Quote Originally Posted by Hot Rod Surfer View Post
Now I'm down to 89 octane from my friendly Gate dealer, not so sure that I could use the Chevron 89 though...

Whatever, at least I'm not sneaking down to Oviedo to buy cases of snake oil

But after reading the vp racing stuff ("oxygenated with ethanol"?? isn't that what I get at the pump with up to 10% ethanol?)and noticing the difference between suppliers, it sounds like it is all snake oil!!!!
I don't believe the 10% does enough to help anything--no science behind this other then drag race and street time, but it seems to me that the "oxygenated" benefits of ethanol blended with gas didn't do much good performance wise til we hit about the 30% to 35% level. We used to blend off the E-10 you get at the pump, but now that we can buy E-85 around here we've been blending with that up to 100% ethanol, and that takes some substantial carb mods.... Got to go find me some of that VP stuff and take it up to my buddies at the college and have them test it.... Meanwhile, guess we'll just keep stumbling along....