fuel grades for different engines

[speedfrk]

lol who cares what anyone puts in a v6..

The V6 is a 20K car that is an excellent option if you don't want to buy a typical economy car. The EB is too. The question was simple. Are there dyno results showing a significant difference between fuel grades like there is with an EB. The question is legitimate since someone may be trying to decide between a V6 and a EB. If the V6 makes advertised power using 87 but the EB needs 93 to make advertised power, you could make the case for buying the V6 as a DD just on gas cost. There are a lot of cars that are designed to run on 87 and using higher octane does nothing. Here in ATL, 93 is at least .50/gal more than 87 so using 93 is a decent cost hike if the car is a DD. As usual, no one answered the question, just spouted off their personal opinions on fuel- most of which are wrong.

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[RubyRed15GT]

I owned a 2012 V6 it's was a really great daily driver on 87 octane. You will not get any more performance out of the V6 running octanes greater than 87 unless you have it tuned for it.

 

[dotJake]

I had a quarter of tank gas sitting in 80F heat for 2-3 weeks. It slowly degraded to a lower octane gas

What did the octane degrade to?

 

[S550ilver]

What did the octane degrade to?

PANDA WATCH!!!!!

 

[dotJake]

PANDA WATCH!!!!!

Exactly...

 

[PRG3k]

Buy an Ecoboost, get an aux fuel kit for under a grand, run E85, gain an extra 100 horsepower. Blow the doors off of shit with fuel cheaper than 87 octane. Problem solved.

 

[WhiteyDog]

Come on up to the airport, I'll get ya some 100LL or 130LL octane avgas that we put in the helicopters. (Better take out the cats first, I don't think that stuff would be good for them).

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