View Poll Results: What Octane/Grade fuel do you fill up with?
Cheapest possible
12
7.32%
Mid-grade
9
5.49%
High octane/ premium
143
87.20%
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What octane gas do you use?
#112
07-08-2016, 08:50 AM
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Brother, aviation gasoline is not kerosene. but i remember reading about a DC-3 that some kid fueled with jet-A - old gooney bird lost an engine below critical air speed on take-off...one always stops first...anyway if you're a pilot you know where that went...
i buy what they say is the best they got - supposed to be 91.
For my old FX evo, for the sporty, for my XS Yamahas... - all same same - best I can get. I'm partial to Chevron premium, but not fussy. Gasoline is the cheapest stuff we buy for our scooters...
but in the back country alls you can get is crappy regular - so i carry a couple of 1 oz tubes of "rocket-fuel" tucked into a 6 5/8 " long piece of plastic sch 40 conduit and taped closed - so they don't get punctured and leak in the panniers.
i buy what they say is the best they got - supposed to be 91.
For my old FX evo, for the sporty, for my XS Yamahas... - all same same - best I can get. I'm partial to Chevron premium, but not fussy. Gasoline is the cheapest stuff we buy for our scooters...
but in the back country alls you can get is crappy regular - so i carry a couple of 1 oz tubes of "rocket-fuel" tucked into a 6 5/8 " long piece of plastic sch 40 conduit and taped closed - so they don't get punctured and leak in the panniers.
good point here
I am at the airport almost daily and I see a lot of old car junkies and amateur race drivers show up to buy the hi-octane AV-gas and occationally buy the jet gas (Kerosene) by accident
there are 2 separate pumps,
1- marked 100LL which stands for 100 octane + low lead (a blue dye is added)
2- Marked Jet-A which is similar to Kerosene or Diesel but filtered & (clear, no color)
obviously the 100LL is the one they are looking for but at a current price of $4.15/gal as of 07/07/2016 in Fargo ND i do not see any point as most ground based vehicles do not need nor benefit from octane levels above 93
#113
07-08-2016, 09:28 AM
High octane does not have more energy than regular.
http://www.appropedia.org/Energy_content_of_fuels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
http://www.appropedia.org/Energy_content_of_fuels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
#114
07-08-2016, 09:31 AM
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#115
07-08-2016, 03:34 PM
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#116
07-08-2016, 03:52 PM
Poll results at the top of the page confirm that most run 93
#117
07-08-2016, 10:09 PM
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#119
07-13-2016, 02:04 PM
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#120
09-01-2016, 11:54 PM
Just picked up a '97 1200cc.
Manual says "Use a good quality unleaded gasoline. For a carburetor equipped vehicle use at least 87 octane gasoline. For sequential port injected vehicles use at least 91 octane gasoline. Octane rating is usually found on the pump"
So I should just be using 87, no benefit to 89 or 91?
Manual says "Use a good quality unleaded gasoline. For a carburetor equipped vehicle use at least 87 octane gasoline. For sequential port injected vehicles use at least 91 octane gasoline. Octane rating is usually found on the pump"
So I should just be using 87, no benefit to 89 or 91?