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Originally Posted by vtecmike1
why is it so many people feel they know more then the people that built the ****** car.
follow the manual dip **** know it alls
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It is amazing that people will spend 20K on a car then cheap out on gas.
If you guys really want to be cheap and run cheap gas. Get a spark plug that is one heat range colder. This will decrease the pinging. But also might require spark plugs to be changed out in 20-40k miles instead of the factory 100k.
I own a highly moddified Harley sport bike (buell). So I am fully aware of the effect of octane and timing. I can run pump gas if I dial back the timing (get less power). Or I can run octane boost and/or mix in alchol race gas and set the timing correctly and bingo POWER!
Most people in a cage (car) will never hear the engine pinging. AC compressor noise and radio will mute it out. But trust me riding on top of the engine up a steep hill with lower octane fuels makes for terrible noise.