Premium fuel?

[outdoorphotog]

I mix 93 octane and diesel. It really runs great! Some of you should try it! ???

I’m GoNnA tRy ThIs... cHeCk EnGiNe LiGhT jUsT mEaNs To ChECk HoW gReAt ThE eNgInE wOrKs NoW rIgHt???

Sponsored

 

[Texas Scout]

I’m going to bow out Of this thread for good now.

Promises, promises! Please, I was walking down the hall looking for the debate thread and opened the argument thread by mistake, however, the mistake was not mine...
Dude, just chill and go start your own thread on your topic!
You will feel better! I know I will knowing you are in a better place

 

[Texas Scout]

Okay . . . I'm good now . . . carry on . . .

.

Hope you have a reliable vehicle using the correct fuel as stated by your owner's manual to transport ALL of that popcorn to a different thread.

 

[Floyd]

Okay . . . I'm good now . . . carry on . . .

.

Okay . . . I'm good now . . . carry on . . .

.

Man, I sure hope for your sake that you look more like your avatar than that creepy guy eating the popcorn!
I love the stuff , but that image will put me off popcorn for some time!

 

[FoD]

I’m GoNnA tRy ThIs... cHeCk EnGiNe LiGhT jUsT mEaNs To ChECk HoW gReAt ThE eNgInE wOrKs NoW rIgHt???

Have you tried BBQ Lighter Fuel mixed with regular and mid level - definite boost!

 

[dtech]

Lol cant complain about that cop.

Also remember that here in Colorado regular is 85 and that is a big no no for our trucks. Is see people run that in thier vehicles around and I think it is stupid. If I remember correctly I read somewhere that said itnis for the older carburated vehicles for the high elevation. With that said I wouldn't bother with regular gas in Colorado and stick with mid grade or higher.

Well I stayed at a friends place in Del Norte - he has a Buick with the blown 3.8l - I might add a newer Buick because he ran 85 octane in his former blown Buick and got a nice hole in a piston. Now he told me he bought a new truck, but his wife shows me the GM commercial where he bought the 2 new GMs - envoy and silverado, and she loves the pickup, , so the new truck in the garage is a Ford Platinum F series with the 6.2 liter twin turbo powerstroke - 980 lbs/ft of torque.
He was kind and told me he liked my Ranger. 980 lbs of torque - OMG.
On the Hyundai board some guy in denver posted the dealer told him 85 octane will work just fine in his 2.0T , not a question of if but when that the engine gives it up, the Hyundai Theta II engine is about as fragile as it gets when it comes to durability, they've replaced well over 250k of them.

 

[Frenchy]

Well I stayed at a friends place in Del Norte - he has a Buick with the blown 3.8l - I might add a newer Buick because he ran 85 octane in his former blown Buick and got a nice hole in a piston. Now he told me he bought a new truck, but his wife shows me the GM commercial where he bought the 2 new GMs - envoy and silverado, and she loves the pickup, , so the new truck in the garage is a Ford Platinum F series with the 6.2 liter twin turbo powerstroke - 980 lbs/ft of torque.
He was kind and told me he liked my Ranger. 980 lbs of torque - OMG.
On the Hyundai board some guy in denver posted the dealer told him 85 octane will work just fine in his 2.0T , not a question of if but when that the engine gives it up, the Hyundai Theta II engine is about as fragile as it gets when it comes to durability, they've replaced well over 250k of them.

Lol I think you meant 6.7 Powerstroke, and its a single turbo. And I ama not suprized people in the state of Colorado are a bit uneducated about the fuels.

 

[Tiny]

anyone---our electronics should handle it fine and she'll run as smooth as glass and get approx 75-100mpg. However stay away from ? it may launch you into space making you circle the earth endlessly looking for a reason why this happened or just blow the engine up. Be advised I am sure there are varying opinions on this and feedback is possible.?

 

[jsphlynch]

anyone---our electronics should handle it fine and she'll run as smooth as glass and get approx 75-100mpg. However stay away from ? it may launch you into space making you circle the earth endlessly looking for a reason why this happened or just blow the engine up. Be advised I am sure there are varying opinions on this and feedback is possible.?

Actual images of car that gave RP1 a try:

 

[geophb]

Fords flex fuel vehicles do NOT have a flex fuel sensor. They operate on fuel trims and have a switch over point. Once you hit a certain trim value with the required counts it switches over to the e85 stoich values. Which is why in the owners manual for the flex fuel vehicle it says to switch fuels once your tank is below half or more. Because it is not true "flex fuel", its more like 2 modes/calibrations it switches between.

1) Putting e85 in your non flex fuel ecoboost will not instantly blow it up. What will happen is it will peg the fuel trims to +25% or more and will eventually throw an over-threshold code.

2) ALL Ecoboost and 5.0 coyote are equipped with a wideband sensor from factory and are able to read lamda values from about .7-1.3 ( Afr 10:1-20:1 or e85 afr 6.9:1-12.8:1) and run partial closed loop at WOT. Which is why they can compensate for incorrectly putting e85 in a non factory flex car, which you should not be doing. Older efi systems with a narrow band 02 cannot adjust and will run like complete garbage with e85 unless tuned for it.

3) Fords ecu does NOT have extra timing tables for the flex fuel. What it has is a learned octane adjust ratio that is essentially spark trims. So running e85 in your FACTORY flex vehicle, the ecu will slowly add back in the timing it trimmed out for the 87 that was previously run. It would do the exact same thing if you dumped in a tank of ms109.

4) Mixing 5 gallons of e85 to 13 gal of 87 would give you about 90-91 octane and the ethanol would be about 30%. I have run e30 in a non flexfuel focus with a factory wideband, for science, and the fuel trims were about 10-12%. There is no point when e0-e10 91 is one handle over.

 

[Dunedain Ranger]

I've run Shell 93 in my Ranger since the free tank from the dealer got used up - love the better performance and mpg and it helps keep the engine clean.

 

[Doc]

I've run Shell 93 in my Ranger since the free tank from the dealer got used up - love the better performance and mpg and it helps keep the engine clean.

Me Too ..
Regards

 

[Floyd]

Well I stayed at a friends place in Del Norte - he has a Buick with the blown 3.8l - I might add a newer Buick because he ran 85 octane in his former blown Buick and got a nice hole in a piston. Now he told me he bought a new truck, but his wife shows me the GM commercial where he bought the 2 new GMs - envoy and silverado, and she loves the pickup, , so the new truck in the garage is a Ford Platinum F series with the 6.2 liter twin turbo powerstroke - 980 lbs/ft of torque.
He was kind and told me he liked my Ranger. 980 lbs of torque - OMG.
On the Hyundai board some guy in denver posted the dealer told him 85 octane will work just fine in his 2.0T , not a question of if but when that the engine gives it up, the Hyundai Theta II engine is about as fragile as it gets when it comes to durability, they've replaced well over 250k of them.

The problem is the altitude, everybody in Denver is High!

 

[Richard Conley]

Been using 93 from the beginning. Odd what you can get where, in IA 20 miles from me, Sam's has 91 and 3/4 miles away is a Costco that has 93....at the same price which is usually about 20 cents/gal cheaper than where I am in IL.

 

[SymChris]

Ran my stock 2019 for over a year with 87 (Shell). Switched to 91 in the last 6 weeks or so ago (on 3rd tank now) and it does feel like I’m getting better performance.

Pretty sure mpg’s are getting better too, they are slowly going up in my mainly city miles.... of course they then get thrashed when I do a little sport mode here and there...

Sponsored