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Old 11-24-2016, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RodKnock View Post
Remember pump gas is 91 octane and sucks in the Bay Area unless you can find a gas station that sells Sunoco gas. There's a nearby station on the Peninsula that sell Sunoco 100 octane unleaded from the pump and 110 octane leaded in 5 gallon containers from inside the garage. 10:1 may be too much here.
I can get Sunoco gas at the Andrade gas station, but that's not what I want. I want a motor that is happy slurping 91 octane from Chevron, Shell, etc. Perhaps I need to consider 9:1 compression ratio?
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