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85URK Grand Master

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the only place that i have seen iton the coast is at shell currimundi, and i wasnt going to pay $1.38/L just to cruise around town so i gave it a miss, if it did give u a power gain id put it in to go to the track or sumthing if i ever was, but in my opinion it isnt worth it for round town driving.

The Dan Grand Master

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I sometimes think that people don't get it....You don't have to retune your car to get benefits from it. If you have the stock ECU you can reset it to modify the settings to suit the new fuel. If you have a powerFC or something similar you don't have to go to a dyno and get it run again...that's just stupid. The 5% of ethanol will not harm your engine in any way as it's NOT splash blended, it's refined that way and, therefore, is not that same as just adding straight ethanol. A lot of you have been reading all that crap about E10....Optimax extreme 100 is not E10.....E10 is a 10% blend and can effect some of the newer cars. Due to the fact that it wears runbber out slightly faster than normal fuel....that doesn't mean that running a few tanks of it is gonna make your engine explode. And because the new 100 ron is only 5% it has even less of an adverse effect than the E10. I have run several tanks of the 100 and have noticed a couple of things...My car runs borderline tuning and will ping extremely heavily on 95 (premium unleaded) so I have to run the BP ultimate which is 98. I have to say be careful as I have found that some BP's are actually putting premium into their Ultimate tanks so be aware of this. On a hot day, sometimes the car will ping when using the 98....using the 100 stops it and it doesn't ping at all....ever. The second thing I noticed was fuel economy went crap. I used it up twice as fast as the 98.

Running a higher octane fuel will give added power gains whether you believe it or not....that is fact. It will decrease the likelyhood of detonation so protects your engine that little bit more.

85URK Grand Master

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i agree with u dan, only thing i was talking about is to me ( a owner of a stock R33 gtst) i dont think its worth it 2 pay $1.28+ a litre for me to drive my car around town when in actual fact im not racing any1 or trying to get my car down the strip quicker or gain more h.p. for round town driving, so i wouldnt buy it, there is no need for me to atm. but if i was on the dyno or trying to gain power, drags, etc i definately would try it. its gota make sum difference over all.

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If shell says it is not to be used on nissans made before 2004 there must be a reason. it may not be that it makes it run like a dog or lose power maybe it can have long term effects too.

The Dan Grand Master

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Shell only say that because Nissan told them to. They had to get approval from all car manufacturers and issue a statement to confirm whether that manufacturer would allow it. Fact is that ethanol eats away at rubber. The rubber which makes up the fuel lines and the rubber seals in your injectors. It also burns leaner and dryer. It only has adverse effects in a more than 10% mix though and even at 10% it would take like 10 years to damage an injector and you would have to be constantly running it through the system. The shell 100 is not potent enough to have any of these effects whatsoever.....the statement which was issued regarding all car manufacturers was in relation to E10 which is a more concentrated mix.

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It will use more fuel as Ethanol like Methenol or any alcohol fuel is no where near as burn efficient-my old methanol dragster(99.5% methanol) would use double the fuel a hydrocarbon burning dragster (c16, unleaded or whichever) would use.

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