Why you should never let your wife take your ss

[BIGSWOLE]

I'm gonna try to make this as short as possible. My wife asked me to take my car to the gym tonight. I reluctantly agreed and now I regret it.I gave her money and asked her to fill up my car with 93 octane,she agreed. Whenever she returned she let me know she's pretty sure she put low grade.Said she was on the phone with work and got distracted.Needless to say I blew up and now am in the doghouse. I need some good advice and input on if anything will go wrong and what I should do.I have lt headers ,cai throttle body and a Jannetty tune that is set for 93 octane.Will my car be alright to drive as is? Someone please give me some good advice.

[lexlueger]

Originally Posted by BIGSWOLE

I'm gonna try to make this as short as possible. My wife asked me to take my car to the gym tonight. I reluctantly agreed and now I regret it.I gave her money and asked her to fill up my car with 93 octane,she agreed. Whenever she returned she let me know she's pretty sure she put low grade.Said she was on the phone with work and got distracted.Needless to say I blew up and now am in the doghouse. I need some good advice and input on if anything will go wrong and what I should do.I have lt headers ,cai throttle body and a Jannetty tune that is set for 93 octane.Will my car be alright to drive as is? Someone please give me some good advice.

Try a can of octane boosted???

[Oxtar41]

it shouldnt hurt anything just drive it easy

[SSE 4 2SS]

Drive it to the parts house and get a bottle of good octane boost. Drive it with the octane boost in it until you are at half a tank, and the fill it with 93 octane... or whatever you have available in your area...

I seriously doubt a Janetty tune is going to turn off the knock sensors... They will protect the motor by pulling timing until the fuel is better... Nothing to get a divorce over...

By the time you finish this tank and fill it with a full tank of 93 you'll probably be fine... Ask Ted in a PM if you need to do anything else... but you will have to deal with the same issues if you ever drive into a part of the country that has no high octane fuel... It'll be fine...

I took two cases of Amsoil Octane Boost with me to the Fest... Used a bottle at every fill up...

The more serious thing to point out to her is someone on the phone talking or texting while filling the car.... I can point out a few videos of fires starting this way...

[coolman]

I can't believe you talked your wife into putting gas in a car at all. If I die my wife will be in trouble after all of our cars run out of gas.
Anyhow I wouldn't worry about it to much. Call Jannetty to see what they say.

[daveagogo1]

Just remember she is your wife and it's a car. Apologize to her if you didn't already. Toss in some octane booster, run it out, fill it up with premium and move on and enjoy. The car isn't going to implode over 1 tank of low octane gas. Also, did she get a receipt? Or pay with debit card? If so you could easily calculate if she indeed put in regular based on what she paid if you know how close to empty it was.

[BIGSWOLE]

Originally Posted by daveagogo1

Just remember she is your wife and it's a car. Apologize to her if you didn't already. Toss in some octane booster, run it out, fill it up with premium and move on and enjoy. The car isn't going to implode over 1 tank of low octane gas. Also, did she get a receipt? Or pay with debit card? If so you could easily calculate if she indeed put in regular based on what she paid if you know how close to empty it was.

she paid with cash.she put 55 $ in and I had about a quarter of a tank in it whenever she filled up.I'm pretty sure 93 is close to 3.90 where she went. Whenever I calculate it seems as if she may have been mistaken and actually put 93. What do you think?

[EnzoR]

Don't engage WOT, and proceed with octane booster possibly fuse pull mod after you run the gas out. That would probably be my damage control, godspeed man. And don't be too hard on the old lady maybe explain to her why you were so upset that way everyone is on the same page

[ColdCamaroSS]

You'll be fine.

Don't use octane boosters. They're practically worthless (they only raise the decimal point of octane. Example 87 to 87.8 and turn your spark plugs orange with a nice coating of MMT). Worthless.

If truly worried, go get some unleaded race gas and dump a few gallons of 100 in the tank.

[hansenp]

Funny how that works yeah? U r the one mad but some how the table turns and she is mad and your the one in the dog house even if your beast is pinging.

[BIGSWOLE]

Originally Posted by hansenp

Funny how that works yeah? U r the one mad but some how the table turns and she is mad and your the one in the dog house even if your beast is pinging.

my thoughts exactly

[Indpowr]

But, what if the SS is your wifes car...lol

[PQ]

Here is Teds response to the same inquiry in another thread. Ted is well aware of this and knows what he's doing. Since you have a tune from him. You're fine. Just follow his advice below.

Originally Posted by JANNETTYRACING

The Knock sensor constantly protect the engine so you have nothing to worry about.

Although I would not recommend racing your car on Lower than 93 octane fuel Normal driving is Fine.

A fuse pull does nothing with a tune.

Ted.

[SSE 4 2SS]

and there you have it from the mans mouth...

and in reference to the comments about octane booster, I mentioned a good one, there are horse liniment treatments out there, but there are also some good ones...