reminds me of the gas crisis in 1973. I was in the Air Force at that time and lived on base, so I had access to 145 octane Avgas (which you can no longer get).. I put some of that in my trusty little Honda S90. Holed the piston after a week.
@barneyrides
7 ай бұрын
Haha that's nuts 😂
@adotintheshark4848
7 ай бұрын
I'll tell you though, that little 90cc bike ran like a 250...until it didn't!@@barneyrides
@jaretaustin14
7 ай бұрын
Good video but scientific answer is no it doesn't. Only way higher octane makes more power is if you adjust your cam/spark timing and/or run a higher compression ratio piston, otherwise you actually lose power running higher octane. The reason a lot of people who throw it in their bike and say it's faster is 1. Placebo effect and 2. With most higher octane fuels you need to run more fuel to get the correct afr so if you just throw the fuel in and don't tune for it then you are making the bike more lean which usually makes a little more power but you don't want to run it lean very much or you might do damage to your engine OR a lot of ecu tuners who just flash your ecu without the bike will make it a little rich to make sure if they're a little off then its still safe and so running higher octane leans it out to the correct afr which makes it make a little more power but actually the most power is achieved with the lowest possible octane fuel you can run before you start having knock issues and making sure you are tuned properly
@gw4717
7 ай бұрын
See thats what my zx10r does with that gas the front wheel comes up like crazy making pulls
@gw4717
7 ай бұрын
So it does something good
@ogpeekhal
7 ай бұрын
So you're one of the moto riders that rides with high beams on during the day
@abikeanditsboy3449
7 ай бұрын
Almost everything you said was scaring me: 40 degrees, was freezing overnight, gotta watch for ice, gonna show the wires on the tire, and doing high speed runs in the same stretch of road ... All that sounds super sketch. 🏍 🚔 100 octane won't make you faster. It helps with premature detonation and as every guy knows premature ... erm "detonation" ... is a bad thing. The higher octane would allow you to run higher compression which could produce more power if properly tuned but just changing from 93 octane to 100 won’t do anything. The faster times you saw are easily within statistical margins for measurement error. Also you did the high octane runs second which means you had a bit of practice which could also account for the slightly faster times. But it was a lot of fun and that's what counts.
@gw4717
7 ай бұрын
I run vp t4 in my dirt bike and sometimes I'll run a tank through my zx10r and it likes it I do feel a difference but that's 97 octane but it runs way better for some reason
@gw4717
7 ай бұрын
I can tell when I race it it pulls so hard and usually only pulls up when I hit second gear but with that vp t4 it will come up in 3rd gear
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