Adding to Performance

What I find the most interesting is how it effects the engine oil... because we all know that our singles replenish the oil they burn with fuel...
 
Nope, it really does what it does...

Example: when BASF makes the "indigo blue" for jeans and the valued employees of your favorite clothing manufacturer pour that color in their wash machine... and then at one point many months later when they land on the shelf of your trusted retailer, you consider buying those very jeans which are in fact advertised as being blue, and which look pretty blue to the naked eye.
Do you question whether those jeans actually are blue?
 
Fuels already have detergents to keep the engine clean. Especially the premium fuels most major manufacturers produce.

If engines needed more than that, it would be mentioned in owners manuals.

It's a great business though. Just like "performance" air filters, oil additives...
 
Actually, that is infact the additive which is used to punch fuels from 98 to 100+ octane at name brand gas stations, just in the can and not out of the pump.
 
Name me one additive that punches fuel from 98 to 100+.... (they typically "punch" the knock resistance up by 0.3 points). Which you won't notice, and you engine doesn't need. Also, higher octane != more power.....
 
So, as their are only like 2 chemical companies in the world, I would be lead to believe that either one or both of those companies' quality additives will be found in your fuel too.
 
Max Kool said:
Yeah, but I’m not wasting money on bottles of additives…
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To each his own... I know alot more people who waste money on bottles of whiskey they just pour into their cola...

stroem said:
Regardless on if the additives actually adjust the octane rating significantly, higher octane does nothing for performance unless the engine is tuned for it.
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...aside from the "snake oil" properties @Max Kool mentioned above, its the fact that a good additive will effect the emissions and as such will provide a measurable change to any car which has emissions control systems.
 
My car can detect if I am running 87 or 91 (or better). It adjusts timing accordingly. If I put in 93, or 100, it runs the same timing. Running a high octane than what the engine was designed for does nothing.

These bikes were designed for 91 AKI octane. It can't adjust tor higher octane
 
BISavage said:
the fact that a good additive will effect the emissions and as such will provide a measurable change to any car which has emissions control systems.
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The additives your engine needs to run healthy are already in the fuel you buy at the gas station, and I have yet to see any independent report that confirms throwing this bottled stuff in your car or motorcycle provides a measurable change..
 
Well, as consumers, our engines needs to run healthy until just after their expected life has ended so that they are repaired or replaced.

I personally do like to measure my performance, and I do measure a difference, albeit under my own "laboratory" conditions.

And either way the 401 is an excellent test subject, especially if I consider the plastic part I changed on my car engine last time cost more than a whole 373 engine, new from HQV.

My hypothesis is that on top of a difference in fuel quantity used/distance, I will notice the use of the additive on the engagement of my rekluse at a certain point between oil changes.
 
(On a side note) I havent treid additives in any of my other vehicles... most of which have blown a motor or turbo or... at least once...
 
stroem said:
These bikes were designed for 91 AKI octane. It can't adjust tor higher octane
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Exactly, the stock bike runs best on the fuel listed in the book it came with.

If you want to use better fuel it needs to get tuned for that fuel. (Dont they make cars that even come with a switch, or bikes that can be jumpered for different fuels?)
 
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