Highest grade of gas you've seen
06-15-2001, 09:24 PM
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I saw a fuel truck in Pittsburgh while on business in 1998 with 100 octane painted on it. I think it was a Sunoco. On the NJ turnpike I've only seen 94 octane at Sunoco.
06-15-2001, 10:38 PM
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This may be urban myth, but I had heard that Sunoco used to only make 100 octane and 80 octane. The trick is that you got your choice of many octanes between 86 and 95... all achieved by their fancy pump mixing the proper proportions of the two grades according to what you selected on the dial.
It has been some years since I have lived on the east coast, so I have no idea if they still have those pumps with the 5 or 6 grades offered.
If this is true however, it would be consistent with what you saw marked on the truck.
Dan
It has been some years since I have lived on the east coast, so I have no idea if they still have those pumps with the 5 or 6 grades offered.
If this is true however, it would be consistent with what you saw marked on the truck.
Dan
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06-15-2001, 11:00 PM
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Skarv, fuel mixing of low and high octanes is standard practice when it comes to consumer gasolines. According to my brother-in-law (who works for Tosco Refineries ie. Unocal76), they only produce two unleaded octanes 80 and 100 (just like sunoco). The octanes that we see in the gas stations are a mixture of the two.
06-16-2001, 01:32 AM
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We indeed do have 100 octane *unleaded* here in Orlando. Havent run it in my car yet...but i will soon. Our high compression engines should love that stuff.
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