Octane Boost - Fact or Myth?
Octane Boost - Fact or Myth?
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Years age I was told by a respected engineer that if you mix a mid octane gas with a high octane gas, the result would be a gas with an even higher octane. Is this a true synergistic result or just an urban legend?





RE: Octane Boost - Fact or Myth?
RE: Octane Boost - Fact or Myth?
RE: Octane Boost - Fact or Myth?
RE: Octane Boost - Fact or Myth?
Commercially available fuels for highway use do vary in composition from grade to grade, from supplier to supplier, from season to season and from region to region.
To try to predict the outcome of blending, without knowledge of all the components in both fuels, would be a very risky thing to do. Just my opinion, but you will most probably get a weighted average octane, but it could also be better or worse than either component on it's own, or somewhere in between.
Regards
pat pprimmer@acay.com.au
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