Low Octane Non-ethanol Gasoline Availability

Check out Pure Gas Ethanol-free gas stations in the U.S. and Canada , a listing of ethanol-free gas stations in the US and Canada.

Here's the SC list - Ethanol-free gas stations in SC . From a quick scan, I don't see any with 93 octane listed in Columbia.

 

Around bodies of water, usually you can find ethanol free 93 octane.


Some pumps offer ethanol free in 87-90 octane for lawn equipment.

 

You could try the 90 octane with a booster, Torco, Klutz and even VP fuels offer octane boosters. What has been the noticeable issues, if any with the 90 octane?

 

why would you run ethanol free in a 360?

Or are you pumping this into something else?

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The only two choices I have found in my area are 90 octane ethanol free for about one dollar per gallon over the cost of premium 93 octane with 10% ethanol content, or 100 octane "race fuel" for about $9 per gallon.

IIRC, the "104 Octane Booster" type additives only bump it up a few tenths of a percent, not to 104 Octane as the name implies. So the additive will take 90 octane ethanol free fuel to 90.4 or something like that. And the octane boosters are usually made with........ethanol, lol!
Alden

 

That site is of dubious accuracy. The EPA determines what type of gasoline is sold where.

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If u are concerned about etoh, why not use ordinary premium (10% etoh premium) and add star tron additive.

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The eepah is pushing "more corn flakes, igor", but that was before the change in leadership.

Yes, a lot of E0 gas is lower octane, because it's often used in lawn mowers, generators, and other smaller carb'd engines that don't need a lot of octane, and don't do well with ethanol.
(E.g. seasonal engines where the ethanol gas will go bad faster.)

The list is pretty accurate for TN. (Check the "last updated" dates.)
Six "real gas" stations in my town.

While the Sunoco in town only carries 87 octane, there are other stations carrying 87,89, and 93 octane E0.
And one "tire shop" (redneck racer) shop carries 95 and 101 octane real gas.
But then, TN is one of the States inclined to tell the Feds to stuff it.

I don't worry too much about E10 in my 328, because I had most of the fuel hoses replaced back in 2000 on an engine-out "make it right" service.
But the Spica Alfa doesn't like any water in the fuel system, so I prefer E0 there -- and the 11.5:1 compression wants at least 89 octane.

 

Ethanol-free gasoline is indeed better for the elastomers (seals, hoses) in the fuel system, but these components in the 360 were designed to be compatible with E10. I would thus put a lot more emphasis on the octane because if it is too low, you'll get knock (or for cars with knock sensors, it cuts back the timing thus cutting back on power).

 

I'd checked that site before and hadn't found a station in my area but this thread prompted me to check again and now they're showing a station selling lower octane E0! I'll definitely try it in the daily driver truck. It'd be worth going a little out of the way and paying an additional few cents a gallon to get higher energy density and to take a few pennies out of Monsanto's pocket, since their tirele$$ lobbying effort$ are why ethanol was shoved down our throats in the first place.