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I'm Ethanol free and no more lag for me!

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Old 04-30-15, 08:22 AM
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Default I'm Ethanol free and no more lag for me!

I'm on my first Ethanol free tank and I am astounded with the lag free performance.
My local Delta Sonic just installed Ethanol free pumps with 91 octane. The price is the highest per Gal ($3.29 in Rochester NY with reg selling for $2.65) but well worth it as the car is running like a 4.3L V8 !
Gas mileage is maybe 2 MPG higher but this is the first tank so I will monitor this.
Do your self a favor, if you can find Ethanol free gas try it
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So you didn't do anything else to get rid of the lag other than change to ethanol free? Congrats.
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If it really worked, I'm game to try it. I think locally only Phillip 66 has ethanol free gas?
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Ha $3.29 is about what regular 87 octane goes for here in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Originally Posted by Harold57
So you didn't do anything else to get rid of the lag other than change to ethanol free? Congrats.
I made sure the tank was almost empty, then filled up. That's it.

Just going by the AVG MPG gauge I'm getting 2.7 MPG increase so far.
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