Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:03:20 +0000
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From: Marius Strom <marstrom@MICROSOFT.COM>
Subject: Re: Techron
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I've been tracking for the past 3 months the various fuel suppliers/octanes/ethanol blends that I put in my 88 Westy full camper. Here's some info.. I've got Shell 87 in the tank now and should have an initial read of that one in a week or two. :)
Date
Fuel Supplier
Octane
Miles In
Trip
Gallons
Miles/Gallon
4/1/2010
Unknown
Unknown
213,771
225.3
14.059
16.0253
4/26/2010
Chevron
87
214,003
231.9
13.861
16.7304
5/2/2010
Union 76
87
214,230
227.3
12.855
17.6818
5/23/2010
Chevron
87
214,452
222.0
12.630
17.5772
5/29/2010
Chevron
87
214,640
187.2
10.526
17.7845
6/10/2010
Chevron
87
214,858
218.5
12.803
17.0663
6/11/2010
Union 76
87
215,053
194.6
10.074
19.3171
6/12/2010
Conoco
87 E10
215,234
180.6
9.508
18.9945
6/13/2010
Conoco
87
215,441
207.2
10.454
19.8202
6/14/2010
Chevron
87
215,639
197.9
10.671
18.5456
And the summary table:
Row Labels
Average of Miles/Gallon
Chevron
17.54080575
87
17.54080575
Union 76
18.49944483
87
18.49944483
Unknown
16.02532186
Unknown
16.02532186
Conoco
19.40734773
87
19.82016453
87 E10
18.99453092
Now, granted, fuel economy is one indicator of "runs best", but Conoco 87 is clearly in the lead for our Westy.
Arco - I refuse to go anywhere near that stuff. On our Prius, we usually average around 48-50.. I filled up Arco in it one time, and economy dropped to 42-44 for the next three tanks of gas.. Avoiding that stuff like the plague.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of craig cowan
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:21 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Techron
"I find BP gasoline (and all their oil products) to be the best on the market."
Ready....
GO!
(Running away with a smerk on my face)
-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
BOSTIG in the back
(The truth is, I can run any gasoline or ethanol product just fine. I'm now indifferent. I am however somewhat anti BP for the last 50 or so days...)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Annie <lsandrsn@gmail.com<mailto:lsandrsn@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I've noticed that in mine too - 76 gas makes it run poorly, indeed. I
> have good luck with Shell or Arco (believe it or not). Never tried
> Chevron so I can't answer that, at least for the Vanagon. But it made
> my Acura and my Subaru run poorly.
>
> Be blessed,
> ~Annie
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Jake de Villiers <
> crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com<mailto:crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Whereas I've put gas from 76 stations in three different Vanagons
> > and had them run very poorly indeed.
> >
> > We no longer put that kind of gas in our vans.
> >
> > Jake
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net<mailto:tombuese@comcast.net>> wrote:
> >
> > > Not trying to start a flame war here, but I swear that my buses
> > > run better when I run Chevron gas w/ the techron in it.
> > >
> > > YMMV,
> > >
> > > Mr. BZ-no scientific data to back up claim
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jun 16, 2010, at 10:57 PM, Tabe Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > So Techron is the cat's meow... Is there a reference for a study
> > >> showing this, or is it just "everyone knows that Techron actually
> > >> works and nothing else does"?
> > >>
> > >> tabe johnson/90mv
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jake
> >
> > 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
> > 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
> >
> > Crescent Beach, BC
> >
> > www.thebassspa.com<http://www.thebassspa.com>
> > www.crescentbeachguitar.com<http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
> > http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
> >
>
