Re: Octane ratings (was K-star (was Hot MKI article))

[Emile Draper <bybygti@yahoo.com>]

European Car had an article a few months ago about the
difference in octane ratings between the U.S. and
Europe.  I'll see if I can dig it up when I get home. 

Its all the same gas as I remember the numbers just
look different.

Yup better go back to Chevron.  Esp with a turbo.

-Emile
'80 'rocco

--- Bradley Peet <btpeet@effervescent.com> wrote:
> On the subject of fuel and octane, does anyone know
> the formulas for the
> octane rating used in the U.K. (and other European
> countries) as opposed to
> the octane ratings we see at the pumps here in the
> U.S.?  There are terms
> like "research octane" and "anti-knock index" and
> so-forth that would be
> nice to have the definitions of.
> 
> I'm pretty sure when someone from the U.K. says they
> are running 98 octane
> petrol, it is NOT equivalent to 98 octane on our
> scale.  (It's a lower
> number on our scale.)
> 
> On a side note, I'm not filling up at Texaco again. 
> After doing so in
> Portland (on the way back up to Seattle), I noticed
> some knock every so
> often when I stepped on the throttle.  Just a couple
> knocks/pings before the
> Motronic detected it and retarded the timing, but my
> point is that I've
> never heard the car do that before (even with the
> turbo).  Back to Chevron I
> go.
> 
> Bradley
> '86 Scirocco 16V 2.0 "T"
> http://effervescent.com/vw/
> 
> 


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