From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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>>Burning airplane fuel, not the crap we run here.
>
> An engine designed to run optimally on a given octane rating fuel will not
> run better on a higher octane fuel. Higher octane fuel does not have
> significantly more energy per gallon than low octane fuel. It is simply
> more
> resistant to detonation, which allows the engine to have a higher
> compression ratio and thus BMEP (Brake Mean Effective Pressure), in other
> words develop more power from each combustion cycle. Many performance-
> oriented Euro cars are designed to run on a higher octane rating fuel than
> that commonly available in the US. This might explain the difference -
> higher compression ratio yields both more power and higher fuel economy.

Hey you can't do that, bring reasonable information into a frtuiful,
intelligent discussion just like that! And anyways, mine is still bigger
than yours no matter what you say!


Antti Kurenniemi
(just trying to get the discussion back on the right track )

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