What kind of fuel (octane number) for 360?

V-power 98 octane is best, the 100 here in AUS is no good because of the 5% ethanol.

 

A very interested, clever and nice official service manager told me that 100 octans are not pure, they upgrade it from 95 to 97 than to 100.
So in the long run as you can not burn the additives enough the 100 octane can cause some problems.

He advised me to use 95 as it is the purest.
He told me that there will be a slight decrease in power but it will be like 3-4% so i wont feel it. 15hp decrease in 400, i guess he is right.

I am more concerned from the safety of my engine than feeleing the same speed on 5500rpm with 100 octane instead of 6000rpm with 95..
As i almost always drive with sport mode off, when i want some thrill i put it in sport mode and do not feel the decrease at all.

Your choice tho..

cheers.

ps: if you can get a hold of it, i guess in every 3k miles if you fill your tank with 30% race gas and 70% 95, you will feel the difference afterwords.
Ofcourse you will feel a huge decrease when you fill her up next due to lack of race gas, but the engine will be totally refereshed, its like, nothing beets a full breath of fresh air from the alps..

 

In Europe 95 Octane is recommended in the F 360 Manual.

 

wow, would never even consider using 95. people really do that?

 

I use 95 in my F430....no problems.

 

what about octane boosters anyone uses ?

 

I had to use 95 in my 360 once as the 98 pump was out and the car did not like it. It pinked under acceleration and generally ran erratically. Two tankfulls of Shell V-Power later and the car runs fine. I wouldn't recommend 95 going on my experience.

 

Peter, PM if you like. Anytime you are in Prague let me know and we can go through the Strachov tunnel in 2nd gear IN fact I was out past Plzen this weekend, so I could have stopped in.

Anyway, this 95 thing is totally weird. I thought 98 is cleaner fuel for your engine.

 

Shell V-power 93 here.

 

ha yeah here max we have is 93. Im gonna have to assume that means anyone with any car around here runs 93. I live in Maryland

 

I knew that V-Power 100 Octanes and Agip BlueSuper 98 Octanes (here in Italy) are far better than 95 octanes standard fuel,'cause they have also cleaning additives.

Are these additives bad or good for a F-engine?

 

Note that US Octane numbers average RON and MON...
so, those European octane numbers will be higher than US octane numbers.

 

Huh not sure what that means could you explain.

 

Way to make the sponsors happy

 

The manual recommends 95 and that is what the ECU is calibrated for. Running a higher octane number is of no benefit.

 

As I posted earlier, in Europe it's definitely 95 octane, because as M3Mike put it, the ECU's are set for that fuel, and anything is a waste of money and possibly damaging over a long period of usage.

The Porsches are electronically capable of adapting their settings to different fuels.

 

Yes, I remember reading about that in my Porsche manual, something like the"knocking" changes if you put in 98 or 95. I have been tanking up with 98, so I will fill up with 95 next time. Still find it weird though