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At the refinery where I work we make base oil and this is one of the tests that we run. If you have a standard that’s supposed to be 4000 you could be several hundred on either side of that and it’s essentially the same number. Not a big deal.

Yes. It burns very hot as well. AVGAS has a lot of lead in it.

I’m if you want to still have at least 87 octane after you drop the ethanol out you better buy premium. Regular is only 83 or so octane before adding ethanol.

I’m a head lab tech for a major oil company. We add antioxidants to gasoline so ours should store easy for one year of more as long as the container is sealed. We test every gasoline final tank for this. By artificially aging the fuel. No need to add any 3rd party additives. Marine gasoline is...

We bought a 2020 Toyota Highlander brand new from a large dealer. They offer a lifetime power train warranty. But to get that warranty I can’t to any maintenance to it myself. So I take it to one of two other dealers near me to get it serviced. So far both have done a good job. But I’d prefer to...

My 18 F150 5.0 recommends 91. It will run on 87 and I’ve done it before I read the manual but it runs like a different truck on 93. No 91 here.

if your vehicle doesn’t require higher octane fuel then you don’t get any gains from it. If you’re having to run a higher octane fuel in a vehicle that doesn’t require it then your vehicle must be running hot or the combustion chamber has a lot of carbon buildup.

As a head lab tech for chevron who spent 5 years doing nothing but octane testing this is completely false as far as being oily. Gasoline with higher octane ratings comes from different components in the refining process. Typically gasoline that has more alkylates and reformate are higher octane.

If you have any Texaco stations they’ll have Techron.

We have the concentrated version at the chevron refinery where I work. It’s added to the trucks if they are headed to a chevron branded gas station and we keep some here in the lab for use in our octane testing engines. You can’t buy it publicly. We add about 1-1.5mls per gallon of Techron to...

All grades of chevron gas has about 1-1.5mls of Techron per gallon if I remember correctly.

As a head lab tech for chevron that has seen what Techron can do in octane testing engines it does do what it says it does.