Originally Posted By: ARCOgraphite
My current "magic potion" for the picky Nissan is about 3 to 3-1/2 gallons of Sunoco 93 on top of 8-9 gal of EXxon 87. This keeps the ECU from pulling power and I get all those 170 HP for High speed highway merging shenanigans.
The southbound slow lane on I-93 at Exit 3 in NH is moving 75-80 MPH (65 posted) and the morons getting on the highway here are going 45. I get on here to go South to exit 2. Luckily, there is a two-lane onramp, so I often take the (unnoccupied) right lane and gun it 90MPH merging.
That way I can SLOW DOWN to travel speed rather than trying to speed up. And I don't cause interstate backups at exits like the typical nitwits EVERYWHERE.
rant over
PS: SHELL around here has ALWAYS been horrendous gas since the 80's and still is except for one station in Derry; I Don't know why their fuel is OK.
Ugh...Exit 3 on 93 in NH is 111...very occasionally, I will commute to work in MA from our ski place in NH and that exit used to be the absolute pits. Southbound traffic would back up there no matter what, even when it was rolling in MA. The recent widening seems to have helped, although I may have only gone that way once since the new lane actually came into operation.
BTW, the main reason I stop for gas a lot in Concord is that 93 octane is hard to find once you get farther North. I can get 93 in Campton if I want to pay out the nose for it, and it is a useful desperation stop...Ashland and Plymouth are basically 91 except for one Tedeschi I am aware of. Don't know about Tilton because I never want to stop in that traffic nightmare...
