Anybody know, have hard facts, or just hearsay?

i like sunoco but i use any gas. so far no problems

76 has 100 Octane at the pump

I try to use Sunoco, cause they have 94. If I had a 76 around here, I'd use that (after my car is done). BUt I DEFINETELY stay away from Sheetz, having had friends work there, I know that (at least in PA) their gas is super low-quality. Especially Their premium. Who ever heard of 92 anyway??? I just love 94, so, um yeah. Sunoco

Out of the choices here, I go for shell or chevron.

yeah, chevron sounds about right. But I have one of those kroger card things!! Gets me like 4 cents off gas!!!!! Crap....I am getting ripped off arent' I .....

I'm reasonably certain all petroleum companies are required by the government to meet the same stardards of fuel refinement (octane). The only differences are in the additives.

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I've been told Amoco and Sunoco have the best quality gas by a ford engineer, he said it was based on some research ford did. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/cool.png

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ive heard chevron has very consistant quality, but thats older info



mike

so nobody really knows?

I heard something about Shell causing a problem with one of their additives, offering people with damaged engines hush up cash.



I never fill up there, but one of my co-workers filled up at Shell and got bad detonation in his Cherokee. Next tank somewhere else and no detonation.



From what I've heard Sunoco has the best quality and highest octane around here, that's all I put in my own car.

Some mornings I have really good gas... usually after major sporting events watched at BW3's...

i only use chevron in mine. its suppose to have additives that clean the gunk out of your engine which you have a lot of in a rotary.

Ok here you go... Like someone said all gas is the same, it's the amount and mixture of addative that varies. I speak from experience. My shop is also a Texaco so I know the in's and out's of the topic. Obviously the higher the octane the better for a performance vehicle. The only real differance is those "no name" stations.

This is how they get their gas. All the major companies will not distribute their "bottom of the tank" gas becouse all the crap settles at the bottom, so theese cheap stations get their gas from companies who buy the "bottom of the barrel" gas, mix it all up from every company and sell it to the cheap places!

Assuming that the stations aren't using old tanks with crap floating about... or deliberately attempting to "water down" their gas in some way, the only difference is in the additive packages.



To make a long story short, my understanding of the situation is that gas is pumped into the big pipelines by all suppliers and that gives them a "credit" to take the same amount out at the other end of the pipe. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that there is some significant mixing of the gas which might have started out from Texaco or Exxon or whoever. The additive package is put in at a local distribution plant owned by each company.



In other words they don't all have their own pipelines all over the whole USA... they share one pipe and add their "secret sauce" additives just before delivery to the stations.



That being said, I like to stick with any of the major brands like Exxon/Mobil, Texaco, etc. I also like to get my gas at as few different stations as possible so that I am minimizing the chances of stopping at some oddball station with really crappy gas and getting engine damage.

I drop Shell into the tempo.

well this is a point to N/A. I'd have to be putting in almost pure heptane to get detonation. I fill at amoco, never had a bad experience. My dad got some really bad gas from Texaco a while ago, so I never go there.

I would piss in my stepfathers disiel benz. he thought the 76 down the street kept giving him shitty gas. he would always go down there and complain

i got some really bad gas from taco bell the other day



mike

u and seth, well not seth anymore, eat too much taco bell

Bad gas blows..

heh, yeah us in the NA's try find the lowest octane possible, wheres the shittiest gas at?

sunoco is always my choice whenever possible



kevin.

i maintain sunoco as it offers the highest octane at the pump...

ninety four..

ive found after a cross country drive from ca to nj that..

west of texas only had 92 as their highest to offer...

at least...from the stations available from the path chosen....

Amaco or aka BP

100 octane @ 76, Must be a East Coast thing.



Best we have is 92 here in the NW. Including 76



And best of all (NOT) in the winter we get some gasahol crap to reduce emissions... and make your car run like CRAP.

There are only three places that the stations can go to get their gas, after that it's up to them to process it. It used to be that one of the three refeineries made a lower quality cheaper product that citgo used (7-11) but I think they stopped that. Mostly it's all the same, some companies process it differently after the fact.



Dad worked in the gas pump/tank industry for 8 or 9 years is how I know. There may be more changes to it all now.



No one has old tanks, everyone had to change them about 5 years ago if the tank was older then a certain amount.



76 makes a race fuel they used to put on the streets, there was also a company named Tric racing that had some stations. And Hudson Brothers, those stations are long gone.