It is currently Sun May 03, 2026 11:05 am

Board index » General » WoodsBuggy Talk

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 37 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:41 am 
Offline
WoodsBuggy Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:53 pm
Posts: 3056
Location: Atlanta, GA
Like the Title Says... What fuel do you run in your buggy?

I have always used pump gas (93) in all my buggies but the new buggy takes 110. It took me a little while to even find a place that sells 110. Anyway, I was just wondering how many people are running Hi-Octane fuel.

_________________
Woodsbuggy forum is now on the Tapatalk Mobile app... (iPhone, iPad and Android devices)


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:06 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:52 pm
Posts: 917
Location: Calera, Alabama
111. 118 mix with 93 just cause we got a couple (55gal) drums left over from racin

_________________
IF YA CAN'T RUN WITH IT....RUN FROM IT


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:46 pm 
Offline
WoodsBuggy Addict
User avatar

Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:03 pm
Posts: 3181
Location: leeds alabama
Whatever racing fuel I can find near where im riding

_________________
Image

I DO NOT FREE BASE COCAINE


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:43 pm 
Offline
WB Contributor
User avatar

Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:23 pm
Posts: 1212
Location: Chattanooga Tennessee
Regular old low octane fuel, fuel injection and and ECU make inexpensive fuel do great things

_________________
Water Cooled Consortium, Chairman of the Build (Former AC purist)


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:45 pm 
Offline
Master fabricator
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:55 pm
Posts: 2304
Location: S.W. Pa. Wellsville Water Cooled Chapter
Red Barron wrote:
Regular old low octane fuel, fuel injection and and ECU make inexpensive fuel do great things


Air cooled suckers pay through the nose one way or another. :P

_________________
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
M
A
G
A


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:53 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:11 am
Posts: 41
Location: akron oh
I used to race quads and from what klotz racing fuels have told me when i got my race gas at the nationals is that mixing 93 with high test cancels out the high test basically im going to try an find this write they did about on it and post it .


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:25 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:24 pm
Posts: 492
Location: montevallo al
Only 111 octane $60 for 5 gallon can or $8 a gallon at the pump
But it does smell good when its running

_________________
if you cant run with the big dogs than slow down and make fun of the little ones


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:40 pm 
Offline
WB Competitor
User avatar

Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:19 am
Posts: 506
Location: Clarksville TN
93 with sea foam. kept compression at 10 and a half to 1 so i dont have to pay the price for the 110 or 115. i ran 118 in my stock cars for 15 years and its rough on the pocket as much as we ride with 3 buggys.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:04 pm 
Offline
BOTM Winner
User avatar

Joined: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:35 pm
Posts: 3097
Location: Rome Ohio
I run 93 pump gas in my Turbo Subbaru 2.5. I keep the boost under 8PSI due to the the 10.5:1 compression.

_________________
Water cooled Dry Sumped Subaru Powered Turbo Charged Fuel Injected 2500CC Tank. Oh Rah! He who dies with the most Toys not only wins, He also wears them out!


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:41 pm 
Offline
WB Contributor
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:22 am
Posts: 1177
Location: Wellsville, Ohio
I always ran 94 , but new motor is race fuel only, gonna see how rough it is on me this year might drop the compression over winter depending.

_________________
"IT IS WHAT IT IS"


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:01 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:52 am
Posts: 93
Location: Dry Branch, Ga.
jeff69 wrote:
Only 111 octane $60 for 5 gallon can or $8 a gallon at the pump
But it does smell good when its running

i think if 60.00 for can, or 8.00 at pump with same can, i would go to pump.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:29 pm 
Offline
WoodsBuggy Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:53 pm
Posts: 3056
Location: Atlanta, GA
David wrote:
jeff69 wrote:
Only 111 octane $60 for 5 gallon can or $8 a gallon at the pump
But it does smell good when its running

i think if 60.00 for can, or 8.00 at pump with same can, i would go to pump.


The place near my house sell 110 for $9.80 per gallon. If you buy it in a 5 gallon can, you have to pay an extra $10 for the can. I just bring my own gas cans and they fill them up.

_________________
Woodsbuggy forum is now on the Tapatalk Mobile app... (iPhone, iPad and Android devices)


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:56 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:38 am
Posts: 961
Location: Kettering Ohio
The cheapest 87 octane I can find. Nearly 300 hp and probably 25 mpg.

_________________
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:51 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:24 pm
Posts: 492
Location: montevallo al
Well I would rather buy pump racing fuel but its about 40 miles to
that store and about 8 miles to the store with 5 gallon cans so it
depends where I riding on which one I get

_________________
if you cant run with the big dogs than slow down and make fun of the little ones


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:45 pm 
Offline

Joined: Tue Dec 25, 2012 2:22 am
Posts: 335
Location: monroe indiana
110 sunoco


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:51 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:58 pm
Posts: 154
Location: chesapeake ohio
I run 100ll in one seater and just finishing refresh on two seater. I lowered compression to 9.5 to 1 so I can run pump gas.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:58 am 
Offline
WoodsBuggy Addict
User avatar

Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:37 am
Posts: 2737
Location: moulton,al
MadMike wrote:
Red Barron wrote:
Regular old low octane fuel, fuel injection and and ECU make inexpensive fuel do great things


Air cooled suckers pay through the nose one way or another. :P


unless he has a different buggy that I haven't heard about, no need for preaching that w/c shit cause his has a turbo subie in it already :roll:

_________________
Just Stand On It!!!!

Chris


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:02 am 
Offline
WoodsBuggy Addict
User avatar

Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:37 am
Posts: 2737
Location: moulton,al
and for the record mostly I run 110 monster brand gas out of the pump , at $7.00 gal.

_________________
Just Stand On It!!!!

Chris


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:09 am 
Offline
Master fabricator
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:55 pm
Posts: 2304
Location: S.W. Pa. Wellsville Water Cooled Chapter
10-4 Chris, no thin skin allowed. I knew that and that's why I said what I said. My new 2.5 Subaru requires me to run 93, not exactly the cheap stuff but compared to race fuel it isn't so bad.

_________________
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
M
A
G
A


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:36 pm 
Offline
WoodsBuggy Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:53 pm
Posts: 3056
Location: Atlanta, GA
I wish mine would run on 93... this 110 stuff is expensive.. Where do you find $8.00 a gallon? I need to go there.

_________________
Woodsbuggy forum is now on the Tapatalk Mobile app... (iPhone, iPad and Android devices)


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:43 pm 
Offline
WB Contributor
User avatar

Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:23 pm
Posts: 1212
Location: Chattanooga Tennessee
fortydegnorth wrote:
The cheapest 87 octane I can find. Nearly 300 hp and probably 25 mpg.


I know that Forty isn't lying I can verify the fuel millage. I use one gallon for every two my buddies air cooled air compressors use.

Mouse I think fuel is cheaper in Tennessee and Kentucky for some reason

_________________
Water Cooled Consortium, Chairman of the Build (Former AC purist)


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:01 pm 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:16 pm
Posts: 711
Location: hayden, al
MickeyMouse wrote:
I wish mine would run on 93... this 110 stuff is expensive.. Where do you find $8.00 a gallon? I need to go there.


the ashville/pell city exit off of I-20 between bham and anniston has 114 for $7.99 a gallon :mrgreen:

_________________
LEGALIZE BLUEGRASS!!!

Save a tree... eat a Beaver


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 7:33 pm 
Offline
WoodsBuggy Addict
User avatar

Joined: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:26 pm
Posts: 3010
Location: GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Go to the airport and get AV gas I ran it for 25 years in all my high compression buggy motors I added a little Marvel mystery oil for cylinder lubricant because it is a dry fuel .When I freshened my engines they always looked good and clean.6 bucks a gal around here.Did I mention I ran it for 25 years


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:28 pm 
Offline
WB Contributor
User avatar

Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:23 pm
Posts: 1212
Location: Chattanooga Tennessee
rockrockets1 wrote:
Go to the airport and get AV gas I ran it for 25 years in all my high compression buggy motors I added a little Marvel mystery oil for cylinder lubricant because it is a dry fuel .When I freshened my engines they always looked good and clean.6 bucks a gal around here.Did I mention I ran it for 25 years


Note: the key to AV gas is top oil, Marvel Mystery Oil

_________________
Water Cooled Consortium, Chairman of the Build (Former AC purist)


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:50 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:13 am
Posts: 256
Location: Atlanta Indiana
I run a "Davis Motorsports" bulit 2276 with 9.7:1 comp.I always buy 93 oct. gas at the pump and I add 1/2 a bottle of "Lucus Oil" Octane booster(a whole bottle treats 60 gal. if i rem correctly) and i have a 11 gal tank i think....Smells like "Buggyjuice" ! 8)


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 37 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

Board index » General » WoodsBuggy Talk

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group