my alfa didn't. it is a european car designed to run on 95ron.
Do you use a super fuel?
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Do you use a super fuel?
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In America they have 92 ron fuel, must be like running your car on cat pi*s
no, it's 92 MON. Have a look on google at the differences.
92 in america is same as 95 in uk they use different scales (mon vs ron)
EDIT: damn it arc
EDIT: damn it arc
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WTF????? untill you said that i had no idea that such a thing existed!
conversion chart i found:
RON MON PON
90 83 86.6
92 85 88.5
95 87 91
96 88 92
98 90 94
100 91.5 95.8
105 95 100
110 99 104.5
as you can see, american petrol seems to be every bit as good as ours... all these years ive thought bad of their fuel
still it makes perfect sense, otherwise they would have never been able to run japanese sportscars properly.
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I don't have a thanks button for some reason but didn't know that
didn't know that 
Well I've come to the end of a month long experiment running swift on V-powah...it could possibly be very very slightly faster, MPG is about the same...
if i sold 500ml bottles of regular petrol on ebay and dyed them blue, and sold it as "superblue" for £12 a bottle, i bet 7 out of 10 people would swear blind that their car ran faster even though it cant possibly do so. actually i think i'll start doing that.
in exactly the same way, your swift cant possibly run faster on super unleaded, yet you believe it has because a tv advert suggested it might. if you check the shell website they do actually confess that it wont do anything unless you have a suitable car. i just checked and your swift can only adapt its ignition timing up to 95ron levels (even the swift sport isnt fully adaptive) so higher octane cant help, it simply isnt possible.
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Its strange you say that about the swift sport...as they all have this car must be run on 98 octane printed inside the fuel door when you pop the cap until the 2008 face lift so maybe the information is on that car rather than the older one.
Also I was deliberately vague it might have been faster or it might have had a following wind! Perhaps I've lost weight over the last month..I wasn't exactly claiming a 20bhp increase!
that means the ignition timing map is designed for 98ron, which is very unusual for a uk spec car (its normal for a jap spec car). you can use a lower octane, but there will actually be a benefit to using 98ron fuel instead (but not higher than that because it isnt fully adaptive).
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how about you get 30% if the ebay account is in your name. we also need 20 people to leave positive feedback saying it works to get things started. that will require 20 £10 bribes and paying the listing and seller fees for those bottles, you can buy 30% of superblue if you stump up the cash for that. i'll buy a shed load of bottles and the fuel and blue dye, and handle the despatch of orders. i'll also produce the superblue labels and attach them to the bottles.
sign on the dotted line
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we need a label designer to join superblue :chin:
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We could be on to a winner here! Just thought, we could do the same thing with Wilkinsons engine oil. Buy a job lot of 5L cans, add sawdust and some blue dye, repackage in 500ml cans and sell it for £25 a shot as "Superblue engine restore". All part of the Superblue range of engine placebos, oops, I mean engine enhancers :devil:
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That's why I haven't signed. We need some other mug, erm..., I mean "invester" to host the Ebay account. :devil:
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Why did I just imagine a blonde reading the above post thinking about it then signing the screen in marker?
That'll be Mikeee
i love this thread
