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Re: Octane boost brand
From: "benf802961(at)aol.com" <benf802961(at)aol.com>
Subject: Re: Octane boost brand
Date: 23 Sep 2005 22:16:19 -0700
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95% of Octane Booster is just snake oil.
It won`t hurt anything but your pocketbook.
From: Barking Rats <noemails(at)myemail.com>
Subject: Re: Octane boost brand
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:39:56 -0700
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In article <1127538979.795543.158050(at)o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
"benf802961(at)aol.com" <benf802961(at)aol.com> wrote:
> 95% of Octane Booster is just snake oil.
> It won`t hurt anything but your pocketbook.
Is this a personal opinion or can you cite any reference material I
might be able to look at?
As I mentioned, I`m not after the boost as much as the lead substitution
and fuel stabilization qualities. 94 octane unleaded seems to do OK in
my 427 - though i don`t get my foot in it very hard, very often.
Here`s waving to ya - ||||
Owen
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From: PJ <pj4380(at)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Octane boost brand
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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:50:31 -0700
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Barking Rats wrote:
> In article <1127538979.795543.158050(at)o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
> "benf802961(at)aol.com" <benf802961(at)aol.com> wrote:
>
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>>95% of Octane Booster is just snake oil.
>>It won`t hurt anything but your pocketbook.
>
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> Is this a personal opinion or can you cite any reference material I
> might be able to look at?
No credentials for the folks in <
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-395658.html >; but,
one poster says that auto store products are mostly legit--only the
decimal point is in a different place. "Four points" of boost means
that it raises octane from 87 to 87.4. Thread also has a formula for
adding bulk xylene or toluene to gasoline--remember that xylene attacks
some plastics and toluene is toxic. As a kid I breathed a lot of
toluene cleaning engines (perhaps the reason I`m senile 55 years later).
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> As I mentioned, I`m not after the boost as much as the lead substitution
> and fuel stabilization qualities. 94 octane unleaded seems to do OK in
> my 427 - though i don`t get my foot in it very hard, very often.
Here`s a Brit thread < http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/LRP.html >
that contains less environmental emotion on the lead topic and it offers
some substitute products. I hadn`t realized that the Brits were a
couple of decades behind us in making a universal move to
stellite/hardened valve seats. If you opt for a manganese product, it
might be available in Canada as they are more tolerant of manganese
additives that we are in the U.S.
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> Here`s waving to ya - ||||
>
> Owen
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> `67BB & `72BB
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> -- not affiliated with JLA forum in any way -- alt.autos.corvette is
> original posting --
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> "To know the world intimately is the beginning of caring."
> -- Ann Hayman Zwinger
...PJ
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