You know you're a jalop when...

"vdub_nut: scooter snob" (jollyroger1210) 01/29/2014 at 15:58 • Filed to: None

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You see this picture

And notice the octane ratings first...

EDIT: high altitude requires less of an octane rating for normal functioning. Googling the lottery tickets leads me to believe this is from Idaho.

Party-vi > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 15:59

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85? What backwards hell-hole is this?

YSI-what can brown do for you > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 15:59

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Ew, is this in Iowa or something? I don't see a 93. . .

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > Party-vi 01/29/2014 at 16:01

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Utah is my guess.

gt6xxer > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:01

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85 octane probably only works with cars that have unhealthy compression. Well, I don't know. But its weak.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:01

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85 and then 88?!

WHAT THE FUCK?

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(P.S. more clearly a jalop when it pisses you off this much)

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Party-vi 01/29/2014 at 16:01

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What the shit is 88?

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Party-vi 01/29/2014 at 16:02

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Seems like octane ratings I saw in El Paso, TX.

So it's either high altitude or weird.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:03

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Woohoo, I pass the test.

shpuker > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:06

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What sort of hell is this? 85 octane? 88 octane? If that's not 94 on the right octane I'll be pissed.

vdub_nut: scooter snob > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/29/2014 at 16:06

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High altitude for sure.

Party-vi > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/29/2014 at 16:06

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It might be Colorado, since they have 85 octane.

shpuker > YSI-what can brown do for you 01/29/2014 at 16:06

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Colorado doesn't have 93. It makes me sad.

vdub_nut: scooter snob > shpuker 01/29/2014 at 16:07

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Ten bucks it isn't. High altitude = less oxygen = lower required octane. Could be somewhere like colorado.

Meatcoma > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:11

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Noticed it had Diesel and Gas pumps, then Octane ratings, then prices, then something odd taped to the pumps, then the lotto tix, then the text at top. In that order.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Party-vi 01/29/2014 at 16:12

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Colorado hits both then.

#IsItTooSoonForPotJokes?

YSI-what can brown do for you > shpuker 01/29/2014 at 16:12

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Here in Indiana we are well supplied in 93 octane and E85. I might run a few tanks of E85 for fun. MUHAHAHAHAHA

RacecaR > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:12

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What if I noticed the diesel button first?

shpuker > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:14

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In 19 years of living in Colorado I've never seen 85 octane. Might be up in the mountains somewhere but either way, it shouldn't exist. Potentially Durango. Nobody likes Durango.

shpuker > YSI-what can brown do for you 01/29/2014 at 16:16

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Oh we've got E85 out the ass in Colorado, not much in Michigan though. However! Every station in Michigan (that I've seen) has 93, and some closer to Detroit (I believe most Mobile One's) run 94 octane. Because abandoned city race car?

YSI-what can brown do for you > shpuker 01/29/2014 at 16:18

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I wish we were like Europe, they have 98 octane over there. So beautiful :')

I have never heard of people running 94 here, either that or I am just ignant.

atrombs > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:25

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What would be the result of using high octane fuel at high altitudes? Would it increase performance? Or would the car suffer from it?

dinobot666 > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:25

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I didn't think I was a jalop anymore since I stopped posting on Oppo when pictures stopped working, but now that Kinja is broken again, pictures are working!

shpuker > YSI-what can brown do for you 01/29/2014 at 16:29

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They have different octane ratings over there. If I recall correctly their 98 octane is very similar to our 93 octane.

94 doesn't really hold that big a difference from 93. Smells magical though.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > YSI-what can brown do for you 01/29/2014 at 16:30

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Europe uses a slightly different octane rating system than we do. I believe they only use the Research Octane Number which is generally a little higher where we use (RON+MON)/2 where MON is Motor Octane Number and generally is a little lower. The tests to determine RON and MON are slightly different and that is why they yield different numbers.

Allow me to drop some Wikipedia on you.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:31

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You kids and your new-fangled octanes. When I was growing up we had to choose between unleaded and regular.

Jordan Clifford > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 16:31

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thats most likely a fred meyer pump. Also its probably in eastern idaho, because that side of the state is literally a shithole.

YSI-what can brown do for you > shpuker 01/29/2014 at 16:32

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So basically the high and mighty Europeans were just saying their gas was better because it had a higher number. Those motherfuckers.

Race fuel smells even better. Every time I am at a racetrack or autocross it smells awesome, better when it has been exploded.

YSI-what can brown do for you > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 01/29/2014 at 16:34

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So we all use the same fuel?

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > YSI-what can brown do for you 01/29/2014 at 16:39

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Probably not, I don't know what kind of mandatory additive packages and fuel blends there are in Europe. But yeah, their 98 octane is probably damn near the same as our 93 or 94. From Wikipedia the MON is generally about 10 points lower than RON, so our rating will be roughly 5 points lower than Euro fuel.

desertdog5051 > shpuker 01/29/2014 at 17:15

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In NM, Loves truck stops sells 85 octane regular. Bypass Loves.

JACU - I've got bonifides. > shpuker 01/29/2014 at 17:25

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Is it any wonder? He shows up just as the party's getting started and he always wore that goofy scarf.

Destructive Tester > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 18:16

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Most likely Idaho, definitely not Utah because of the lottery tickets.
The real kick on the pills, we pay the same relative prices (ie. reg, plus, prem) as everyone else but get shittier gas for the money.

shpuker > desertdog5051 01/29/2014 at 18:21

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That is so not ok.

shpuker > YSI-what can brown do for you 01/29/2014 at 18:21

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Couldn't agree more. It's a beautiful thing.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/29/2014 at 22:41

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Fuck I wish I was paying only $3.38 for gas. That's over $1 less than I'm paying right now!

Volksandmopar > vdub_nut: scooter snob 01/30/2014 at 04:52

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Sad but true. hahaha

TinFoil Knight > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 01/30/2014 at 17:46

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Wait what? this was a test? I didn't get time to study.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > TinFoil Knight 01/30/2014 at 19:14

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Yeah, but the answer comes naturally, no studying required.