General Civic Talk - octane booster...????>>>>*

do you guys run octane boosters? do the help? do they hurt?...when should you run octane booster because ive been seeing different ones advertised in some of my import magazines and i started woundering

Ive used the nos brand booster but unless your going to the track or racing for slips, it's money that could be better spent.

oh ok so for everyday driving and light to light its not gunna help that much? ahah yes i mess around with my little 1.5 liter dx motor...ha i raced a galant the other night and i had him in somewhere around the 8th mile but after that the little 1.5 liter couldnt handle it......lol

dont bother. the store bought octane boosters are a scam. it will say on the bottle that it raises octane up to 7 points. yeah, .1 .2 .3 .... thats right, .7, your dog piss CA 91 octane for 2.28 per gal, say, 6 gallons, so 13.68+ about 7.00 for the booster brings it up to about 3.35 per gallon, and it will be running a vicious 91.7 octane. go to sherwin-williams and buy a gallon of xylene(paint thinner), about an ounce of marvel mystery oil, and a few ounces of kerosene, mix it all together and it should bump a six gallon tank of gas to about 94-95 octane. you can mix this up to about 70-30 with gas. the booster itself is about 117 octane, for about 8-12 bucks a gallon, so figure out the ratios. BTW, on a NA honda, you will see very little(if any) difference with higher octane, unless you have really high compression, like over 11:1

thanks, i know i have read the bottles at the store and it sounds likt he best thing in the world but i never got it because it sounded to good to be true....some of those additives and octane booster say like gain 25 hp andim like YEA Right i think it was an oil additive that said it lowers oil temp up to 40 degrees or sumthing like that

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dont bother. go to sherwin-williams and buy a gallon of xylene(paint thinner), about an ounce of marvel mystery oil, and a few ounces of kerosene, mix it all together and it should bump a six gallon tank of gas to about 94-95 octane. you can mix this up to about 70-30 with gas. the booster itself is about 117 octane, for about 8-12 bucks a gallon, so figure out the ratios. BTW, on a NA honda, you will see very little(if any) difference with higher octane, unless you have really high compression, like over 11:1


Good call, My friend uses (I plan to start soon) toulene... to up your octane. About $8 for 1 1/2 liters. Your 4-banger is made to run on 87-89 octane, so your wasting your money if you dont have any extreme mods.

thanks guys that answerd it...dont plan on using anything until the new moter and the turbo

if you use the toulene or xylene, be sure to pour in a couple of ounces of MMO, the gasoline comes out of the pump with additives in it to protect the motor, but the toulene/xylene doesnt. BTW in my experience, xylene is roughly the same price, maybe a little cheaper, as well as easier to find. Plus, the toulene is roughly 114 octane and the xylene is roughly 117, so the same amount of xylene will bump it a little higher.

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