Hey i went to get gas today and went in and paid for it then i came out realizing the pump i was at only had 87...I still had a little 93 in there and i have a little over half a tank of the 87. Is this going to pose a serious threat to my car? Should i just take it easy on it till i finish the tank?

 

Your knock sensor shall kick it. I have done this about 1 month ago myself cuz I forgot. Dont go in the range where VTEC kicks in. Take it easy on the car. DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT go buy octane booster and pour it in there. Just drive and dont rev past 4k.

 

Just drive very easy until the tank empties.

 

why not buy octane booster

 

just drive easy. don't make it a habit though. when i was shopping for a GSR i checked out one owned by an older guy, said he usually put 89 in it. the car sounded like total CRAP!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SMZ GSR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just drive easy. don't make it a habit though. when i was shopping for a GSR i checked out one owned by an older guy, said he usually put 89 in it. the car sounded like total CRAP!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

geez can't people read manuals anymore... RTFM!

 

what happens if you use octane booster? what are the side effects?

 

I'd like to know the affects of it too. my friend just put some in his eclipse and was saying that its really good for the car before racing. i don't know much about it so i just gave him a nod and said goodluck

 

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and by paying 1.99 or whatever for octane booster, your treating your engine to a bath in the sickest filth. it coats everything it touches a thick brownish powder. might as well pour dirt in the IM. but if you do decide to do it, plan on replacing the spark plugs. seriously dont do it. it wrecks your ****.

 

should i fill up the rest of the tank with 93 or just drive this one out?

 

u might wanta fill it up with 93 but even if u do that still dont go anwhere close to vtec or u will screw ur car

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by silver b18b1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">u might wanta fill it up with 93 but even if u do that still dont go anwhere close to vtec or u will screw ur car</TD></TR></TABLE>

nice job of reiderating what everyone else already said 14 times.

common guys..

 

ya thanks


he asked if he should fill it up with 93, and i said it probably woudln't matter whether or not he did cause he shouldn't take it to vtec anyways so y dont u stfu

 

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and now here you go...

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its like getting repeted over and over and over. i really hate being mean but this is useless. sorry for being an ***.

 

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he asked if he should fill it up with 93, and i said it probably woudln't matter whether or not he did cause he shouldn't take it to vtec anyways so y dont u stfu </TD></TR></TABLE>

well, his question was already answered...

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do not use 87 in a gsr! at least 89.. if u cant afford 91. makes it super slow to

 

It was an accident, I always get 93 but today was just one of those days....Thanks for the replies.

 

wow
i dont really it makes much of a difference
i always run 91 in my car and i never got anything else
i know losts of poor as people that run 87 in there gsr's and type R's and it seems to run fine
my friends almost always gets 87 for his type r ans it still seems to run very strong

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by riceball777 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">...my friends almost always gets 87 for his type r ans it still seems to run very strong...</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SMZ GSR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just drive easy. don't make it a habit though. when i was shopping for a GSR i checked out one owned by an older guy, said he usually put 89 in it. the car sounded like total CRAP!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

I've used 89 for a couple years in my GSR and it ran fine (Vtec here and there). Maybe he didn't know how to take care of the car.

 

Sit in your car...read the sign near the tach...see what that says? "Premeium Fuel Only"
i cant spell, so shhh

 

Ignore most of the dingbats in this thread. I say that you fill the rest of the tank with 93 if it worries you so much.

I have run mine on 87, only because I wanted to see how much retard the ECU would run and how much less power there is. It will do NO damage to your motor unless you continually fill up with 87.

If you feel the need to be on the safe side, follow what the rest of the people have said above. In any case, there isn't going to be any catastrophic engine faliure as a result of a little 87.......

 

that happen to me once, i happen to pump 87 octane into my gsr by accident and not realizing it. I had bout half tank full of 93 and pump 87 into my car, which i only pump 3gallons worth of it stopping at bout 5 bucks. ( didnt wanna get embarrased for pumping $1 worth of gas) so i decided to go with $5 to make it look better, anyways, when i drove off, seems like my car choked alot and stupid me hit vtec alot trying to burn out the gas. Anyhow just be careful....87 sucks *****, even if i dont have any money left, i still wouldn't settle for 87 especially motors that are built for Premium fuel only.

 

if u run 87 octane u should adjust the ignition timing to work with it. when u put in 93 octane you should advance the timing. the octane has to do with the point in which the fuel ignites in the cylender chamber. if u have advanced timing and run 87 octane you may notice "pinging" a noise which is to sum it up pre-ignition.