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Old Jun 23, 2008 | 05:19 PM
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Default Re: 100 Octane VS 91 Octane

I used to do two tank fulls of 100 octane when im doing a track day. First tank to get ECU to adjust and second tank is for day of road racing.

I stopped doing this after the track day I did with Timelord, HDDP, and X'ed at Cal Speedway.

During a session, X'ed was behind me and when we hit the oval where you normally go WOT, he said that a big cloud of black smoke (guessing carbon build up) came out of my exhaust. I assumed this was carbon build up from running rich.

So question is, does running on higher octane on a regular basis cause your engine to run rich thus the carbon build-up?
 
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