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The revolutionary high-octane fuel is designed specifically for motor sport enthusiasts and is a dream come true for a tuned engine. It meets the same high spec of fuels used in F1 racing and the World Rally Championships.
It gets its name from its octane number of 102 and was designed to allow highly tuned engines to perform at their best. It also fully complies with BS:EN228 which is the UK specification for unleaded petrol - meaning it can be used legally on the road.
The exclusive fuel is ´hand made´ in small batches at BP´s speciality fuels technology centre in the UK.
BP Ultimate 102 unleaded is currently under trial at 6 sites across the UK, adding another 3 in June. If demand for the fuel is strong, BP will consider making it more widely available. A specialist fuel, the cost is £2.42 a litre but BP are confident that the motor sport enthusiasts this fuel is aimed at will welcome the chance to buy fuel of this type.
See
www.carkeys.co.uk/news/2006/april/24/9841.asp
And
www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=219604
says
If you fancy emptying your pockets and filling up with Ultimate 102 you can find it at the following fuel stations:
Tudor filling station, A20, Allington
Chicheley Park, Tickford Street, Newport Pagnell
Wavendon Gate, Newport Road, Wavendon
All Saints, Commercial Road, Portsmouth
Newbury Centre, 758 Eastern Avenue, Ilford
Newham Way service station, Newham Way, Canning town
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To utilise this type of fuel the compression ration and timing would have to be changed. The timing may be adaptive in the ECU but you can not change the compression ration. Good game but this fuel is only intended for high performance, high rpb, high boost chunks of metal. Regards Peter
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If thats what they spend their profits on,I wont buy from them,what a waste of money!
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Steve
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Shame they said it was impossible to come up with 100 or 99 octane fuel when people (like me) actually needed it...
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Shame they said it was impossible to come up with 100 or 99 octane fuel when people (like me) actually needed it...
Just buy Avgas from your local airfield 100 octane IIRC and costs around £1.50 a litre when I last looked.
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Was Charles {P} but someone c o p i e d my name with spaces.
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Modern ECU controlled engines will be able to benefit from this because the higher octane will be recognised by the ECU as less knock thus the ECU will optimise ignition timing, advance injection timing, turbo boost (where applicable) even valve timing on some engines so power and efficiency will improve.
Great for track days, weekend blasts on a R6, F4-1000 etc, and no problem it you can afford an F430, GT40, Veyron etc.
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Only £2.42? How much do they pay for the hellbrews they use in F1?
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Dunno, but I learned today that the fuel that the SR-71 Blackbird used was more expensive per litre than premium whiskey. And it leaked all over the runway. And it exploded rather easily.
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So how much of that £2.42 is tax?
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IanS
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this is great news for my citroen ax---i need better performance
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The SR71 used an unusually high grade aviation fuel - JP7 - made specially for it. The fuel tanks did indeed leak: the fuselage heated up so much in flight that, on the ground, the metal contracted enough for the seams to open.
Meanwhile, the MIG25 overcame the same problem by the simple expedient of having double skinned tanks - an inner tank that was perfectly sealed in flight, and an outer tank that was perfectly sealed on the ground.
Returning to motoring , there's the cautionary tale of an airport employee who, in the days of leaded petrol, tried running his car on 100LL (low-lead) rather than four star. He covered about 500 yards before the engine expired through a combination of overheating and ferocius pinking...
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The last figure I heard mentioned on the cost of F1 fuel around two years ago was around £10 litre.I shall try and find out.
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