Performance fuel test
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Too many external variables to be meaningful.
If you're driving on track with split second timing it might make a difference but for Joe Public on the road, meaningless..
If you're driving on track with split second timing it might make a difference but for Joe Public on the road, meaningless..
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That engine wasn't being treated very sympathetically on the dyno. Into the red on every run. No limiter?
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Who won?
W1ghty
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Morrisons 
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Interesting that Tesco came out top - again! Years (a decade plus!) ago, in my 968 ownership days, I decided to treat what was now my weekend toy to something better than 95RON - which she'd run well on for years - and as a result of a comparative test I saw then settled on Moventum, and mostly stuck to it. Supermarket fuel eh??!! My 968 coupe then cab ran really well on it.
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The power differences wasn't the key take-away for me; more important was the differences in 'knocking' between the fuels. It did correlate to the power output and I interpreted it as meaning that Momentum and V-Power will reduce the amount of knock. Esso 95 in a high performance engine sounded like a death penalty, especially if you often put lots of load on the engine, eg booting your car in a high gear, from low revs.
