Knock isn't the problem anyway is it? Don't you run premium to prevent
preignition (ping)?
I was talking to a guy last week who drove some kind of tweaked out BMW that
required premium. He was telling me that once he'd put in mid by mistake and
got exactly 1 mile down the road before it started pinging like crazy at
greater than 2000 rpm. He slowly limped it to an autoparts store and fed it a
couple bottles of octane boost. He bought more bottles and took off. He said it
took like 4 bottles of whatever kind of booster he'd bought until the thing
started acting normalish but it wasn't completely right until he ran a couple
tanks of premium through.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:26:53 -0700
From: Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Wife's Bud's '85 380SL For Sale...Still
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> The 380 was anemic - you need the 560.
Mine's not all that bad. But it's no 560, either.
Our 560's all claim to need premium, but I've never tried
regular. I know for a fact that our 250C absolutely requires
premium. When I got it I didn't know, but it pinged like
a SOB, even on mid-grade.
> The knock sensors in the 80's were not as sophisticated as
> they are now.
Perhaps not. But the 560 SL doesn't have any knock sensor.
-- Jim
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