I take back everything I said I knew about cars

[Dr_Snooz]

Next challenge; Auto-tranny rebuild or bottom-end rebuild (lol, I hope not anytime soon...)

MT swap?

[niles]

I've thought about it, but LXi is all about luxury lol

[derolph]

low octane fuel:
I only run premium; which I heard can also cause carbon buildup due to unburnt additives. Our cars are spec'd for 91 octane.

Where did you get this notion? The user's manual for my 88 LX-i says to use 86 octane or higher. I've always used 87 octane, or "regular". Using a higher octane is usually a waste of money.

[niles]

Where did you get this notion? The user's manual for my 88 LX-i says to use 86 octane or higher. I've always used 87 octane, or "regular". Using a higher octane is usually a waste of money.

Thank you derolph, I always like making sure I get my facts straight. I know this topic has been debated before, so I checked the mauals on 3geez.wiki-tv.com to confirm my statement.

At luch I am going to check my personal manual in my glovebox, and I think there is also a sticker on my hood I will check to confirm.

Here is what the manuals say:

[derolph]

Again:

The user's manual for my 88 LX-i says to use 86 octane or higher.

[niles]

You're correct derolph. My manuals say antiknock index of 86, which is equal to 91 research octane. I have two 87 LXi manuals and they're both worded slightly different lol.

So now I'm reading up on what the differences are, which countries report what octane at the pump, and what the Cost of Living Council has got to do with it all...

[Dr_Snooz]

My brother had an '84 CRX. He insisted that using anything less than 91 (actually 92 at that time) would void the factory warranty. I never saw that in writing though.

My sister claimed that she could tell the difference between different grades and brands of gas in how her '86 3g and her '89 (which I now own) would drive. What can I say? She had great taste in cars! Anyway, according to her, they both liked Chevron 91 best.

[niles]

Well I just had a great read over at Wikipedia, and the pumps in the US show the antiknock index. So I've been misinterpreting the ratings. I've been running premium when I should've been running regular.

I've been using premium to battle my detonation problem. But now that I've replaced my head, the car runs so much better. So I'll reduce the octane unless the detonation comes back.

Edit: According to the one shop manual, premium is fine. Just throwin' that out there.