Nate, he was beating on the car. If you're going to "hoon" use premium. For easy local or highway driving 87 is fine. I use 93 because I want to not because I have to.
Lol.. so your saying nobody running 87 does some hooning? Come on now. He wasn't beating on it either, just screwing around. High load, lowish rpm is the king daddy of knock zone.
I did not mean to imply that. Even a few WOT’s on 87 can damage the engine especially under the conditions you mention. So if you are going to drive your car that way be smart and do not use 87. 87 is safe to use under the right conditions. Know your car and know how you drive. Simple.
100% buddy. But not to many know what 'safe' is haha.
On the 18+ cars it is not as much as is was with the 15-17 cars were. Most recommend going to E85 if you have it available. That's a kick in the pants.
My H-pipe & drop in K&N drop in was a bona fide .15-.20 seconds quicker. Ford uses adaptive logic, basically the widebands learn what fuel you're running. More octane, more power. That's for GAS ONLY with blends up to E15. Plus remember, FORD says 91 premium for rated horsepower. So mine was rated at 435hp with / 91 octane. I run 93, adaptive logic learns, now I'm making more than the rated 435 hp.
Mustave hooned hard! Also how long was he running 87 in the mf’erI wouldn't. Here's a result of running 87 octane while hooning on the street. Warmer ambient temps, higher IAT's, this is usually the end result on 'but it can run on 87' engines. Broke from knock, melted from higher combustion temp 87. We took his engine apart cause of oil fouling 2 plugs. He didn't here a damn thing, and no indication other then the fouling.
All spring (coolish temps). Didn't hoon hard, I think he only did one WOT run for a few seconds. That's all it took.
For me the difference between 87 and 94 is $23 a month. And that I don't understand. You spend all kinds of money on the car, then cheap out over what? $20-$30 difference a month? I mean, are they working part time at some fast food joint making barely enough for payments? If that's the case, you shoulda bought a $16K toyota with $150 monthly payments.
I go out to hoon too for sanity sake. The cats smelling is pretty common mine does that when I hit 7k or so and I only use premium. I asked about it and the dealer mentioned there is a lot of sulfur in fuels now but no other car I've owned smells weird when hooned so who knows.......
