Originally posted by MarkO:
Originally posted by MotorCity:
What sort of gas does it run on? That is if you can compare the European equivalent.
In Europe or at least the UK & Ireland, they use the RON method of calculating octane, here in the US it's the (R/M)*2 method IIRC. R and M are RON and MON respectively. No, I don't know what it all means ....
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R stands for research, and is the benchmark for an engine at idle
M is for either motor or machine, and has the engine go through an RPM range
The US standard is actually (R+M)/2, or an average of the two, and the number isn't actually the amount of octane (there's actually little or no pure octane in this mix of hydrocarbons), rather it's the percentage of how much this particular fraction of gasoline distillation behaves like octane.
Whirling dervish of FFOG.
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