Shell V-Power in a bike

DonkeyRhubarb

I never bought V-Power for my car, because per 70 litre fill, it just cost too much extra.

Now that I have a bike, it only takes 12 litres to fill and would only work out about 70 cent extra per fill.

Can it even be used IN a bike? Would there be any benefit to it?

:p:)

Pigeon Reaper

I think it's slightly higher octane. I know some people use it in their bikes without any negative effects I don't think it will make much difference unless you change the ignition timing to make use of the higher octane. In reality I doubt you'd notice a difference on the road.

DonkeyRhubarb

I just did some reading on it and found that in Germany, its octane 100, but in Ireland, its the same octane. (95). It keeps your engine clean apparently? Seems like a load of marketing, but has anyone first hand experience with this fuel?

Potential-Monke

My brother uses it every now and again, and he notices a definite increase in acceleration and speed... Same in a car, it just helps the car to run better. Cleans the engine while drivng too. If you're bike/car is sluggish, wait till the the petrol's nearly gone, put in about a tenner of v-power, and clean the engine, benefits are almost immediate.

I think.

daveyj

It's 95RON petrol with detergents added. Huge taxing on fuel of over 95 octane in Ireland prohibits its financial viability and so none of our petrochemical retailers import it. The last of the high octane was phased out sometime around 2002 if memory serves... So you should see no power gains, but you will get nice clean fuel lines and injectors/jets. It's not necessary at all to run fuel system cleaners through your bike regularly so to do so is frivolous. It may be considered good advice to pick up a concentrated fuel system cleaner and throw a shot of it into your tank on occasion (before a service where you will clean your carb and replace fuel filter), without crunching the numbers it could be safely assumed that this would be cheaper in the long run than shelling out at every fill for the premium petrol. If your really finnicky you could take off your tank and flush it out too

The Doktor

I used it a while ago for a few fills. No difference at all.

Dorsanty

Have a friend with a powerful car. Manual says 'please use 98 octance', So he rang around looking to find where in this country to get it. When talking to shell Ireland they said V-Power is still 95 octane but has all the extra cleaner chemicals that is in V-Power sold everywhere else.

Shell's top V-Power is 100 octane but only to be found in certain locations.

So if you notice a difference, Eh..., keep living in that dream world. Otherwise get the boat over to the UK and fill up on 97-98-99 octane that they have over there. BP sell 102 octane according to Wikipedia which is equal to F1 and WRC fuel.

What do the MotoGP boys run?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating#Regional_variations

Dorsanty

Did a search and couldn't find discussion of Maxol's E5 fuel

It's confirmed to be 99.2 octane on average.
5% bio ethanol
95% normal unleaded

Anyone using it regularly in their bike?
Anyone used it at all?

Idleater

Did one spin with it in, but thanks to the weather I didn't get to test whether it was much more powerful.

Have to try it properly some time by filling up on a practically empty tank.

Just make sure your bike can take the ethanol - mine can take up to E10 according to the manual.

Del2005

AFAIK all vehicles made recently, last few years, have to be able to take E10 minimun, but check if bike is a gray import from the outside the EU.

Blitzkrieger

It's been a requirement worldwide with cars for donkeys. Not sure about bikes though.

Keith186

Potential-Monke wrote: »

My brother uses it every now and again, and he notices a definite increase in acceleration and speed... Same in a car, it just helps the car to run better. Cleans the engine while drivng too. If you're bike/car is sluggish, wait till the the petrol's nearly gone, put in about a tenner of v-power, and clean the engine, benefits are almost immediate.

I think.

I've a car and bike and buy it the odd time. Definitely more poke alright.

Dorsanty

Stupid manual says "Normal Unleaded Gasoline only". No mention of alternate fuel types. Only other thing is use 92 octane or higher (doesn't say don't go over a certain limit).

Bike due for a service in less then 1000km so will ask the mechanic about it when it goes in.

Idleater

Dorsanty wrote: »

Bike due for a service in less then 1000km so will ask the mechanic about it when it goes in.

Just be careful, the ethanol is alcohol which eats through rubber seals etc so it can do damage. Not to the engine, but to carbs, and the pipes between them and the cylinder etc.

You get a better burn and more power from the burn using ethanol, but because it is less dense, you have to open the throttle more to get the power. I.e. your mpg goes down, but the power goes up.

DonkeyRhubarb

Ive been using it for about 2 months now. Im not sure how much more power you could expect on a 125cc bike, but it's not making it worse.

Keeps the engine clean. I know it defo does that. Bike is still running beautifully and I get the power I want for now.

If that's all it does its worth it cos its only ~ 40c extra a fill. Happy days:D

mastermind2005

DonkeyRhubarb wrote: »

Keeps the engine clean. I know it defo does that.

how do you know that?