Alrighty, here we go. If you are running a programmer for your truck and it needs 93 or higher octane to run the performance mode, could you add a 5 dollar octane booster to your tank of regular 87 octane gas instead of paying 10 dollars or more for filling up with premium? Or is an additive not genuine enough for a programmer? Any help would be appreciated

Drew

 

Try it and see. The worst then can happen is that you will have to reprogram that chip.
But after the cost of a good octane booster, all that you would need it another couple dollars and you could have filled the tanks with the properly rated fuel.

Are you really that cheap ( I am) to not pay the couple extra dollars?

 

before you put the octane booster in the tank i would check to find out just how many points it actually raises the octane in the tank. i was thinking about that one time and it would have been cheaper to get the 93 octane in the first place.

do you have a chip or a programmer?? if a programmer what kind?? i have the predator for my 2002 4.6L and i can go in and change the tune from 93 to 87 octane.

 

I have just ordered an Edge Evolution programmer, but I don't have it yet. I believe its new on the market now and it requires premium gas to run the high-performance mode. I just don't want this to be not a true octane treatment and cause my engine to detonate with the adjusted fuel and timing curve. But as for money, I'm your average high school student with a small paycheck, so every dollar I can save helps, especially with an expensive girlfriend like mine. I know all of you understand what its like.

Drew

 

With the good fuel, and proper maintenance, the truck will outlast the girlfriend anyhow....

 

i understand about the g/f man. they are about all like that. i would run the tank of 87 octane you got as close to "E" as possible then fill up with 93 and just that one take all the octane booster to be safe and from then on you will be o.k.

 

No. First, a twenty gallon tank of premium will cost about $4.00 more than 87 octane, not $10. Second, there's a lot of misleading labeling with octane boosters. When the bottle says it raises octane by 5 points they mean 0 point 5. Or in other words, 0.5, or 1/2 octane.

 

octane boosters are overrated, 93 runs better, i tried running 87 with an octane booster, it does nothing, when i ran 93, before the raised gas prices, my truck ran better, feeling bad since i'm depriving it now . I understand about the girlfriend thing, but i lucked out and got a pretty cheap one, only prob is that it took half a tank to see her and go out with her, thats what sucks about living in the woods, lived 35 miles from her, now i live 120, but not for long, can't wait until next fall when she comes down to a college near me but yeah, run the 93, it should only run a couple bucks more. not 10, i think you might actually come out ahead if you were to run the 93 instead of paying high dollar for a decent octane booster that isn't guarenteed to give you the results you want.

 

Say a gallon of 87 is 2.09 and a gallon of 93 is 2.29. So at 25 gallons here is what you would spend :

87 = 52.25
93 = 57.25

Ken is right on about those octane boosters. Read the label on them. When it says 5 or 10 points, remember this : a "point" is .1 (1/10th) of 1 octane. So 5 points equals half an octane to make 87.5 octane in your tank at 5 dollars a bottle = someone got screwed.

 

Thanks for the info guys. Yeah I would have been pretty much screwed if I hadn't come here. Thanks again and eveyrone keep up the good work!

Drew

 

Your welcome