Gas $17.96 a US gallon!

[rh71]

Those damn SUVs! Oh wait.

 

[KentState]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Mmm, for a car that probably gets no more than 5-10 miles a gallon.

Say a NASCAR gets 10 mpg. For the Daytona 500, that's 50 gallons. At $18 per gallon, that'll be $900 for the entire race! WOW!!

I'm sure when you are spending millions a year on your racing program, the cost of gas is nothing. They can through $20k in tires each race.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: purbeast0
how much is it for a EU gallon?

wtf is an eu gallon?

google convert tells me 1 US gallon apparently equals 0.83 Imperial gallons.
WTF is up with the same unit having 2 different volumes?
apparently US changed the ounce measurement, and how many ounces were in a pint (20 imperial ounces in an imperial pint, and standard numbers from there up to gallon (8 pints in gallon). One of their ounces is apparently a little more than a US ounce too.
hmm, we completely said screw you UK in yet another thing. Go us! Take that Britons!

 

[Syringer]

Damnit, guess that'll hold me off of buying a Ferrari for a while..

 

[SlowSpyder]

The track in town sells 112 octane for about $5/gallon. It's leaded though. You can get 100 octane unleaded for a bit more then $4/gallon there as well. I doubt the extra 2 octane points are really worth $14 more a gallon.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
A 90RON 102MON ends up being a 96 octane by the US way of listing it.

http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...dFuels/Sunoco260GT.htm
...that's 95/105 and street legal But it runs between $300 and $400/barrel.

Other way around, but I guess your still correct (Extract from product page):

Research Octane Number (RON) of 102 and Motor Octane Number (MON) of 90.

EDIT: That stuff in your link is insane!

You should see the 104 octane (US rating, 109/99 RON/MON) race gas that you can buy from Sunoco at the local track. Sadly, it's not street-legal (though it is unleaded).

ZV

 

[aplefka]

You're the equivalent of a tabloid journalist for the title of this thread and the content that followed.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
A 90RON 102MON ends up being a 96 octane by the US way of listing it.

http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...dFuels/Sunoco260GT.htm
...that's 95/105 and street legal But it runs between $300 and $400/barrel.

Other way around, but I guess your still correct (Extract from product page):

Research Octane Number (RON) of 102 and Motor Octane Number (MON) of 90.

EDIT: That stuff in your link is insane!

You should see the 104 octane (US rating, 109/99 RON/MON) race gas that you can buy from Sunoco at the local track. Sadly, it's not street-legal (though it is unleaded).

ZV

This stuff?
http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...ls/Sunoco260GTPlus.htm

...I was only counting street legal

If you wanted to go leaded you could get some silly stuff:
http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...ionalFuels/Maximal.htm

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
A 90RON 102MON ends up being a 96 octane by the US way of listing it.

http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...dFuels/Sunoco260GT.htm
...that's 95/105 and street legal But it runs between $300 and $400/barrel.

Other way around, but I guess your still correct (Extract from product page):

Research Octane Number (RON) of 102 and Motor Octane Number (MON) of 90.

EDIT: That stuff in your link is insane!

You should see the 104 octane (US rating, 109/99 RON/MON) race gas that you can buy from Sunoco at the local track. Sadly, it's not street-legal (though it is unleaded).

ZV

This stuff?
http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...ls/Sunoco260GTPlus.htm

...I was only counting street legal

If you wanted to go leaded you could get some silly stuff:
http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...ionalFuels/Maximal.htm

Was more a response to DbZ's comment about it being insane.

Too bad the only place I can get 260 GT (the street-legal blend) is at the track. No other Sunoco stations in WA.

ZV

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
The track in town sells 112 octane for about $5/gallon. It's leaded though. You can get 100 octane unleaded for a bit more then $4/gallon there as well. I doubt the extra 2 octane points are really worth $14 more a gallon.

Actually it's 96octane not 102. You have to take (Ron+Mon)/2
102+90/2=96, hardly better than the 95 we get everywhere in America

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
The track in town sells 112 octane for about $5/gallon. It's leaded though. You can get 100 octane unleaded for a bit more then $4/gallon there as well. I doubt the extra 2 octane points are really worth $14 more a gallon.

Actually it's 96octane not 102. You have to take (Ron+Mon)/2
102+90/2=96, hardly better than the 95 we get everywhere in America

We don't get 95 everywhere in America.

Best I can get here in WA is 92, there was one (1) station selling 93 but they stopped about 6 months ago and now only have 92 like everyone else. The best people in CA can get is 91.

Back home in Ohio where Sunoco is prevalent I could get 94 easily, but few places had 95 octane.

ZV

 

[Tempered81]

man with a toyota prius, I could fill up a gas can with 3 gallons of that 18 dollar ferrari gas and drive it from LA to NY on 60 bucks worth of walmart gas. with a ferrari, i could fill up on ferrari gas for $2,000 and go play golf all day or something. Decisions.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
The track in town sells 112 octane for about $5/gallon. It's leaded though. You can get 100 octane unleaded for a bit more then $4/gallon there as well. I doubt the extra 2 octane points are really worth $14 more a gallon.

Actually it's 96octane not 102. You have to take (Ron+Mon)/2
102+90/2=96, hardly better than the 95 we get everywhere in America

We don't get 95 everywhere in America.

Best I can get here in WA is 92, there was one (1) station selling 93 but they stopped about 6 months ago and now only have 92 like everyone else. The best people in CA can get is 91.

Back home in Ohio where Sunoco is prevalent I could get 94 easily, but few places had 95 octane.

ZV

I have heard California and the western states only get 91 or 92 but I never figured out why. I've lived in NY, PA, MD, VA, IL and it's been nothing but 95.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
A 90RON 102MON ends up being a 96 octane by the US way of listing it.

http://www.sunocoinc.com/Site/...dFuels/Sunoco260GT.htm
...that's 95/105 and street legal But it runs between $300 and $400/barrel.

Other way around, but I guess your still correct (Extract from product page):

Research Octane Number (RON) of 102 and Motor Octane Number (MON) of 90.

EDIT: That stuff in your link is insane!

You should see the 104 octane (US rating, 109/99 RON/MON) race gas that you can buy from Sunoco at the local track. Sadly, it's not street-legal (though it is unleaded).

ZV

Yea that's the stuff we use in our race car. Unless the track we're at that weekend is selling VP fuel, then we use VP MS103.

 

[HannibalX]

Jet fuel. Nothing new. People been using this in race cars since, well, I don't know - at least the 50s.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: destrekor
WTF is up with the same unit having 2 different volumes?

No good reason. The US just bastardizes international standards by shifting numbers around randomly simply to piss of the world.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
The track in town sells 112 octane for about $5/gallon. It's leaded though. You can get 100 octane unleaded for a bit more then $4/gallon there as well. I doubt the extra 2 octane points are really worth $14 more a gallon.

Actually it's 96octane not 102. You have to take (Ron+Mon)/2
102+90/2=96, hardly better than the 95 we get everywhere in America

We don't get 95 everywhere in America.

Best I can get here in WA is 92, there was one (1) station selling 93 but they stopped about 6 months ago and now only have 92 like everyone else. The best people in CA can get is 91.

Back home in Ohio where Sunoco is prevalent I could get 94 easily, but few places had 95 octane.

ZV

I have heard California and the western states only get 91 or 92 but I never figured out why. I've lived in NY, PA, MD, VA, IL and it's been nothing but 95.

I lived in PA for 4 years (Pittsburgh). Never saw anything above 94 and most places were 93.

 

[imported_Baloo]

It amuses me octane ratings of 102, 105 etc. The octane scale only goes to 100, anything over that number is just an arbitrary number. They could says it's 200 and be just as accurate.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yeah, Look, it's not 'Ferrari gas', it's just F1 spec fuel, 102 UK octane madness. It appears you also have Track gas at regular pumps.

Eff it, one tanks worth a try, right?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Edit: need caffine

no. need spell check.