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[jetjock]

Geezer pretty much has it right. Do you think that say, Shell or Chervon puts a load of gas into the pipeline and waits for the same stuff to come out the other end? Or that in most cases the gasoline goes from the refinery directly into a tanker and is driven to your local service station? Doesn't work that way. Instead time on the pipelines are leased. It's the same for natural gas and crude.

A particular company's fuel additives are blended in as the tanker is filled at the pipeline terminal, which is usually within half a day's drive from the filling station. Until that happens it's all the same stuff. Now if you want to compare additives that's a different story. I won't go into that but if you use any of the "Top Tier" gasolines you'll be fine: http://tinyurl.com/r3rqa

 

[grsupra87]

interesting stuff. However, not one station mentioned thats available where I live! I must really be in BFE. I however always put Sunoco 94 in my Supra, and my Si, and my bike. The Hyundai gets 87 lol like the lawnmower.

 

[SMP142]

from my own experiance you cant tell the difference in pump gas no matter what octane it is. so i spend less money and get the 87. how many ppl out there do you know buy 89 or 91+? a very limited few. my dad does excavation and removes old fuel tanks from stations and replaces them. he has talked to alota gas station owners and this is the basics..... when the price is low they fill up all the underground tanks at the station. then they pretty much wait till it bottoms out again before they fill it. this is especially true for the higher octanes. he has been told that the 87 tanks have been filled as many as 10 times or more before a 91 or higher octane tank has been filled again. thats a long time, and as stated before gas gets old fast. when you end up buying the higher octanes they have fallen down to, or below the 87 octane which is cheaper to begin with. i stick with my 87 at a nice and busy location to make sure its fresh. if i am gonna go out and spend money on good gas, your certain its gonna be race gas of atleast 110! :naughty:

 

[jetjock]

I however always put Sunoco 94 in my Supra, and my Si, and my bike.

Good 'ol Sunoco. I haven't seen that stuff since I left the east coast years ago. When I was there they had a whole bunch of grades. 190 to 260 or something like that on each pump. You set the little dial on the pump to get what you wanted.

 

[suprastanger507mgte]

Gas is gas only when it is supplied to the seller. After the gas companies like Shell/Chevron etc receives them...its totally a different blend as they add their own addititives.
So it is not safe to say that you will get the same quality gas at different gas companys, and that makes the difference.

 

[tonysupra]

I don't see Mobile on that top tier list. I've used many gas stations to fill up my gas guzzlin 4runner and I have to say that FoodBag & Citgo gas got me the lowest gas mileage @ 93 octane. While on the other hand, Shell and Mobile got me the highest mpg. I'll stick to Shell V-power because we don't have 76, Chevron, and etc.

 

[grsupra87]

Good 'ol Sunoco. I haven't seen that stuff since I left the east coast years ago. When I was there they had a whole bunch of grades. 190 to 260 or something like that on each pump. You set the little dial on the pump to get what you wanted.

yep....87, or 89, or 93, or 94. But now you push a button to select grade. Mostly around here we have Sunoco, Exxon, Citgo, Sheetz, Kwik Fill, BP. Anyway, I hope what SMP said isn't happening to me. The Si requires 91 due to the high compression, and I don't want to turn my rings to slag! Do you think its wise to add octane booster to prevent this?

 

[whenmunkysfly]

i wont goanywhere but cheveron i would run out of gas before i would go somewhere else

 

[NA86.5]

I have to run 91 octane in my 86.5 NA if I run 87 it starts to back fire badd:3d_frown: So now all I put in it is 91 oct . I use shell v power but after reading this thread I ll try the 91 octane from octane from EXXON.:aigo: All in all the gas prices are high :rant2:

 

[whenmunkysfly]

since we're on the subject notice the single nozzle fuel stations notice also the langth of the hose supplying fuel ok lets say the person before you got regular so that mean when you come up and use premeum your first say 1/4gal. is regular gas. and your paying permeum price for that regular wtf. then the next person gets your permeum gas at a discount if they use regular

 

[Clip]

so it all equals out, since your lawnmower might occasionally get the higher octane gas.

i use sheetz. and i always fill up at pump #8. why? i dunno, but all the security cams can see that pump clearly.

 

[GotToyota?]

RaceTrac, Chevron, and 7-11 are the only ones I use. There is even a Chevron here that has 94, I oughta try it sometime.

-Matt

 

[Fuzz420]

Here in louisville a few months backt they did there own investigation about gas and octane.They said thorntons gas was rated higher than at the pump, 93 was actually 94.They had good results from chevron here as welll not as good as the thorntons here.I use bp personally, my car seems to like it the best

 

[cartel1_950]

shell gas is the worst thing for your car. i put it in my colt and it ended up killiing the fuel filter and esso caused the supra to ping so i'm down to perto can and haven't had any problems with it yet.

 

[RacerXJ220]

It doesn't matter which brand you buy.

The quality rests with the service station you pump from, not which brand gas you pump.

 

[supra90turbo]

I just siphon out of cars at the junkyard.
My car runs funny...

 

[MassSupra89]

I just siphon out of cars at the junkyard.
My car runs funny...

I know a dumb kid who rigged up an old fuel pump to a cig lighter and would siphon gas into his truck.... The thing was so slow I think he was siphoning some minivan for like 20 minutes, and the guy came out, chased him and kicked his ass. lol

 

[pimptrizkit]

i wont use shell gas, or texico gas



i will use arco, bp and chevron..

i have read a few studies showing chevron being the best and bp/arco with in the top five, 76 being one of them aswell

i have dirt bikes and quads, (2 stroke) and we need to mix oil into the gas to keep the bikes from seezing up,

normanly i run arco in them because acro has methonal in it witch gives a little extra unff down at the beach while climbing the dunes.


the reason i wont buy shell gas is because every time i have, my bikes have ran like crap, the gas looks like piss after you have been drinking all night. (really dark yellow for those who dont know.. ) and the gas smells liek turbintime..


latley i have been running chevron 76 or arco, chevron o 76 if i have to put it on credit and arco if i run debit,.. since my bhg whil runnin 87 pump, i have put nothign less in my tank then premuim.

here's why,

price to fill up with regular at 2.87/gallon 37.31
and price to fill with premuim at 3.07/gallon 39.91
difference of 2.60 per fill up.
that figuring a 13 gallon fill up. most people dont fill up more then 10 times a month i hope..

but i fill up every 2-3 days

eek really wish i didn't just do this, but my gas bill for july (checked my cards)
and it came to $$$$$$$$$$394.21$$$$$$$$$
if i had a civic, i could have put 300 into larger injectors or a aero fpr...