01-10-2011, 01:19 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Cheap premium gas
Today at Brentwood coop they have no regular so premium is going for regular pricing
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01-10-2011, 01:22 PM
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My face is a bum!
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Now we just wait for the people that normally use regular gas and get premium for the first time to tell us how much faster their cars felt and how much it improved their fuel economy despite that being physically impossible.
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01-10-2011, 02:02 PM
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Basement Chicken Choker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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I hear if you use premium you don't even need winter tires.
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01-10-2011, 02:04 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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wow i made it home in record time. i blew down crowchild doing 150 km. premium ftw!!!
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01-10-2011, 02:05 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Regular gas raped my mother, and sodomized my dad.
That's why I only use premium gas from now on.
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01-10-2011, 02:08 PM
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#6
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Franchise Player
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What is the point of premium?
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01-10-2011, 02:23 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
What is the point of premium?
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It's for higher compression engines, (2 strokes and high performance engines) it can be compressed more without detonation.
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01-10-2011, 02:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinner
It's for higher compression engines, (2 strokes and high performance engines) it can be compressed more without detonation.
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Well I don't want to blow my car up. Only premium for me from now on!
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01-10-2011, 02:44 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
What is the point of premium?
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Depends on your compression and what your ECU is set up for.
- - - Pinner already answered.
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01-10-2011, 04:03 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 51.04177 -114.19704
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Premium has a higher O2 concentration and therefore an increased resistance to pre-detonation (ignition). This is helpful for high compression / advanced timing engines that require it, but actually takes away power from a car that doesn't, as the combustion process is less likely to completely burn all the fuel.
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01-10-2011, 04:06 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary Satellite Community
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Just fill up at husky/mohawk, their regular is rated at 90 octane which is almost the same as premium 91 at other stations.
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01-10-2011, 04:07 PM
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Section 304
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All I know about premium is that the buttons are configured backwards (by my definition) at the Chevron in Revelstoke, BC, so if you're in idiot like me you'll fill up with premium at about $1.30. F'n premium.
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01-10-2011, 04:08 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 51.04177 -114.19704
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greyshep
Just fill up at husky/mohawk, their regular is rated at 90 octane which is almost the same as premium 91 at other stations.
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With a free 10% reduction in fuel economy due to the ethonol content in their gas. Ethonal has less energy per unit, thus it reduces fuel economy.
I use their 92 mid-grade in my Audi occasionally and notice a 5-8% reducion in fuel economy, which is mostly offset by the reduction in price.
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01-10-2011, 04:09 PM
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My face is a bum!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greyshep
Just fill up at husky/mohawk, their regular is rated at 90 octane which is almost the same as premium 91 at other stations.
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Which is a nice double hit to your fuel economy, too high of an octane for your engine designed for 87, and shyte ehtanol blended gas.
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01-10-2011, 04:09 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greyshep
Just fill up at husky/mohawk, their regular is rated at 90 octane which is almost the same as premium 91 at other stations.
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Yeah, but then you get that crappy ethanol blend.
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01-10-2011, 04:11 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Glastonbury
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I run premium exclusively and notice the difference in the city and on the highway with economy and power
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01-10-2011, 04:13 PM
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RealtorŪ
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Calgary
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I always thought that there are different ways to measure the octane in gas. In Europe isnt premium in the 100s. This led me to think that Husky's premium might be measured different than a shell premium. Stupid thought I know but swear I read this somewhere.
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01-10-2011, 04:16 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 51.04177 -114.19704
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Realtor 1
I always thought that there are different ways to measure the octane in gas. In Europe isnt premium in the 100s. This led me to think that Husky's premium might be measured different than a shell premium. Stupid thought I know but swear I read this somewhere.
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Europe uses RON, we use RON-MON/2, I believe - we are 3-4 points below them, but the ocotane level is the same:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
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01-10-2011, 04:17 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 51.04177 -114.19704
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Quote:
Originally Posted by amorak
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Looks like I was right:
The Road Octane Number lies between the MON and RON
so RON+MON / 2 = North American Octane, which is called Road Octane Number, but not RON as an abbrev.
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