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well v power racing fuel is meant to be phased out in NSW..... im looking at a 3 month old photo of the shell petrol station on wicks road at ryde...... there seems to be a red V power racing sign underneath the fuel price sign..... but last night there seems to be a fairly new Green sign that says Vpower racing 5%ethanol in the red signs place...... i didnt stop because i wasnt driving at my gf didnt wanna waste time while i go in and ask the servo whats the deal???? also unlike the other servos that used to have v power racing they dont seem to have the sign on the vpower racing pump that say out of order......

im now wondering if anyone knows if they still have vpower racing there?????

alittle strange when they would have known during the last premium fuel shortage that they were going to phase it out, but still spend money on a new sign?????

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The only shell ive been going to lately that has alaways sold v power racing is the one on king georges rd in Chullora.

Have spoken to him and he told me they are not getting rid of it any time soon?

i dont know if he had no idea about the phasing out, or what the go is, but he reckons it will still be available.

On another note, have you tried bp ulitmate, surprisingly i tried v power(98) first,car ran like shit,

then tried bp ultimate(98), even though theyre both 98 ron, It ran just as good, if not better than the V.P.Racing(100), and my car is still on the Jap tune which i assume is the 100ron!

yeah i dont use shell at all, always vortex 98, i used shell v power(98) once and car was rougher, less power, also helped the car stall, no joke but after usuing vpower car needed a full clean and change of spark plugs, yes these things were on the way out but when i put 3/4 of a tank of vortex 98 the roughness went away and idle got better and it ddint stall, it would nearly stall but it never did, then got sparks changed and cleaned throttle body and its perfect again...... anyway i proved to myself that i'll never use shells 98 fuel, but i wanted to try the racing (5% ethanol) mix..... oh well i'll stick with vortex 98 because i know my car runs smoother on it, i know some would argue the opposite but maybe thats how my car is..... anyway might take a drive to see how shells 100 octane is if they still have some at challora...

but most BPs ive seen charge 4c a litre more than other 98 ron providers... e.g. if unleaded is 1.44 then bp ultimate is 1.58 (14c) where as at mobil if unleaded is 1.44 then 98 is 1.55 (11c) and shell and caltex only charge 10c , doesnt make much of a difference in the end but why always pay another 4c a litre more than what u pay at others

but most BPs ive seen charge 4c a litre more than other 98 ron providers... e.g. if unleaded is 1.44 then bp ultimate is 1.58 (14c) where as at mobil if unleaded is 1.44 then 98 is 1.55 (11c) and shell and caltex only charge 10c , doesnt make much of a difference in the end but why always pay another 4c a litre more than what u pay at others

depends what competition they have, for example my local caltex is the only petrol 10 minutes drive in any direction...... yes there 98ron is 10 cents more expensive instead of 14...... but there basic unleaded price is usually 5 cents more expensive than the others around.... so ends up being the same price,,,,,, well in the hills it is anyway

SORRY TO LET YOU FELLAS KNOW..

V POWER IS NO LONGER EVEN IF THE BOWSER TELLS YOU SO.. ITS JUST 98 OCTANE.

WE WENT TO TRY TUNE THE CAR ON THIS AND IT WAS VERY OLD V POWER AND ENDED UP LOSING ALOT OF POWER. SO DONT USE IT! IF YOU WANT HIGH RATING USE TOULINE OR OCTANE BOOSTER.

yes it needed caps!

caltex is crap

Never had a problem running caltex fuel in mine for 3 years.. Even after tune!!

Even filled up with caltex for all those track days and one drag day..

However i sold my car three weeks ago, otherwise i would have kept using caltex :)

bp ultimate is more expensive. no doubt there. i used it all the time, until recently . but ive found my car runs easily as good on caltex vortex. maybe even better :)

i tried mobil and it won my 'gtfo award'. and i have a thing about shell. i just dont like it.

i have to dissagree with guilt toy, caltex isnt crap, shell is, shell is proven to burn slower and at a lower temperature than bp ultimate and vortex 98,,,,, unless newcastle gets older stocks of vortex 98 fuel and the octane level drops by the time they send it up there (and it is possible this happens).... otherwise here in sydney shell is the last fuel i'll use, also i find united Boost 98 octane with ethanol works very well..... cant wait to try united's new Premium 100 octane fuel with 10% ethanol.... also it depends on what your car is tuned for or what works best with the standard tune....

i have to dissagree with guilt toy, caltex isnt crap, shell is, shell is proven to burn slower and at a lower temperature than bp ultimate and vortex 98,,,,, unless newcastle gets older stocks of vortex 98 fuel and the octane level drops by the time they send it up there (and it is possible this happens).... otherwise here in sydney shell is the last fuel i'll use, also i find united Boost 98 octane with ethanol works very well..... cant wait to try united's new Premium 100 octane fuel with 10% ethanol.... also it depends on what your car is tuned for or what works best with the standard tune....

United is getting back Boost98???

Or is it better then boost98. I dont understand why they bring fuels out, phase them out and bring them back out again.

I understand that ethonal is good for servo owners (tax benefits) and the australian economy (sugar caine I think) and environment (lower emissions) but why bring it in and out.

I dont want to always be tuning my car from boost98 or vpower racing to bp98...but im a big fan of the ethonal based fuels.

ive seen first hand from a tuners point of view what happens when you put caltex 98 in your car. but i am talking engines with over 300kw at the wheels. Your normal stock bangers can go on any fuel 95 or 98... when your squeezing 380rwkw you notice things with different fuels.

I would not touch shell or caltex or anything else except for BP Ultimate or Mobil Synergy 8000

the rest is just crap. and yes i have tried it in sydney as well. its garbage

United is getting back Boost98???

Or is it better then boost98. I dont understand why they bring fuels out, phase them out and bring them back out again.

I understand that ethonal is good for servo owners (tax benefits) and the australian economy (sugar caine I think) and environment (lower emissions) but why bring it in and out.

I dont want to always be tuning my car from boost98 or vpower racing to bp98...but im a big fan of the ethonal based fuels.

boost 98 isnt going anywhre, there just adding the 100 octane version...... also they change fuels according to the market..... shell recons nobody was buying v power racing, i recon its because they only sold it at a hand full of servos in NSW and didnt tell the general public about it....

also guilt toy im going off what ive seen regarding fuel qualities in my own car, and around my area i dont have any bp or mobil servos, only shell and caltex,,, i will try mobile synergy next fill up..... anyway i recon vortex 98 is allot better than shell but i'll give the others a go aswell

boost 98 isnt going anywhre, there just adding the 100 octane version...... also they change fuels according to the market..... shell recons nobody was buying v power racing, i recon its because they only sold it at a hand full of servos in NSW and didnt tell the general public about it....

also guilt toy im going off what ive seen regarding fuel qualities in my own car, and around my area i dont have any bp or mobil servos, only shell and caltex,,, i will try mobile synergy next fill up..... anyway i recon vortex 98 is allot better than shell but i'll give the others a go aswell

Dude,

They took it (boost98) away from a few servos down were I am and I had to go to castle hill all the time to get the fuel as this was the only servo that had it in western sydney.

I even emailed the owner and he said that they were phasing it out?

Besides that its good news if there bringing it back out again at the servos near me, and better fuel then boost98, excellent...

I honestly think you guys are crazy to claim all these differences between the various 98 RON brands. I've used caltex 98, shell 98, mobil 98, BP 98 and they are all pretty much the same. the car doesn't run any better or worse on them. there must be something wrong with your car or tune or you had a stale or contaminated batch of fuel for you to notice any difference. and i have cars from 120awkw through to 350rwkw and a few in between and besides which most of the 98 RON fuels come from the same refinery just branded differently.

the V power Racing 100RON was great and I would have bought it all he time, but the lack of availability was a problem. when you only sell the stuff at half a dozen servos NSW wide it's always destined to be a failure. They should have rolled it out to many more servos and I'm sure it would have been a hit. bummer it's gone and now we no longer have 100RON pump fuel readily available.

I guess it depends where you are then.

example: 03 wrx completely stock. using say vortex to bp98 is a noticable difference say 1-2psi (bp98 been the better of the two). That model wrx is very sensitive to fuel and changes in performance modifications aswell. So there has to be something happening.

:D

Oh and ive used a different fuel for what my car was tuned to and it was pinging on this 98ron fuel??Has to be a difference.

I've had the same experience as richard. I use any 98 fuel and have for over 5 years now. Sometimes there is a bad batch from anywhere but they are all the same in the end.

which is probably because there are 4 or 5 brands of fuel but only 2 refineries in NSW. And one of them has been shut for like 12 months now.

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