Shell Vpower fuel

[obi_waynne]

Do we have any fans of Shell Vpower fuel? Is it better than the old optimax fuels?

Do you get more performance and better economy as advertised?

What do you think of Shell fuels?

 

[obi_waynne]

Ok so this is my favourite fuel, my cars have always responded well to it. Shell fuel also reduced a misfire in one of my cars, which I assume was down to a blocked injector.

 

[T9 man]

Another fan here for the Shell V-Power Nitro+

 

[andy206]

have always ran man cars on v power as much as possible, imo the best of the super unleaded brand

 

[T9 man]

Maybe it's just me, but the queues in a Shell petrol station seem to be bigger than anywhere else, with the possible exception of Tesco's

 

[RobBentley]

I always use vPower where possible

 

[T9 man]

^^ Somehow, I never doubted this for one minute Rob, not with the monster cars you drive

 

[RobBentley]

haha...it runs on 95 but with a noticeable power drop top end when the boost comes in. The ECU see's knock based on my aggressive timing map and pulls the timing to the safe-map which is minus 5 degrees.

 

[T9 man]

Well that's easy for you to say, but what does it mean?

 

[RobBentley]

Well that's easy for you to say, but what does it mean?

It goes slower without vPower and that is bad

 

[obi_waynne]

It looks like most of us use and prefer Vpower then!

 

[T9 man]

^^ Yes indeed, I wonder what Shell will come up with next!

 

[RobBentley]

Shell vPower Nitro+ is enough of a mouthful already. Hopefully whatever they come up with next has a shorter name!

 

[obi_waynne]

X Power - um hang on MG used that! Z Power anyone? I quite liked Optimax, I knew where I was with that name.

 

[RobBentley]

What I would like to see is some of the 100+ octane fuels you regularly see on the pump around Germany.

 

[Aerial Andy944]

My Skyline still ran its original ecu which was set for 100 octane fuel found in Japan. I drove a 20 miles round trip to get V Power as it was closest to the GTRs liking. Put a bit of octane boost in also to step the rating up.

 

[T9 man]

^^ I remember Octane Booster from my old Custom car days, made by Moroso if memory serves. To be honest I had no idea if it actually worked or not in my old Capri.

 

[Baldyman]

Def a V power fan, even run my tractor on it at work, ( I don't pay the bill) lol