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Old Jul 18, 2008 | 02:33 AM
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Well about 2k miles ago i supercharged my car..

9.5 Pully
Forge 007 BPV
Hks Hi Power.

Aem wideband runs about 11.4-11.6 6K WOT


I run 93 Octane. And My last full tank was of CAM2 110 Octane.

Stock trd tune.




Well durring the install after removing the header i noticed the Left cylinder(looking at the motor) I notice the valves were noticably whiter on that one cylinder.

Pulling the spark plugs they appreared to all be the same

Its also the last injector on the fuel rail.


Car runs flawless pulls very hard. Idles perfect 22-20 vacum idle.


It kinda seemed like starting from Left right, White, dirty white, White, Dirty white.



Heres a pic of the headers, Notice the last cylinder has some white residue on it...


Old Jul 18, 2008 | 04:34 AM
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So whats the problem chief? Have you not seen what race fuel or other high octane fuel does? Take a look at your exhaust tip, Im willing to wager that its got that white powder on it too.
Old Jul 18, 2008 | 04:44 AM
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have you tried a compression check, you might be runnng lean on just cylinder due to a comprimised gasket.
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i know what race gas does... But why on only one cylinder?
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looks like all to me.....
Old Jul 18, 2008 | 12:30 PM
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A better question would be, why are you running 110 octane? 9.6:1 + 9.5lbs does NOT need 110 octane.
Old Jul 18, 2008 | 12:35 PM
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Yeah no need to run that man... Seriously, stop wasting your money on that.
Old Jul 18, 2008 | 01:25 PM
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Locally None of the stations had 93...


So whenu have a choice of 86 octane or 110...


110 4TW


hmm
Old Jul 19, 2008 | 05:33 PM
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that wouldve been my choice.
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