Pump gas in stock

Signman · 11-05-2021, 09:38 AM

I get this discussion is about making pump gas legal but NHRA fuel test fails oxygenate additives and they don't seem interested in a better device.

A few years back VP was promoting C9 which is high octane unleaded gasoline with no additives. 100% gasoline no oxygenates. It was marketed to circle track who had embraced it and Stock Eliminator. At the time was looking at fuels and asking questions while building a good engine.

NO it was not as fast as C11 but it did not have any of the corrosive additives. Could still run a second under the tuneup developing had good potential to go rounds plus it is lower cost. Won class at a national event with it which netted some help from VP in product and tech.

NHRA removed C9 and a Sunoco equivalent from the accepted fuel list because it did not test consistently national event to national event plus NO ONE WAS RUNNING IT! Very few racers would be affected.

In division one the only other person I met who admitted using it was a small inch heavy upper class racer. He had similar results and liked it for similar reasons. Trying to help promote the fuel over the few years it was on the list the question always was IS IT FASTER of course the answer was no so off to the C11 drum they went.

11-05-2021, 09:38 AM	#11
Signman Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Lower Slower Delaware Posts: 535 Likes: 22 Liked 269 Times in 99 Posts	Re: Pump gas in stock I get this discussion is about making pump gas legal but NHRA fuel test fails oxygenate additives and they don't seem interested in a better device. A few years back VP was promoting C9 which is high octane unleaded gasoline with no additives. 100% gasoline no oxygenates. It was marketed to circle track who had embraced it and Stock Eliminator. At the time was looking at fuels and asking questions while building a good engine. NO it was not as fast as C11 but it did not have any of the corrosive additives. Could still run a second under the tuneup developing had good potential to go rounds plus it is lower cost. Won class at a national event with it which netted some help from VP in product and tech. NHRA removed C9 and a Sunoco equivalent from the accepted fuel list because it did not test consistently national event to national event plus NO ONE WAS RUNNING IT! Very few racers would be affected. In division one the only other person I met who admitted using it was a small inch heavy upper class racer. He had similar results and liked it for similar reasons. Trying to help promote the fuel over the few years it was on the list the question always was IS IT FASTER of course the answer was no so off to the C11 drum they went. __________________ Frank Ferrucci I/SA 1271 "Be Thankful for the Gifts You are Given"