Goobz Member 746 Member For: 20y 3m 27d Location: Sutherland Shire, Sydney Posted 05/03/06 12:22 AM Share Posted 05/03/06 12:22 AM http://www.unitedpetroleum.com.au/location...vid=2&state=NSW<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks!Boost 98.I rang Peter Rogers the sales guy for NSW/ACTRolling out in Sydney as we speak.3 sites have it: Roselands, Berkshire Park, St Marys.(ACT also just beggining rollout but still have Suttons & Fyshwick on line and some other suburb that sounded like Michelangelo.)<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Just to get back on topic for a second (sorry!) My mate has told me the independant servo on the western(I think...) side of the train line at sutherland also sells the Boost 98...Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENVY-T CNUTOX Donating Members 3,098 Member For: 22y 1m 2d Gender: Male Location: Not sure? Posted 05/03/06 12:42 AM Share Posted 05/03/06 12:42 AM So don't believe the trumped up wifes tales of engines being gummed up as a direct result of the ethanol fuel. You'll probably find that those engines would have seized even earlier had they run on the same crap fuel, but without the ethanol in it.So explain how a car that has run perfectly on fuel sourced from one service station, changes to ethanol and gets issues? I spose it was just conicidence. I think there are too many trumped up wifes tales for it to be a suburban myth. But then again, you are the Non smoking, non smelly engineering genius are you not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrturb god bless my kids Member 611 Member For: 20y 9m 14d Gender: Male Location: claremont meadows, sydney Posted 05/03/06 01:09 AM Share Posted 05/03/06 01:09 AM well tell me how my car ran sh*t untill I used boost 98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumpen Poison Fish. Poison Fish. TASTY FISH!!! Donating Members 5,181 Member For: 21y 10m 23d Gender: Male Location: The Bogan Shire Posted 05/03/06 02:20 AM Share Posted 05/03/06 02:20 AM Just whacked some Boost 98 in the Sprint (tuned for Nth NSW Ultimate) will have to see how it goes. Too wet yesterday to have a big hit out.However, at 115.9/l vs 129.9/l for Ultimate, there may be some merit in it.Pity the closest is grafton (130km round trip, which kind of defeats the purpose!)Lumpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBOSS Faster than any BTA,XTC,Autotech, Nizpro and Tunehouse car Member 3,918 Member For: 21y 7m 16d Location: D SHIRE! Posted 06/03/06 04:43 AM Share Posted 06/03/06 04:43 AM http://www.unitedpetroleum.com.au/location...vid=2&state=NSW<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks!Boost 98.I rang Peter Rogers the sales guy for NSW/ACTRolling out in Sydney as we speak.3 sites have it: Roselands, Berkshire Park, St Marys.(ACT also just beggining rollout but still have Suttons & Fyshwick on line and some other suburb that sounded like Michelangelo.)<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Just to get back on topic for a second (sorry!) My mate has told me the independant servo on the western(I think...) side of the train line at sutherland also sells the Boost 98...Chris <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Spot on Chris its on the western side of the station,I've been using it this week and have been using 100 extreme before this tank and it seems to go just aswell as the 100 but its only about 3 cents dearer than normal ULP yet extreme is 17 cents per litre dearer than ULP So its boost 98 for me and its in the Shire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slymeat Team Kickass Donating Members 1,926 Member For: 21y 11d Gender: Male Location: Albion Park, NSW Posted 06/03/06 04:49 AM Share Posted 06/03/06 04:49 AM undefinedDo you have an abridged version of the rest of your post. I've had a long weekAlcohol is good... be it in a car or in the person... only problem is that it attracts water... Nice Jack No wonder I suffer from water retention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loopism Tractor Driver Member 709 Member For: 18y 11m 29d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 06/03/06 06:57 AM Share Posted 06/03/06 06:57 AM (edited) < snip lots>What is my point? Fuels which contain alcohol that have a calculated rating of 98 infact have a real world resistance to combustion similar to a fuel that has a rating of 100.... So fuels mixed with alcohol will, in almost all cases, perform like fuel of a higher grade...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is why fuels are quoted as 98RON - Research Octane Number.Once upon a time, fuels were tested with a specialised piston engine (maybe they still are, but it's not done like this at the refinery I used to work in nowadays). The beast that I'm most familiar with was a single cylinder donk with a head that could be raised or lowered with a vernier screw to vary the compression ratio. The fuel was tested and the compression ratio checked against a bunch of charts and the answer was the MON - Motor Octane Number - of the fuel.See this wikipedia entry for more info. Edited 06/03/06 06:59 AM by loopism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawsy Wanabe mechanical engineer Donating Members 960 Member For: 20y 4m 21d Gender: Male Location: At the computer, obviously..... Posted 06/03/06 01:28 PM Share Posted 06/03/06 01:28 PM < snip lots>What is my point? Fuels which contain alcohol that have a calculated rating of 98 infact have a real world resistance to combustion similar to a fuel that has a rating of 100.... So fuels mixed with alcohol will, in almost all cases, perform like fuel of a higher grade...This is why fuels are quoted as 98RON - Research Octane Number.Once upon a time, fuels were tested with a specialised piston engine (maybe they still are, but it's not done like this at the refinery I used to work in nowadays). The beast that I'm most familiar with was a single cylinder donk with a head that could be raised or lowered with a vernier screw to vary the compression ratio. The fuel was tested and the compression ratio checked against a bunch of charts and the answer was the MON - Motor Octane Number - of the fuel.See this wikipedia entry for more info.This is the sort of constructive, non personal post that I was looking for.Well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TURBO4LT Member 1,533 Member For: 21y 5m 21d Gender: Male Location: NSW Posted 06/03/06 07:37 PM Share Posted 06/03/06 07:37 PM Since they started selling it in Wollongong Ive used 2 tank fulls in mine so far and the car feels better that it did on optimax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loopism Tractor Driver Member 709 Member For: 18y 11m 29d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 07/03/06 11:21 PM Share Posted 07/03/06 11:21 PM This is the sort of constructive, non personal post that I was looking for.Well done <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Awwwww ... shucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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