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I can testify! Artie is a baaaaaaaad boy! Jim


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I think what he is saying is that it is a "bracket race" after any heads up runs or class eliminations. With the cost for racing fuel and the extra .10 you pick up from it, it's all about shoe polish. In the "good old days", everyone ran off their class index. The faster car within their index should win against slower car running off their index. There was an advantage for every hundredth of a second to be fast. Now, it doesn't matter as much about ET, because you put what you want on the window. It's more about the cost of the fuel, not the fuel check it self.
With our bracket cars, we used to run VP or CAM 2 fuel at $12.00 a gallon. Now we run Sunoco 93 pump gas @ $3.80 to $ 4.10 a gallon with one degree of timing taken out. Last night, my son's stick car ran an 11.98, 11.97, 11.96, 11.97., so consistency has not been an issue either.
Just my .02.

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Does Sunoco 93 pass fuel check?

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The "good old days" when you won if you got to the starting line first. Only lasted one year. I think it was 1975. From then till now it's been shoe polish. Except in the case of same class.

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This thread has strayed a little from fuel check. I'll throw in my .02 in that I agree with Joe. In a previous thread, Bob Bender suggested that any fuel DQ on the low side (showing old or bad fuel) not be counted as this does not offer any performance advantage. I agree with that. Last year I bought 10 gallons of fresh Sunoco purple at Numidia and went to Englishtown the following weekend for the Supernationals and my fuel was declared no good. Luckily, I had an old jug of Sunoco and it passed no problem. (my lawn mower ran great that summer). So how about continuing with fuel check but only DQ for failure on the high side?

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Because that makes too much sense, Bob!

I find it hard to believe that with the advances in technology in the last 10 years, SOMEONE hasn't been able to design an apparatus that can screen out performance-increasing additives added to gasoline. Other than the financial considerations (not having to buy $15-a-gallon race fuel), why shouldn't the powers that be find a way to allow us to use pump gas if we want to?

I know every combination is different, but most of the vehicles with lower compression may not need all that octane.

Just my $.02

Lew

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I had read a few years ago in a engineering journal that in many instances ( not all -but most ) that engines ( stock type ) can ran faster on a certain tune with lower octane than available race gas. That going as low as you can with octane with no detonation has shown those results. Would love to post the article but can't find the magazine since I moved. This probably has something to do with the big power engine builders and tuners are getting from pump gas motors nowadays. Wouldn't that be a nice shot in the wallet.

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A good racing chemist could enhance pump gas and make really good power with it im sure. Most likely be very hard to police with the field test. Pump gas is hard to test because there is no conststancy in it. So much Ethanol in it now a days, and getting worse. Pump gas runis alot of fuel systems these days beacuse of the corosive proporties. Guys would bitch if they started having problems with their 1200.00 Qjets and New Holley's because on the new fuel..

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Todd, Point well taken there as the ethanol ( 10% ) in the Long Island area was just killing my fuel system as it was steel braided hose without the correct lining. Going to hard line the system the system over the winter and be done with it.-John