Anyone running a power fc?

[sillbeer]

I was just curious if anyone was running a power fc in the states? When I installed mine the manual said to run only high octane gas. In Japan high octane gas is 97-98. Just wondering if I could have my car tuned for 93 octane gas before I come back to the states? I don't really know that much about stand alone ecu's. All I hear about here is the F-Con and power fc. I was just curious as to how the power fc holds up against other ecu's? Thanks, Destin

[SR180SX]

Personally I think Apexi FC is very cool, but I probably will have JWT or SP to reprogram and tune it for me.

[Sintax]

I dont recall where i read this or how truthful it is, but i read that Japans 97-98 ocatane fuel was not actually that "pure" and that it was over-rated to an extent and was actually about equal to our 93 octane fuel. If anyone else knows anything about the subject i'm sure they will reply, but you may want to search the web a bit, i'm almost positive you'll come up w/ something.

-scott

[Sintax]

I just found this little bit of information on a pretty cool site

http://www.nissaninfiniticlub....shtml

Industry uses different methods in differnt parts of the world to determine Octane readings.

In the US we use an average of RON ( research ocatne number) and MON (motor octane number).This results on somwhat lower numbers listed for US octane ratings.In Australia I presume the same system is used as in Europe where premium is also 98 octane ( or 99 sometime).

RON or MON or different ways of looking at octane ratings in diffrent driving conditions they ra enot just "one higher/lower" than the other and then to be averaged.

So the 98 octane listed in Europe/Australia does not mean what 98 would be here.It would be rated as less in the US calculation system.

-scott