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Originally Posted by HUM727
not sure if someone replied yet but the reason ur bike was pinging is cause that gas should not be in your bike, all bikes that i know of, and my sister has that bike, run on premium gas... it may cost 20 cents more butto use 87 u loose fuel economy and performance as well as risk damaging the engine.. figured i share some info on the small amount i know. u might read somewhere that it can take 87 or should.. from my experience that is nothing but bad news
if it wasn't the gas .. the only other reason it would be pinging is sometimes the engine is cold
premium is also much cleaner and on a carburated bike.. that means taking care of the bike much less, cleaning the jets less, and make the spark plugs and valves last just that little bit longer
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I know a thing or two about octane and the like. I tinker with this toy in my spare time
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Turbocharged Buick V6 soon to make about 800hp and 100 more torque
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Go figure... i have a sport motorcycle as a daily driver and a race car as a toy.... does that seem backwards?
The service manual that came with the bike specifies to use 87 octane unleaded fuel.
My bike usually has no problems using 87octane fuel. In fact, most people that own this bike use 87 octane as well without problems. I can do WOT pulls ripping through the gears with no pinging what-so-ever on 87 octane. Sometimes there will be a little bit of water in the gas when the tanks at the station get low. That's probably what happened.
I've used 87 in the bike for 11,000 miles now. Just yesterday i did scheduled maintained on the bike. I pulled the plugs and used a boroscope to look into each cylinder, and the pistons and cylinder walls look great. The spark plugs looked clean as well. No worries here
Octane is a detonation inhibitor, simply put. It's only beneficial if your engine is constantly pinging even under light load, or if you have a high performance engine. It does not make gasoline burn any better, despite what oil companies want you to think.