VP Octanium Unleaded Octane Booster
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VP Octanium Unleaded Octane Booster
Has anyone ever used VP Octanium Octane Booster? Given I'm in Ontario, canada i cannot get ethanol to be able to move up to map 4 on my jb4. I've been stuck running 12.2's and would like to break into the 11's. Given its just a couple tenths im so close that a map change and some fuel additives help should in theory help me get there. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with it.
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definately an option just figured for 30 bucks a can worth a try. Closest place for race gas for me would be the track and 1.5 hours away.
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Yes thought about that route too...so many mixed reviews on them though from sound to actually performance gains its tough to decide not mention the price tag..but i guess you gotta pay to play..lol
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Here's a link to a video where he compares Boostane to three separate racing fuels, on the Dyno. Spoiler, Boostane beat them all on the dyno. Jump to 8:45 to skip all the lead in.
Here's a link to when he first tried out Boostane and it includes dyno results as well.
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Had to add one more thing. If all that someone does is add an octane booster, they won't improve performance, unless their car was already retarding timing to fight detonation. The extra octane allows a person to add more boost without detonation, thereby giving the added horsepower. I know you probably realize that, I just wanted to make sure everyone who reads the thread does as well.
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Actually, there have been quite a few tests of octane boosters, with successful results. You can't buy the trash ones that you find at your local parts store, those are definitely not going to get it done. Boostane is a good octane booster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjaxJXek1xQ
Here's a link to when he first tried out Boostane and it includes dyno results as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbibjvIjmvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjaxJXek1xQ
Here's a link to when he first tried out Boostane and it includes dyno results as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbibjvIjmvo
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"Too high" wouldn't make you go slower, but I think that Burger says that on map 3, you can run 93. A little more octane won't hurt you. The octane rating of fuel shows resistance to combustion. You'll hear older or inexperienced people say that they ran a higher octane pump gas to "Clean everything out". No such thing happened. The compression ratio of a motor determines if it needs a higher octane. NA motors can certainly require premium, but most don't. Forced induction motors should always have higher octane. 87 octane, for instance, wants to detonate earlier, so if you put that in a low compression motor, say 8:1, then it will be perfectly happy. If you put it in an 11:1 motor, you'll start having issues, unless the computer is capable of pulling a lot of timing. Either way, you get crap performance. Every motor's size is how much the swept area of the cylinder is, (The stroke), times the diameter, (The bore). The compression ratio is how much that much air and fuel is compressed at the top of the piston's travel. Compression creates heat. Heat creates detonation, sometimes before the spark is ready. If you detonate the air/fuel load early, the piston is still moving upward, while the explosion is trying to force it down. That is what breaks motors. Turbocharging a motor creates even more compression. That's why you have to run fuel that doesn't want to detonate easily. It's also why, your motor is lower compression, and managed by a computer, to do things that motors 50 years ago couldn't do. You can't run "too much" octane, but you can waste a lot of money running a higher level of octane than your motor requires. Always better to be higher vs. lower.
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"Too high" wouldn't make you go slower, but I think that Burger says that on map 3, you can run 93. A little more octane won't hurt you. The octane rating of fuel shows resistance to combustion. . You can't run "too much" octane, but you can waste a lot of money running a higher level of octane than your motor requires. Always better to be higher vs. lower.
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yes, But like said in the video the Demon was tuned with a 100 octane. So getting the fuel mixture closest to 100 with make the most power. So for my case with the jb4 map 3 requiring 93, I would have made optimal power with fuel mixture close to 93 rather than around 98-100 which I had in my tank, correct?
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yes, But like said in the video the Demon was tuned with a 100 octane. So getting the fuel mixture closest to 100 with make the most power. So for my case with the jb4 map 3 requiring 93, I would have made optimal power with fuel mixture close to 93 rather than around 98-100 which I had in my tank, correct?
Good luck! Many have run 91/93 + 2-4 gals of E85 and have had good results. If you do not have E85 available, Water Meth Injection would potentially be the best bet down the road for you.
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As mentioned map 3 is set for 93 octane fuel...if you choose to go above that, it is your choice. You may not see benefits from the increase in octane unless you were having detonation issues that was pulling timing while running Map 3 with the 93 octane fuel. Now if you were having detonation and timing was being pulled, adding additional octane may help reduce or remove that and thus receive a bump in power.
Good luck! Many have run 91/93 + 2-4 gals of E85 and have had good results. If you do not have E85 available, Water Meth Injection would potentially be the best bet down the road for you.
Good luck! Many have run 91/93 + 2-4 gals of E85 and have had good results. If you do not have E85 available, Water Meth Injection would potentially be the best bet down the road for you.
