You Aussies get nicer cars, I believe the WRX sold in australia has much more aggressive tuning than the one in the US because of the availability of higer octane gas and less onerous polution laws, hardware wise the the US model gets a cat pre turbo other than that the only diff is the tune......and the japan/australian model generates 25 to 35 more hp
On 8/18/05, Tony Antoniou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only one problem with ethanol ... crap energy density compared to petroleum. > I'm sticking to Shell Optimax premium fuel thanks to its turbo friendly > additives. > > Besides which, our cars here in Australia at least can't handle anything > more than 10% ethanol in our petrol as it results in engine and fuel system > damage. It has been documented for some time here. I'd like to see how your > cars can survive on ethanol yet ours suffer. Must be something in the > engineering of the engines and fuel systems that the ethanol otherwise > attacks in our systems. > > > Adios, > Tony > > --------------- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff.lane > Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2005 6:44 > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices > > Hell, we can grow ethanol. Read the stars, guys, we are getting screwed! The > > oil companies have been crying for years that oil prices are way behind > inflation. I say, so what! I thought the idea was to keep inflation down in > the first place. The Government needs to include fuel and food in the > inflation indicators. Of course, if they do prime interest rates would be at > > 50% or more by now! > > > > -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
