[Wombat]

I can't believe it. I pulls up to my local Shell garage the other night to fill up with precious Optimax only to be faced with a note saying that the garage was changing to BP overnight

What do I do?

Its 8 mile of **** driving to the nearest Shell garage now and 500m to the Bp

What would you do boys, do I stick to the Optimax and forgo that part of my life just to go and get it or do i go BP which is dearer and has lower RON?

HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lengthmeister]

I ran my 4 on both optimax and ultimate and i couldnt tell the difference performancewise but it did seem to run a shade cooler with the ultimate.

I have put both in my RS and i cant say theres a difference there either so i reckon its downto you as to whether or not you want to do a round trip of 16 miles (and remember thats a gallon) to fill up

 

[Wombat]

I ran my 4 on both optimax and ultimate and i couldnt tell the difference performancewise but it did seem to run a shade cooler with the ultimate.

I have put both in my RS and i cant say theres a difference there either so i reckon its downto you as to whether or not you want to do a round trip of 16 miles (and remember thats a gallon) to fill up

Cheers mate, thats what i was after, people who have used the ultimate with no adverse problems with their motor

 

[TurboTom]

Don;t use BP ulitmate , well , if you do use Det. Cans

 

[Wombat]

Don;t use BP ulitmate , well , if you do use Det. Cans

what the **** are det cans (please excuse my ignorance-I sell chickens for a living and know **** all about cars )

 

[TurboTom]

what the **** are det cans (please excuse my ignorance-I sell chickens for a living and know **** all about cars )

Detonation can's , are like headphones of listening to detonation (which ain't good for ya engine) in your engine

 

[Wombat]

that sounds too technical for me!!!! the pendulum swings once again in the direction of the 16 mile round trip to Mr. Optimax

 

[TurboTom]

that sounds too technical for me!!!! the pendulum swings once again in the direction of the 16 mile round trip to Mr. Optimax

It'll be a "fun" 16 mile round trip though

 

[Wombat]

It'll be a "fun" 16 mile round trip though

I think that i'll have to make it that way. The only problem is, when I start on a blast like that i'm off til i need more fuel!!!!!

More expense here I guess

 

[speed junkie]

Think yourself lucky, for us Irish boys, the nearest SUL garage is in Northern Ireland!!!

The Republic have stopped importing it, so give me a 8 mile trip any day

My nearest is about 90 miles :crackup:


But hey, what can you do?? Want to post me over some please??

 

[Wombat]

Think yourself lucky, for us Irish boys, the nearest SUL garage is in Northern Ireland!!!

The Republic have stopped importing it, so give me a 8 mile trip any day

My nearest is about 90 miles :crackup:

But hey, what can you do?? Want to post me over some please??

**** ME!!!! what the hell do you do for fuel then fella?

 

[mike_turbo]

dont you have an esso nearby? or tescos with 99ron

 

[AndyF_RSX]

What do I do?
What would you do boys, do I stick to the Optimax and forgo that part of my life just to go and get it or do i go BP which is dearer and has lower RON?

Go for the Ultimate. You might be surprised....... Although, as always, I'd recommend Esso SUL above them both

Andy

 

[123456]

Mine has Ultimate 95% of the time, no problems in 57,000 miles

 

[Traction Man]

I've used BP Ultimate for 20 months, no probs at all. It's been on 2 rolling roads, no det, running 1.5bar as well. Hell, I even used Ultimate in my old Jap WRX for a year, and the chocolate pistons survived the ordeal perfectly intact.

 

[jcremonini]

Don;t use BP ulitmate , well , if you do use Det. Cans

That's a worrying statement. I have to admit, I find BP better than Optimax. Is this said through experience then ?

Of course, if true, it also means I can go to tuner X after filling with Optimax, fill up with BP at some point afterwards, get Det 'left right and centre' and then come on here and slag that tuner off noend

James.

 

[TurboTom]

That's a worrying statement. I have to admit, I find BP better than Optimax. Is this said through experience then ?

Of course, if true, it also means I can go to tuner X after filling with Optimax, fill up with BP at some point afterwards, get Det 'left right and centre' and then come on here and slag that tuner off noend

James.

Yes , it's through experiance , i know of a car being mapped on a tank of BP Ulitmate which had to have nearly half the ignition taken out of the mapp for it to be safe . Then , all the BPU was used , a full tank of Optimax was bought , all the ignition was able to be loaded back into the mapp with out a crack of Det.

The car was an 8MR 320 . The tuner was more than qualified .

It might have been a rouge tank of fuel , supplied by that garage , and yes , i'm 100% sure it was ultimate NOT normal unleaded as i've seen the reciept too

I'm glad to hear people's cars are fine running the BPU , it's good to know yours have been / are fine - but tbh they will be , the car was either mapped to that fuel and their fore the ignition will have been mapped in safely . Or if it's a Ralliart ECU (or simmilar) then that's got the capability of running many different stages of tune and fuels available - so it will be fine.

 

[Aidy]

It might have been a rouge tank of fuel

Is that the petrol equivalent of red diesel?

 

[AndyF_RSX]

Tom,
The key point in your statement is that the car was obviously mapped for the particular fuel and so there will be a difference due to the change in RON however, if the car isn't mapped for it then provided it doesn't det on 97RON (which is highly unlikely) there will be no problems running any super unleaded.

Andy

 

[TurboTom]

Is that the petrol equivalent of red diesel?

.........or someone filling the BPU tanks with standard fuel :blah: