What brand of gas does everyone use?

[BadKenny]

Hi all, still a turbo n00b (I've only had my car since last August), and I was wondering what everyone is using in terms of gas here? Given that our choices are somewhat limited in Calgary (the only place with octane higher than 91 is Mohawk's gasahol), what seems to give you the best results? Also what is the general opinion of mohawk gas? On Audiworld, people have found a significant reduction in gas mileage (as in worse) from using oxygenated fuels (i.e. ethanol/alcohol blended gas, mtbe additives, etc.).

PS. For the most part I use Shell simply because it is the lowest sulfur fuel available (which is supposed to be cleaner burning) but....on the other hand I've heard that at least in diesel engines, low sulfur fuel can be bad...???

[R_Ethug]

Re: What brand of gas does everyone use?

when i feel spiffy i'll switch my APR to 93 mode and run mohawk 94.. if i can't get the 94 then I fill up with petro can 91 since i have a points card and have a zillion points now.. as for mileage my 1.8t gets over 520 everytank.. last tank of 94 i got 630 before i had to fill up.. not too shabby

[Derick]

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I basically stick to Petro cuz I hold enough points to put me on the board of directors

[Smartiepants]

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I go with Shell, I don't know why, force of habit I guess?

[Simon]

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when in town i like to hit up the 94, it makes me feel good even though its a placebo.

but otherwise its usually petro bbecause ive had points since i was 16

[BadKenny]

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Thanks for the responses! I'd go for the mohawk 94 but I've had bad experiences with mohawk gas personally (POS 86 Toyota Tercel wagon that hated the stuff and would die periodically to punish me for driving it)...that and I live up the 'hood so its quite a ways down there...given current gas prices!! I was reading through the mohawk 94 thread from like a year ago, and no one really said whether or not there was *really* a difference with the regular 91 octane UP chip using 94 gas...??

[R_Ethug]

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damn derick.. simon we should put our points together and get us some.............snow tires lol

edit my 93 program with proper gas gives me approx 8 more HP and 10TQ

[Aleks]

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I used Safeway forever, just started going to Esso, and husky, and mohawk, cause everyone has gas discounts, except petrocan of course...I haven't noticed a single change in anything with the gas....I get 27-29 MPG regardless how I drive (up to 12km/l), I've been tracking it in my palm pilot...equates 570-600km/tank...I don't fill up with high stuff cause I don't drive my car terribly hard, usually 89octane....

[Khyron]

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Husky 94, might switch back to Safeway 91 - dunno. When I was in BC I always got the Chevron 94.

Khyron

[Derick]

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Sorry to jack this thread slightly, just curious how many points do you Petro guys have?? I filled up a couple days ago and my balance is 115,000. According to the petro points book I think I can trade those in for enough airmiles or a voucher to actually fly somwhere

[Khyron]

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Hrm I just traded in my Sears points which is 1-20 for petro points. So 300,000 petro points = 600 bucks worth of gift certificates at Sears if money is your thing.

To give you a comparison, you could redeem 85,000 points for a 50 dollar gift card. There is huge increase in payout near the upper scale.

Khyron

[NeonGTI]

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I drove out to Penticton over the weekend and scored 14.5 km/l while taking it fairly easy (cruise at 120-ish, a couple stomps to 160-180).

The weekend before had me going down to Lethbridge where mileage was not as good due to seeing the blurry side of 240.

[R_Ethug]

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derick umm from my last fill up i'm at 148,000 now something like that

[1.8Trip]

Re: What brand of gas does everyone use?

Hi all, still a turbo n00b (I've only had my car since last August), and I was wondering what everyone is using in terms of gas here? Given that our choices are somewhat limited in Calgary (the only place with octane higher than 91 is Mohawk's gasahol), what seems to give you the best results? Also what is the general opinion of mohawk gas? On Audiworld, people have found a significant reduction in gas mileage (as in worse) from using oxygenated fuels (i.e. ethanol/alcohol blended gas, mtbe additives, etc.).

PS. For the most part I use Shell simply because it is the lowest sulfur fuel available (which is supposed to be cleaner burning) but....on the other hand I've heard that at least in diesel engines, low sulfur fuel can be bad...???

I haven't really noticed too much of a difference in gas mileage from ethanol blended to the other. However, I do remember reading somewhere that alcohol blends have lower energy per unit volume than regular gasoline. The obvious trade off is greater knock resistance.

[nephilim]

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i find putting the cheapest fuel in my car works best so I have been throwing a few tanks of diesel through my car. So far no problems but i keep having to fill up after 1100 kms or so!!

What up with that sh*t