My University in 5th Gear :)

gurusan · 5 Oct 2007 at 15:39

5th Gear - Octane Boosters put to the test

My uni is becoming famous! wee

And our new technology building is lookin good as well.

Lashout_UK · 5 Oct 2007 at 15:44

Good effort!

Shame it didn't tell us anything we didn't know already

iBot · 5 Oct 2007 at 15:44

God clarksons died his hair blonde .

gurusan · 5 Oct 2007 at 15:46

Lashout_UK said:
Good effort!

Shame it didn't tell us anything we didn't know already

hopefully those who shell out money for these products learned something though

caeteez · 5 Oct 2007 at 15:56

Is Oxford Brookes any good? Specifically their business courses, or are you not in the know about that? Cheers.

gurusan · 5 Oct 2007 at 15:57

Sorry, no idea.... For engineering it's great though.

Great party school too

penski · 5 Oct 2007 at 16:36

I got knocked out stone cold by a ***** while crashing at a (female) Oxford Brookes student's room in halls...

It was a long bus ride out of town to get there...I abused the free net access and blagged food too.

Was there to see Pitchshifter, earthtone9 and (to a lesser extent) Lostprophets...

*n

MrSix · 5 Oct 2007 at 16:38

penski said:
Was there to see Pitchshifter, earthtone9 and (to a lesser extent) Lostprophets...

*n

Blasphemer...Lostprophets are the best.

penski · 5 Oct 2007 at 16:47

MrSix said:
Blasphemer...Lostprophets are the best.

They're nobs, they stole my pint.

*n

poosemon · 5 Oct 2007 at 16:53

trouble with that is that experiment was the rover k-series engines are known not to respond to higher octanes as they dont have an octane sensor (? or somthing similar) as some cars do, so they dont respond the optimax type fuels......

Dogbreath · 5 Oct 2007 at 17:09

gurusan said:
hopefully those who shell out money for these products learned something though

Can't really learn anything as it's a typical 5th Gear half assed test. They used a nearly bottom of the range single point injected K series which has no facility to optimise igntion timing. Are people driving Rover Metros and base spec 200's really likely to be shelling out £5-£20 on fuel additives anyway?

Why didn't they used a turbocharged engine that had an adaptive ECU?

caeteez · 5 Oct 2007 at 17:12

Dogbreath said:
Can't really learn anything as it's a typical 5th Gear half assed test. They used a nearly bottom of the range single point injected K series which has no facility to optimise igntion timing. Are people driving Rover Metros and base spec 200's really likely to be shelling out £5-£20 on fuel additives anyway?

Why didn't they used a turbocharged engine that had an adaptive ECU?

££££

M0T · 5 Oct 2007 at 17:12

poosemon said:
trouble with that is that experiment was the rover k-series engines are known not to respond to higher octanes as they dont have an octane sensor (? or somthing similar) as some cars do, so they dont respond the optimax type fuels......

They are lacking the knock sensor which retards/advances ignition dependant on fuel octane rating, plus this was a single point injected unit which is hardly going to being particularly responsive to anything anyway.

I would have thought the difference would have come from using it in a well worn engine that may be full of gunk that needed cleaning out - thus giving more power.

MrSix · 5 Oct 2007 at 17:25

penski said:
They're nobs, they stole my pint.

*n

Pfft, you shouldn't have left it long enough to be stolen.

lordrobs · 5 Oct 2007 at 18:44

I'd have been more interested if they actually measured the octane rating of the fuel after using the aditives, the power they make on a single engine means nowt to me.