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texanidiot25 · 04-26-2010, 02:16 AM

Timing belt is being changed this week, just bought it Saturday. Needs a lot of tune up work. Plugs, cap and rotor, timing belt, and a carb rebuild kit.

I wasn't sure if they were intended to run on premium or not, or if the archaic ECU (if any) detected such changes in octane. It's a combination of factors it seems contributing to the poor drivability, I just don't know if this is one of them.

Fuel for the confusion:
http://www.automobilemag.com/green/r...rid_sedan.html

Notes the HF uses premium. I do not have the car with me ATM to check the owner manual either.

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texanidiot25 Master EcoModder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 331 Formula - '96 Firebird Formula/Trans-Am 90 day: 19.31 mpg (US) Thanks: 8 Thanked 31 Times in 18 Posts	Timing belt is being changed this week, just bought it Saturday. Needs a lot of tune up work. Plugs, cap and rotor, timing belt, and a carb rebuild kit. I wasn't sure if they were intended to run on premium or not, or if the archaic ECU (if any) detected such changes in octane. It's a combination of factors it seems contributing to the poor drivability, I just don't know if this is one of them. Fuel for the confusion: http://www.automobilemag.com/green/r...rid_sedan.html Notes the HF uses premium. I do not have the car with me ATM to check the owner manual either. __________________ Lets see how far it can go "All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. [...] But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for the same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours." -Sonny's Blues