f6mark Member 2,909 Member For: 15y 7m 13d Gender: Male Posted 26/09/12 08:33 AM Posted 26/09/12 08:33 AM only BP98 for my baby.
AirStrike Legacy Donating Member 387 Member For: 17y 10m 6d Gender: Male Posted 26/09/12 09:00 AM Posted 26/09/12 09:00 AM After seeing the crap that came out of my fuel filter last time after only using caltex, I will never touch it again. Only use BP now, not probs. 2
xr6t_ute Legacy Donating Member 2,281 Member For: 19y 3m 2d Gender: Male Location: south east suburbs Posted 26/09/12 09:03 AM Posted 26/09/12 09:03 AM Safeway ftw!!
LC99 New Member 6 Member For: 14y 5m 13d Gender: Male Location: Canberra Posted 26/09/12 10:36 AM Posted 26/09/12 10:36 AM What do the tuners recommend using?
bionicxr6t05 Legacy Donating Member 2,216 Member For: 15y 2m Gender: Male Posted 26/09/12 10:41 AM Posted 26/09/12 10:41 AM Shell v power for me, bp ultimate is also good but shell is closer. Had sooo many cars with bad caltex fuel (fleet vehicles and private customers) I wouldnt put it in my lawnmower
robaneta Member 54 Member For: 14y 8m 21d Posted 26/09/12 10:42 AM Posted 26/09/12 10:42 AM Vpower works best for me my FG turbs loves it !!! Noticed more punch when trottled over bp 1
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Legacy Donating Member 13,798 Member For: 18y 10m 3d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 26/09/12 10:48 AM Posted 26/09/12 10:48 AM I've gone from BP98 only, to V Power only then amix and now back to BP98.I wish there was a small box you could carry that accepted say 100ml of fuel and gave you a stats readout on it for the things that matter like RON and additives etc. I've been chasing a bad idle for a while (tried new plugs/coils, clean TB) and today filling up from 3/4 to full with BP98 gave me rough idle directly after filling. Could be crap in the tank being stirred up was another thought.
jimmixr Legacy Donating Member 686 Member For: 16y 1m 9d Posted 27/09/12 07:34 AM Posted 27/09/12 07:34 AM Have dealings with a fuel guru/ lubricant engineer through work.... He basically told me they achieve the octane rating in two different ways.Some fuels achieve their required octane rating using additives. Base fuel with the extras addedOther fuels achieve their octaine rating through refinementUsing Shell V power and BP ultimate as an example..Shell uses additives.. BP refines.Having used both fuels in many cars over the years.. what I noted personally that when I pulled a plug from a vehicle running V power, the plug always had a powdwery residue. BP was always a "cleaner" plugHe only uses BP ultimate 4
FG50T Member 568 Member For: 22y 7m 14d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 27/09/12 10:08 AM Posted 27/09/12 10:08 AM This might sound silly but could some servo's "water down" their fuel?
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Legacy Donating Member 11,198 Member For: 15y 1m 27d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 27/09/12 10:23 AM Posted 27/09/12 10:23 AM Only if they wanted to get crucified on Today-tonight..I've heard of quality varying from servo to servo but considering most of it comes from the same refineries the only quality difference is the storage tanks of each individual servo.
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