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Mr 650 Serious Thumper Offline The LS650- Classic style & 4-valve engine Posts: 1389 Mempho Gender:	Re: Super or Regular Reply #45 - 03/11/07 at 23:51:33 Lite is lighter. Last time I checked; Budweiser=125 calories Michlobe Light= 124 LOL!, but regular Mich=150 Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02: Man, I've never heard anyone call Mich Light, "Premo". I prefer the one and only Lite
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Super or Regular Reply #46 - 03/12/07 at 04:42:37 Mr 650 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: Lite is lighter. Last time I checked; Budweiser=125 calories Michlobe Light= 124 LOL!, but regular Mich=150 I think that Lite is 96 calories. Plenty of room for a 12 pack and hard boiled egg on an Atkins diet.
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Super or Regular Reply #47 - 03/12/07 at 05:40:23 I believe beer is verboten on Atkins. I mean, it's liquid bread.
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Re: Super or Regular
Reply #48 - 03/12/07 at 06:27:42

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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b277/gmdinusa/Piston-1.jpg

Yesterday, after 5 years and another 12K miles of using regular gas, I pulled the head again.

Here you have it. 6 times the mileage as in the first picture.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b277/gmdinusa/Piston_1693.jpg

Yep, that's mine. I have been running pemium almost exclusively and my piston looks a lot like the top pic.

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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Super or Regular Reply #49 - 03/12/07 at 09:45:56 Savage_Rob wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: I believe beer is verboten on Atkins. I mean, it's liquid bread. Beer has its own food group
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Mr 650 Serious Thumper Offline The LS650- Classic style & 4-valve engine Posts: 1389 Mempho Gender:	Re: Super or Regular Reply #50 - 03/12/07 at 21:32:41 Yeah, we call it modified Adkins. Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: Beer has its own food group
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Super or Regular Reply #51 - 03/13/07 at 08:15:37 Mr 650 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: Yeah, we call it modified Adkins. MMmmmm....Beeerr... Doh!
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Re: Super or Regular
Reply #52 - 03/13/07 at 09:43:49

barb36jack31 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

Had a speaker from the gasoline industry speak at my Rotary Club once and he told us that there are great differences in the gas delivered to different parts of the country.

Best gas to the Rockies and New England, poorest to flat old warm Florida where I live. The idea is to provide the bare minimum that the vehicles will run on (Read improve corporate profits). Back in the old days when I ran my Beemer from Florida to Maine in two .days, I would always experience 2-3 MPG increase when I hit VA and North The reverse was true on the return trip.

Jack H.

Same happens here in Europe too.
When traveling from Rome towards the Alps, I am accustomed to... 400 miles before I need to fill up.
When returning southbound, I easily get an extra 50 miles on the same gas tankful

Now, going back to regular vs. premium, what I can say is I've noticed that premium has more bang to it, so I generally fill up with premium for long trips, and leave regular to city traffic... after all, if you're stuck in 3rd gear in city traffic, what's the point?

Maurizio

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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Super or Regular Reply #53 - 03/13/07 at 12:21:25 mpescatori wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: Same happens here in Europe too. When traveling from Rome towards the Alps, I am accustomed to... 400 miles before I need to fill up. When returning southbound, I easily get an extra 50 miles on the same gas tankful Maurizio Are you going downhill from the Alps?
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Reply #54 - 03/13/07 at 15:04:03

At least here in the U.S., the difference between regular and premium is simply octane and only affects preignition at very high temps and/or high compression. The differences in formulations from one region to another I was aware of, but not that they had that much affect on mileage. Supposedly they are designed to meet regional pollution regulations and, to a lesser degree, function slightly better in different climates/altitudes. The mileage differences are interesting.

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