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Old 05-23-2009, 12:10 AM   #17 (permalink)
stevey_frac
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Jalilah - '07 Chevrolet Cobalt LT
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Originally Posted by roflwaffle View Post
All things considered there shouldn't be enough difference to warrant high octane fuel since the effective compression ratio should be pretty low.

I'm more concerned that you accidentally run it lean when your retuning, which is something that promotes heavy knocking. Standard operating procedure is to run race gas (110 octane) when you are tuning a car.
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