Thread: Octane Booster Fuel Additives - Opinions/Facts Needed!

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Yeah Eric, I read that deal on the VP site.... Doesn't really say what they're doing to it, got to be more then just dropping in a big shot of ethanol though, isn't it???? We've ran everything from 10% to 100% ethanol, blended it with everything from pump gas regular to VP race gas.... Trying to figure out what the heck they're adding that they give it the "oxygenated" name??

Where the heck are all our on site chemists, anyway???

Eric, what did you end up running in yours for the street?

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

.................got to be more then just dropping in a big shot of ethanol though, isn't it????

No, probably not. Without actual tech data can't say for sure, but ethanol is an oxygenate. So is NOS, and nitromethane, so was MTBE before being banned by EPA for fuel....................but the term oxygenate must resonate with some catagory or other of consumer. Could be a way of boosting or regaining sales lost to E85 to street driven muscle guys.

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Eric, what did you end up running in yours for the street?

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!!!!

Originally Posted by Hot Rod Surfer

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....