discount VPower for this Sunday

[Do$tylz]

Hi all,

Found this on a car forum I frequent... I know some peeps here drive cars that would need premium.

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To celebrate the start of the 2009 Formula One season and Shell's

technical partnership with Ferrari, Coles Express is having a one-day

only offer, allowing you to upgrade to Shell V-Power at no extra cost.

Download your Shell V-Power discount voucher (including T&Cs) here:
/>http://www.colesexpress.com.au/vpower

Hurry, vouchers are limited!

Feel free to forward this to your friends and family.

P.S. This offer and Shell V-Power, the fuel developed with Ferrari, is

only available in VIC, QLD, SA, NSW and ACT.

[namyau]

nice find

[Yoodles82]

Oooh, that'll go nicely in the excel! :-)

[Shrimpo]

Wonder if they'll up the price of normal unleaded on the day?

[Do$tylz]

Yoodles82 wrote:

Oooh, that'll go nicely in the excel! :-)

:laugh: :laugh: It'll go from 0-100 in 14.99 seconds

Yeah even if they do up the price, you can use this voucher at the same time as using your usual 4 discount .. so you'll get ~17c off per litre. Pretty good.

[Feral]

SO whats Vpower, none of the rally drivers I know use it, they all use BP high octane.

[Schmuck]

Awesome, cheers for the heads up!

V-Power Racing > BP Ultimate

[Feral]

So its better than 98ron? probably why they dont use it, 102ron is highest allowed for competition.

[silver_rex]

dont think its better than 98 RON fuel Feral...Some reason my WRX hates the Shell fuel, makes same power but makes less torque on the dyno. Good mate of mine who competes in the QLD Rally in his EVO6 rally car doesnt run anything else but BP ultimate along with 90% of the cars he competes with in the QRC, unless you have deep pockets and can afford C16 race fuel @ $5 a litre

[kriso]

we tried it in a mates torana that has 355 stroker it ran like a bag of poo on the stuff. yet with that octane shoulda run fine, i dont like or trust it but that is purely my opinion and you will find everyone has had diffrent results with all fuels.

[Schmuck]

V-Power Racing is 100RON, so better than normal V-Power. The only problem is that it's only sold at a few particular fuel stations so you'd be fairly game tuning your car solely on it.

I've found that V-Power runs a touch richer than BP Ultimate. My old rex was tuned to BP Ultimate but now it's a hassle taking a detour on the way home for it when V-Power is much more convenient. At the time of the tune (about 2 years ago), I remember a few tales of V-Power having a bad patch of fuel, but haven't heard anything since.

But now with the stock car she'll drink whatevers cheap :laugh:

[ellicat]

Thanks for the heads up Henry.

[faulked]

thanks for posting this henry i thought it was a great offer even printed it out before i realised both our cars run on lpg :blush: doooh

jason

[werewolf]

I'm pretty sure that the 100 RON Shell fuel is an ethanol blend. You might want to check that out before you rush in to fill up!

EDIT:

yep looks like it:

And now you'll find 98 octane New Shell V-Power (which replaces Shell Optimax) and New Shell V-Power Racing (100 octane with 5% ethanol), which replaces Shell Optimax Extreme.

from http://www.colesexpress.com.au/fuel.asp#1

[Bommie]

pretty sure most of your high octane fuels except for bp ultimate will have some ethanol in them, thats how they raise the octane rating

[werewolf]

Bommie wrote:

pretty sure most of your high octane fuels except for bp ultimate will have some ethanol in them, thats how they raise the octane rating

and by doing so lower the specific energy (from the ethanol, not the octane) -> crapper fuel consumption

[Do$tylz]

apparently they're limiting the vouchers by closing the page once it has over a million hits... so here's a PDF version for anyone that misses out :) [file name=V_power_discount.pdf size=211312]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/files/V_power_discount.pdf[/file]

V_power_discount.pdf

[namyau]

i just printed it at the office and kept sending them through the photocopier hahahah

[Schmuck]

Bommie wrote:

pretty sure most of your high octane fuels except for bp ultimate will have some ethanol in them, thats how they raise the octane rating

:laugh: Mobil Syn 8000, Vortex 98 and V-Power (98) don't have ethanol in them to raise the octane.

V-Power Racing (100) does have the 5% ethanol in it, but the basic breakdown is 98RON (ie normal V-Power) +10% toluene, 5% ethanol and other additives. The only advantage in using V-Power Racing was if you can manage to tune your car to take advantage of the extra timing from the toluene. Too bad they're phasing it out anyways.