100+ Octane unleaded?
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bah, you don't need 94 octane... silly stock motor guys....
i've heard rumor of 93, but i haven't bothered looking, 92 suits my needs at this point. besides, if nick (tufte and thompson), dave, matt, and nate can make the kind of power (or close to it) that their cars are capable of with 92, then i can be happy with it too.edit: sorry kevin ;), forgot you in the list
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I've gotta rant.
So I go to Phillips 66 (Brady's Service) to get some 100oct. They wouldn't even sell it to me! The "mechanic" was trying to feed me shit about hardened seals, and how my engine would blow in my "little 6'er". It all started off with them telling me it was 100 LEADED, when it clearly says 100oct UNLEADED on the pump. After I snapped a pic of this on my phone and walk back to his desk, he tries to change his story. Damn, what a waste of a drive to Moorhead.
When I tried to explain to him that my car is indeed performance oriented with a bi-turbo motor and numerous mods, including upgraded fueling parts from the Rs4 in Europe. I got a "OH, Europe" reply. He through in "you probably have 22lb injectors, blah". I know my injectors flow at 350cc / 4bar, but I'm not sure what that converts to in lb/hr. However, it's definately enough to run 100oct.
I said, whatever I'll just go elsewhere. He replied with "too bad you can't find this anywhere else around here." I was pissed by now, and made a few smart ass comments (probably shouldn't have), and followed by telling him I could get Sunoco 104 at a couple different shops.
Morale... Don't go to those guys, they are a-holes. :mad:
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wow. that is sad. did they even see your car? they obviously don't know anything. personally, i would've said, "i want to talk to the owner about how you're turning away a potential repeat customer worth $50 per sale."
actually... with higher octane, your car flows less fuel, so the injector comment is an example of his ignorance -
Foreigner? i doubt it. i could probably go over there and ask for 100 and theyd laugh at me and think i was stupid. I live a few blocks north of Bradys, their lot is always fulla old rusted out muscle cars. Oh well, theres more places i bet.
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that sucks man
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out there wrote:
bah, you don't need 94 octane... silly stock motor guys....
i've heard rumor of 93, but i haven't bothered looking, 92 suits my needs at this point. besides, if nick (tufte and thompson), dave, matt, and nate can make the kind of power (or close to it) that their cars are capable of with 92, then i can be happy with it too.edit: sorry kevin ;), forgot you in the list
92 works for me too right now. After I bumped up from like 87-89, I noticed a significant decrease in "knocking" noise. I was pretty much just curious about the 94 octane thing.
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There is 93 octane pump gas in West Fargo. I don't remember the name of the gas station but it's on the south side of Main after you go over the bridge in West Fargo. I have bought the 93 there before and they have pay at the pump so if you don't get there before 11 you can still get it. I think there was something on the building about it being a truck stop too.
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hmmm...I'm gonna have to stop in there when I get back to town and see if they will sell it to me w/ my little ricer. Sorry to hear about the bad treatment though.
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Brady's service station sucks ass.
When I had my talon, I took it to them becuase my radiator hose was leaking. Anyway the proceeded to fuck it up; they didn't fix the problem, two days later it was leaking again. So I brought the car back, and told the the problem wasn't fixed, and they told me I was full of shit and that they dont make mistakes.
The owner basically said he had checked over it, and that there COULDN'T have been a mistake, beucase HE looked over it.
Ended up taking it somewhere else, and they woudln't refund me, wouldn't do anything, and I was out of luck.
I have two more brady's stories about getting towed:
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Talon's battery connection things had corroded through and it didn't make a good connection so it was stuck in my drive way (this was before radiator incident). Had them come tow it... driver was a total dick head, he drove really fast and the muffler on the back got totally fucked up, but they said it wasn't thier responsiblility b/c the car was low, but it was on stock suspension?! I wasn't too mad at the time...
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Well last year, as a last resort, I had to call them for a tow once again; this is in my spyder. The crank pulley had fallen off (man how many times have i gotten towed? lol), the guy backs up, puts the thing that the car goes on to on the ground and starts lifting the car up, but he TOTALLY smushes the front bumper while lifting the car up, i was like stop stop stop! and he did and then he like didnt' even care. There are still stress marks and chips from where that fucker lifted it up.
Place is a pile of shit, don't patronize them.
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Talon
1st Tow - Girlfriends Driveway - Radiator leak
2nd Tow - Outside my house - repeat radiator leak
3rd Tow - Walmart Parkinglot - alarm starter kill freaked out
4th tow - Park Rapids - Alternator died
5th Tow - my driveway - battery terminal connector things corrodedSpyder
6th Tow - Girlfriends house - Spyder crank pulley fell off
7th Tow - Tow from around brainerd -> moorhead - Transmission DiedI'm trying to think... I think there may have been some others in there. Can't remember.
I dont care, I still like it
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shit that sucks Jim, I haven't had any bad towing experiences yet.
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Jim wrote:
Talon1st Tow - Girlfriends Driveway - Radiator leak
2nd Tow - Outside my house - repeat radiator leak
3rd Tow - Walmart Parkinglot - alarm starter kill freaked out
4th tow - Park Rapids - Alternator died
5th Tow - my driveway - battery terminal connector things corrodedSpyder
6th Tow - Girlfriends house - Spyder crank pulley fell off
7th Tow - Tow from around brainerd -> moorhead - Transmission DiedI'm trying to think... I think there may have been some others in there. Can't remember.
I dont care, I still like it
Night north from moorhead, when LT's radiator hose blew and then we took yours off. Jims the official poster boy for AAA -
Oh, i abandoned you. I didnt really care.
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