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Premium fuel last longer sitting. You will have worse gas mileage if you use premium in a regular fuel car.
Planes falling from the sky if ok if you don't use lead.
Engine knock retarders can kill them engine when they break. They retard to much and the engine dies. Can't restart it either. Should be used on all private jets owned by eco terrorists.
Good stuff Simon! I liked not only the content but also you nailed the delivery.
Detonation is not the burn happening faster. The problem is the burn started early.
Lead is also a very good lubricant, so LL100 is also great for 2-smokers (like snomobiles).
0:50: 🚗 The octane rating measures a fuel's ability to resist engine knock, which can cause damage to the engine.
2:57: 🔢 The octane rating of fuel indicates its performance compared to a reference fuel, not the actual proportion of octane in the fuel.
5:45: 🔽 The history and dangers of leaded fuel and the transition to ethanol as an octane booster.
8:31: 🛩 The aviation industry still uses leaded gasoline, releasing around 100 tons of lead into the atmosphere every year.
11:23: 🔑 Thomas Midgley Jr. is considered one of the most environmentally destructive individuals in history, responsible for the creation of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and the introduction of leaded gasoline.
Recap by Tammy AI
If you have a high (10+) compression engine use premium, otherwise don't.🤗
Smooooth intro damn man XD
This guy looks like both Michael from Vsauce and Andrew from Basics with Babish
What an education! Thank you so much!
Very good, guys. Don't mind facts being hosed out by Simon at an incredible and articulate rate. As a great mans once said: "Learning all zee time!" But maybe tone down the background music.
Alexa, show me for the millionth time why capitalism fails.
Disaapointed you didn’t go into Diesels, premium diesel , biodiesel etc, considering it’s more widely used globally than petrol.
Wait, you're telling me that the lead contamination problem from gasoline came because they wanted to fucking patent it. Capitalism caused the goddamn lead issue. Every day I find another reason to be a socialist.
Do e30 vs regular gas(e10 15), thanks
Never heard of engine knock…. Lol 😂
I love my manual transmission engine cars but every car needs to be some kind of hybrid to save on fuel and engine maintenance, can still have hybrid manual transmission, just a bit more problen solving is needed
This video incorrectly shows jet-powered aircraft when the speaker is talking about avgas. Avgas is for aircraft that are powered by internal combustion (piston) engines while aircraft powered by gas turbine (jet) engines use jet fuel. Avgas is more similar to gasoline used in cars. On the other hand, jet fuel is more similar to kerosene.
10:16 actually it’s pretty easy to explain. Electric cars will make them more money
A great informative video as always, but the background music this time was WAY too loud to the point of distraction and sometimes having trouble even hearing the narration
A commercial jet was probably not the right stock footage to use for AVGAS since jets and turboprops use a kerosene based fuel.
My old cars get alot better fuel mileage fhe higher the octane. My mx bike also goes heaps better without fouling plugs if use highest l. It won't be long before they real another additive is causing problems like lead. It's all about the money.
Years ago we raced motorcycles at Daytona. The furnished 110 union 76 race gas free ! The Yamaha tz had a little problem with detonation, the 110 octane militates it.
Antique/vintage gasoline engines built before the advent of hardened valve seats (circa 1971) require that a lead substitute be added to the fuel to prevent/reduce erosion of the valve seats. Back in the day, a "valve job" was commonly done on an engine when the valves no longer sealed effectively. Havent' heard of that in many years.
And ethanol is VERY BAD for vintage engines, especially small engines. I made the mistake of dumping some leftover "regular" gasoline, in the tank of my 1950s tractor, and ended up rebuilding the carburetor after the ethanol destroyed the rubber seals. Given that ethanol-free gasoline is pushing $5-$6 USD per gallon, plus the costs of lead substitute and fuel stabilizer, I haven't been using my tractor much. Still, I could buy a LOT of fuel for the cost of a modern compact diesel tractor.
As a Gardener I have been using Petrol in the machines all of my life. In about 2001, I noticed a problem with a machine that I had been using for 5 years. The petrol oil mixture was exactly the same, and the Government had not yet gone public with the announcement that the petrol was being changed from RON95, to E10.
Over the next 2 years, I had changed the 2 stroke oil, purchased new machines, altered the ratio of the petrol and oil, and tried to adjust the carburettor, but I still had the machines stalling when I was using full throttle.
In the end I put Premium petrol, E5, and mixed at 50:1, which was my original mixture, and the machines are working as they were before the change in the formulation of the petrol in the UK. This means that not only has the petrol price gone up, but I have to use the most expensive of the petrol.
My big take away of this is that planes still use leaded fuel. Oof.
Btw as an engine ages and builds carbon deposits it can help reduce knock by going up an octane rating. But don't waste your money if you're not well past 100k miles or had an engine rebuild or cleaning.
I couldn't help but be annoyed at the graphic video at 1:17….
I have seen way too many " experts" try to break down Octane rating. Most all of them are wrong on some level, or in the conclusions that they draw. So fucking overdone…
NZ has three grades. 91, 95, and 98. I get better range and power with 98 but the price doesn't really justify it
Gas or petrol?
ill save you all some time. in modern injected cars there is NO POINT putting in higher octane unless your cars ecu is tuned to run on it.
it depends on what the Owner's manual recommends the car to use unless you're going to be up in higher elevations for winter activities involving snow such as Skiing Snowboarding etc. I.E. most non performance based Cadillac models can run on 87 or 89 Octane but in the performance models like V or V Blackwing the owner's manual recommends premium 93 octane or better which used to be called High test in old days gas started to be unleaded in the early 1970s but wasn't govt mandated to be majority unleaded until the mid-late 90s. my childhood best friend's mom drove a Mercedes Benz S550 Long Wheel Base model most of her driving life over 3 decades and the daughter drives a C63 S Cabriolet Silver/Saddle Brown Nappa Leather