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Postby markywr1 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:46 pm

When i bought my car off 'Kev 305' he said the car had been mapped to take BP ultimate, having just been on Bob Rawle's website it says one fuel to avoid is BP ultimate, why is that? ive been filling up with it ever since i bought the car.
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Postby Foley » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:41 am

I stick tesco's 99ron mine and it runs fine,

Bp has the lowest ron out them all, tesco99, v-power98, BP97,
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Postby WR1 Bro » Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:40 am

Optimax was 98, V-power is 99 ron as far as I'm aware.
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Postby CAVEMAN » Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:56 am

good news than mate....slap some better fuel in and get it re-mapped
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Postby presa900 » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:07 pm

Yep V-Power is 99 RON, BP has the lowest RON of all the super unleaded fuels as far as I know and less than the 98 RON that Subaru recommend. I used it very occassionally when I had the WR1 and didn't notice any difference, in fact it ran better than when I was forced to fill with Tesco 99 once, don't know whether I got the dreggings at the bottom of their tank but it ran like a big o shit :roll:
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Postby dynamix » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:24 pm

They will run on BP ultimate but changing fuel to vpower or tesco 99 would be better. You shouldnt need to get it remapped for these but if it has been mapped to the BP fuel it would get better performance if the map tweaked to suit the better fuel.
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Postby rocko » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:08 pm

V power all the time bud ... most mapper will tell you the same

dunno what it is about BP .. but ppl sames its pants ..
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Postby Foley » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:30 pm

WR1 Bro wrote:Optimax was 98, V-power is 99 ron as far as I'm aware.


98.8ron v-power :wink:
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Postby markywr1 » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:31 pm

Cheers for the help guys :D i spoke to Powerstation today who did the remap and they said it would be ok to use V-power.
But am gonna get it remapped in a couple of weeks when i have my new headers fitted, RCM recommended Dave Rowe, can anyone 2nd that opinion?
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Postby rocko » Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:15 pm

markywr1 wrote:Cheers for the help guys :D i spoke to Powerstation today who did the remap and they said it would be ok to use V-power.
But am gonna get it remapped in a couple of weeks when i have my new headers fitted, RCM recommended Dave Rowe, can anyone 2nd that opinion?


I sure can .. Dave Mapped mine, Awsome,

What can you say he maps the stopper !

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Postby markywr1 » Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:22 pm

rocko wrote:
markywr1 wrote:Cheers for the help guys :D i spoke to Powerstation today who did the remap and they said it would be ok to use V-power.
But am gonna get it remapped in a couple of weeks when i have my new headers fitted, RCM recommended Dave Rowe, can anyone 2nd that opinion?


I sure can .. Dave Mapped mine, Awsome,

What can you say he maps the stopper !

www.epsmotorsport.com

And what a car :shock:
Cheers Rocko i'll get intouch with Dave :)
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Postby Thomo no 11 » Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:40 pm

just bin up to powerstation today to have my wr1 serviced & wheel allignment done i filled up with bp 4 the 1st time on the way there it ran like the f**king handbrake was still on! v power smooth as u like!
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Postby WR 1mposter » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:35 am

Hi Mark, Dave Rowe will be doing ours too when the build is done,
use V-power everytime only ever put £5 of bp in to get to the next v-power, although I have been informed morrison's bio-ethonal yes the supermarket at £1 lt is getting better results than V-power by about 30bhp :shock: but'll I'll find out again to be sure :lol:
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Postby CAVEMAN » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:40 am

Interesting....wonder what RON the Morrisons stuff is and who makes it?

Here is the inspector sheet link for T99....

http://www.greenergy.com/customer_servi ... ality.html

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Postby markywr1 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:23 pm

WR 1mpostor (aka number 1 moderator) wrote:Hi Mark, Dave Rowe will be doing ours too when the build is done,
use V-power everytime only ever put £5 of bp in to get to the next v-power, although I have been informed morrison's bio-ethonal yes the supermarket at £1 lt is getting better results than V-power by about 30bhp :shock: but'll I'll find out again to be sure :lol:

Hiya Martin hope your well, ive got the car booked in at RCM on tues 8th sept for Dave to map the car :D
Whats the update on your motor?
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Postby rob500 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:12 pm

WR 1mpostor (aka number 1 moderator) wrote:Hi Mark, Dave Rowe will be doing ours too when the build is done,
use V-power everytime only ever put £5 of bp in to get to the next v-power, although I have been informed morrison's bio-ethonal yes the supermarket at £1 lt is getting better results than V-power by about 30bhp :shock: but'll I'll find out again to be sure :lol:
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Postby jimmy » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:19 pm

i always use tesco's 99,i was told bp ultimate was the same a v-power but its obvious that no the case,i'll occasionally use v-power as its a good place to meet fellow subaru drivers and have a chat lol

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Postby WR 1mposter » Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:41 pm

markywr1 wrote:
WR 1mpostor (aka number 1 moderator) wrote:Hi Mark, Dave Rowe will be doing ours too when the build is done,
use V-power everytime only ever put £5 of bp in to get to the next v-power, although I have been informed morrison's bio-ethonal yes the supermarket at £1 lt is getting better results than V-power by about 30bhp :shock: but'll I'll find out again to be sure :lol:

Hiya Martin hope your well, ive got the car booked in at RCM on tues 8th sept for Dave to map the car :D
Whats the update on your motor?


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