, you get you by.

Forget every tank usage though, they make a mess of your plugs with extended use.

But anyway, more detail in the Gen Auto, 4-5 page thread on it a couple weeks ago IIRC

Thanks.