I’ll be honest, I’ve almost always been a cheap gas person. I get whatever is cheap and available, unless I’m talking about fuel for something special. And I only run the minimum octane that I can get away with based on the combo and how we’re using it. For example, on a drag and drive where we are just driving down the highway, we’d run 87 or 89 in our 9.5-1 compression small block. If we were at the track, we’d replace that with the appropriate race gas or E85 for our combo. No big deal. Even my 1987 Chevrolet dually tow pig, with two tanks, gets different fuel based on what I’m doing with it. Normally it has 87 octane in the driver’s side tank, and 91 in the passenger side tank. That way I drive it unloaded on 20 gallons of 87, and if I’m towing I used the tank full of 91. If I was driving far with the trailer, then clearly I’d use both tanks for the premium fuel, or if I was driving it far unloaded I’d use both for 87.

But what about those people that always run premium fuel in their car or truck? Is there any good reason to do that? Is premium fuel actually better for your engine? Lake Speed is going to talk to us about it in the video below. Is it octane? Is it additives? Could you run cheap gas and then an additive?

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Video Description:

Which one is more important to the health of your engine – the quality of your motor oil or the quality of your fuel? Let’s see what the research and engine testing says…

In this video we highlight the findings from research studies from Southwest Research in the US and AC2T in Austria. These leading Tribology test labs have published some amazing findings that might make you rethink brand loyalties.

In both research studies, special engines were used to test the affects of fuel chemistry on engine wear. That’s right, engine wear! The choice of fuel impacts engine wear, and the results shown in this video prove it out using proper analytical tools such as:

Radiation Tracers: Learn how cutting-edge technology uses radiation for identifying engine wear patterns.

Scanning Electron Microscopes: Discover the microscopic level of detail we go into to analyze wear and tear.

Used Oil Analysis: See the hard data from our detailed analysis, highlighting the importance of fuel quality.

This unique combination of scientific tools and methods provides irrefutable evidence that fuel quality plays a pivotal role in engine longevity., which correlates to our real world experience with used oil analysis results. This also makes a strong case for the use of fuel additives…

To learn about used oil analysis, check out https://www.speediagnostix.com

For more about Southwest Research, check out https://www.swri.org

For more about AC2T Research, check out https://www.ac2t.at/en/