octane booster

[Marc2365 at aol.com]

In a message dated 97-01-14 00:46:24 EST, you write:

> > Excuse my ignorance:  Is this (MTBE) what oxygenates the fuel
>  -> in Calif?  I've noticed my car pinging *more* since this gas started
>  -> being used year round.  Yet I believe someone said this adds
>  -> octane.  Did I remember that wrong?
>  
>   Crazed psychotics (such as myself) have observed even closed-loop EFI
>  engines sometimes have trouble with fuel heavily contaminated with MTBE,
>  which can lean the engine out past the learn limit of the ECU.  Of
>  course this is pure BS, as many OFFICIAL STUDIES have PROVED no such
>  thing can happen.  MTBE is GOOD for you.  Just sit right here in this
>  chair, comrade, while we hook up these nice electrodes...
>  
>   MTBE is bad news in fuel.  It is put in fuel for political reasons, not
>  chemistry.
>  
  ====dave.williams at chaos.lrk.ar.us========================DoD#978=======
>    can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...
>  ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT
>  ==5.0 RX7 -> Tyrannosaurus RX! == SAE '82 == Denizens of Doom M/C '92==

So I wasn't goin nuts.  The fuel does make our cars ping more.  I can't 
believe they get away with this crap.  I have to de-tune my cars to run on
this gabage?!! 
Oh, tell me about this 5.0 RX7.  Sounds very impressive...

Marc