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Old 09-13-2007, 01:04 AM
mpolli mpolli is offline
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Originally Posted by TheEngineer View Post
If you use premium you should get about 2 more MPG. It's supposed to have more energy content.
WRONG!!! This is the oldest of old wives tales. Octane is a measure of knock resistance ONLY!!

Mike
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