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Old 2008-07-30, 03:37 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by M3n2c3 View Post
I've put nothing but Chevron in the car since day one. . . but yeah, I tried 91 for a while and switched back to 87. It didn't seem to make much of a difference for daily driving.

This kinda bugs me. . . the manual just recommends 87 octane. . . if this isn't unusual, you'd think there would be something in the manual saying, "but if you don't want to knock your way up hills, use 91."
At our altitude, 87 drives more like 89 anyway. Unless you've got a really bad gas station that's always way under the rating, something else is wrong.

Any chance you're getting a lot of blow-by oil running through the intake? That'll drop the effective octane of the intake charge a bunch.
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