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Originally posted by rook
Toluene, damn, let me dust off my organic chem textbook! Seems to be a pretty inexpensive way (versus traditional octane boosters) to increase the octane rating. Given its higher octane rating, there has to be a trade off like slow throttle response or possibly unburned fuel. This certainly warrants a closer look.
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From my personel experience I got nothing but positive result's in both dept's. I found out about Toluene from a friend of mine who own's a performance shop. He build's 3sgte race engine's for racing team's, has past Touring car and F1 experience. This guy is a WALKING TEXTBOOK of information and he can describe it in lamen's term's or in engineering term's.
Anyway at only $12/gal it put's to SHAME the "over the counter" octane booster's sold to the unknowing public. One gallon added to my 12gal tank of 93 octane, '92 MR2T with fully built race engine and T66 turbo, boosted the octane rating to somewhere between 95-97oct and at time's I would add 2 gallon's for a 100+ octane rating. The car ran like a scalded cat and never had the slightest ping or hesitation at 15-20psi.
It's a HECK of alot cheaper than the $5-$7/gallon price of race gas, basically you will have a FULL tank of race gas for the minimum investment of $24!!
