[s-cars] Octane MTM+1

[John Cody Forbes]

Marc Gorelick wrote:
> I've used toluene in my S/Ced Miata for years.  It helps a lot with
> detonation problems.
>
> As I recall, toluene is a component of gasoline anyway so you're not
> really putting a "foreign" substance into your car, just changing the
> relative mixture of the fuel.  Someone with actual engineering-leve
> knowledge of such things will be able to provide more details on this
> aspect.
>

Turbo F1 cars ran on a high % of tolulene, thats where the name "rocket 
ruel" came to be a nickname for tolulene - the 1500hp 1.5l BMW F1 program 
;-).

Buddy of mine runs 93 gasolene mixed 50/50 with tolulene in his 13:1 
compression 3.0l stroked Bimmer 325 with no issues, been running it like 
that for years.

-Cody Forbes
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