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Press Blurb

 

Octane Boosters By NOS

 

America's Best Octane Booster!

Boost the octane rating of the unleaded gas you are using by 2-7 points, no kidding! NOS® offers three potent octane boosters available either for street, off-road or race that will effectively cure any engine "knocks" or "pings" that you may be experiencing.

Each 12 ounce bottle can treat 16 gallons of gasoline, and they're friendly to the catalytic converter and O2 sensor. Simply pour the contents into the gas tank the next time you get a fill-up. Recommended for all high performance import and domestic engines, including 2-stroke and marine. Also great for lawn and farm implements that run on gas engines! This stuff really WORKS

 

PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION

083+0174

12002NOS Street formula (6 in a case)

Adds 2-3 octane points boost

 

083+0175

12007NOS Off-road formula (6 in a case)

Adds 3-5 octane points boost

 

083+0176

12010NOS Racing formula (6 in a case)

Adds 4-7 octane points boost

(also contains nitromethane)

 

Anyone know if this stuff works/any good?

 

Can get hold of it - but no feedback as yet

 

 

 

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If I remember rightly its not much better then the stuff sold here:mad: I think your find it only adds a small increase in RON rating. Only way to go is proper race fuel or the Toulene route. I not sure what they mean by 2- 7 points but it defo aint the RON, that would make it far better than Toulene!!?

 

Nitromethane:confused: :flame Dev :twak:

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In my experience none of the stuff you can (legally) buy in little bottles is any good. IMO it is close to being a con. "Octane points"?? Most people might expect a rise of 3 octane points to raise 97 octane to 100 octane, I believe it really means it raises 97 octane to 97.3 octane... Tricky huh?

 

Toluene at around 10% by volume will raise 98 RON to about 100 RON. I use toluene ;)

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Originally posted by Chris Wilson

In my experience none of the stuff you can (legally) buy in little bottles is any good. IMO it is close to being a con. "Octane points"?? Most people might expect a rise of 3 octane points to raise 97 octane to 100 octane, I believe it really means it raises 97 octane to 97.3 octane... Tricky huh?

 

Toluene at around 10% by volume will raise 98 RON to about 100 RON. I use toluene ;)

 

Thanks Chris - thought as much but always worth the asking!

 

Have you got any magic juice in stock yet - cant find your thread - want to get some off you!

 

Cheers

 

Paul

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I use Nitrous Formula Race Spec booster in my scooby (not sure if it is the same stuff?) - my tuner (Bob Rawle - very well respected in the Impreza community) says it is very good stuff and does provide measurable gains as well as a bit of protection. He also says a lot of the other stuff is rubbish ;)!

 

This stuff actually states that it can "..raise the octane level by 60 points or 6 RON". On the basis that my car runs loads of advance, and doesn't knock and hasn't blown up, I'd recommend it although it is a hell of a lot more expensive per gallon than Toluene!!!

 

Web site is at http://www.nitrous.com.au/ and there are quite a few places where you can get it here.

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Originally posted by Chris Wilson

6 quid a gallon, I have stock, STRICTLY collect only, and bring your own container. It's in 45 gallon drums...

 

Why's that then Chris?

 

Wont your local postie deliver highly flammable fuel?... TSK!:p

 

If anyone from down south is visitng can you do me a favour and pick me some up from the esteemed gentleman?

 

Have a petrol can etc

 

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I used the NOS octane booster on my trackday just to be on the safe side and never had any problems and the car ran nice even with it getting hammered all day but in the future I think I will add some Toulene instead.

 

:flame Dev

 

I may do some experimenting with my mapper and get a map setup for a 10% - 15% mix.

 

Is there a maximum % that you shouldn`t really go over?

 

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I used millers oils Octane plus in my N/A soop

it says on it gives 20 point boost to fuel and in the small print a raise of 2 octane RONs.

It does make a bit of difference to my soop at low revs making it feel a lot more responsive to the throttle and kicking it up to the higher rev ranges quicker. In my book thats a little more power surely?

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