Nissan 200SX Club - South Africa

Which octaine boosters are recommended for use on/in a CA18 engine...

There are so many different types and makes on the market and dont exactly wanna be throwing any kind of rubbish in the tank...

water/meth hiehiehieeeeee hie....

your 102 gas plus your what ever octane booster may be equals plus minus 108.

Mine 120. hiehiehiee... :

Chem

That's all fair and well for when doing a couple of laps on the track and stuff, but what about when I'm crusing around on the weekend... seeing that my sx is my weekend special...

We drive on it everyday....remember a octane booster will not autamatically increase power....it must be tuned for that.

Octane boosters only controls your explosion better sothat you can tune it harder before it detonates...

seeing that my sx is my weekend special...

Great, I wish I could say that. But back to octane. We dont use switches and alike for w/m. It is always there.

Chem

and you can drink it - you dont even need a loaf of bread, the purple is already gone!

widowmaker wrote:and you can drink it - you dont even need a loaf of bread, the purple is already gone!

um thats methanol not methylated spirits

what brands of booster are you guys using and where do you get from?
anyone know anything about NF?

ya its true about them not increasing power.

i've seen video about an octane booster test, or it could've a magazine article, and none of the octane boosters helped to increase power at all.

in fact - at least half of them decreased power in the cars.

i wouldn't use them.

rather have your car tuned for the local fuels, and then go with that! its far easier when you just fill up and go!

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Chem

i beg to differ. there is a certain drift car that runs on race fuel with octane booster should afgas not be on hand...just wondering if you guys had a specific brand that you swore by...guess not

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sully wrote:i beg to differ. there is a certain drift car that runs on race fuel with octane booster should afgas not be on hand...just wondering if you guys had a specific brand that you swore by...guess not

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you can beg as much as you want, but this article that i read/watched had most of the very well known brands in the testing.

not one of the cars made more power, and some made less! but nothing else was done to the cars, other than adding the octane booster to the fuel. the fuel system was flushed between each brand of octane booster tested too!

From a technical point of view, the ECU constantly adjusts timing specifically to take octane changes into account. This is a slow process though. It advances timing, sees detonation, then retards it. Then it advances it again in a much smaller increment, and so on. So it would take a while before it utilised the potential of higher octane fuel. A good test would be to completely reset the ECU after adding the booster. This is not trivial, however, since some capacitors keep the ecu memory alive (or it uses eeprom or something). To give you an idea, after having my ecu out of my car for 3 months, it still remembered it's tuning. Only when I dissassembled it and took out the rom, did it reset.