Shell V-power Nitro+

Does anyone use it?

Does the bike perform any better?

I use it and I put Vpower Diesel in the car. I’ve not noticed a big difference between it and regular 95 which I have to put in when we stop at some filling stations in the sticks. Some engines make more power with higher octane fuel but I don’t think mine does. I like the name though and it’s not that much more expensive than fuel save at Shell.

If there is a difference, I doubt you’d be able to tell without some technology to measure it.

Certainly not worth the extra money on my commute unless it makes urban 4x4 drivers check their mirrors.

It’s just high-octane fuel isn’t it? They’re handy if your engine can make use of it - a high octane rating means the fuel can be compressed further before auto-igniting. The more you compress the fuel before combustion the better, so an engine that can spot the presence of the high-octane fuel and then adjust the timing to match and get better MPG.

There are some thoughts here.

the nitro is also full of engine cleaners, so isn’t too bad for your innards either.

every few tanks I’ll do a high octane, on the advice of Rob Brown.

my bike will feel no benefit in performance however.

mine had an extra gear when i tried it. wish i could use it everytime. :smiley:

so i guess you notice it more on a sport bike.

Joby’s bang on, its very unlikely you’ll notice any difference on the road, although high octane fuels probably come with a feel good additive. As said higher octane fuels are designed specifically for high revving engines with high compression ratios. Your engines compression ratio is what it is and cannot be adjusted. The rev band you ride at is also what it is.

So if you ride with the tacho bouncing up and beyond the 12,000 RPM mark and your engine compression ratio is greater than 12:1 then you may be better off with the higher octane, whether you’ll notice any difference on the road remains most unlikely.

if you want to know your engines compression ratio don’t rely on whats printed in the owners/service manual run a compression test (Scorch will know how). Divide the test results back into the compression ratio (Scorch has a sums degree too).

The formulae are CR=psi/20 or CR=bar/1.38

Used it in the Sprint RS and it liked it. Was a bit more economical, around 2mpg per tank and also more responsive. Also in the Daytona 900 and that made no difference really. Better with EFI bikes.

I use it every now and then as a treat, and I like to think that my bike is feels it… because I don’t at all :cool:

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I treat my bike with it from time to time.

I don’t think it’s got as much ethanol in it, which has to be a good thing.

Longshanks - the old V-Power definitely had ethanol in it (I had this confirmed by Shell), so the Nitro+ probably does as well. Worth avoiding if your bike has a plastic tank.

Interesting…but has it got less than the regular stuff ?

Do all of the high octane brands contain ethanol ?

Questions questions ???

I can’t stand Spandau Ballet.

Ethanol has a RON well above 100 so I guess sticking more ethanol in a fuel will tend to raise the RON, so all else being equal, high octane fules will probably have more ethanol as a cheap way of raising the octane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

BP and Texaco don’t contain booze, Sainsbury’s Super does. Practically every 95 RON petrol on the market contains Ethanol. I’ll look through my records from when I owned the Ducati which had a plastic tank that was sensitive to ethanol.

I thought all fuels had to be at least 5% bio by now. Statements from suppliers of exactly how much ethanol is in their products seems remarkably hard to come by.

At the time I just emailed the ‘contact us’ forms on their websites (a few years ago now). Less of an issue for me now as the Honda has a metal tank and I won’t be buying a bike with a plastic tank without getting it Caswell lined in future.

My riding instructors said that there was a research into using different types of fuel in bikes, as in 95 vs 98, and that it proved there was absolutely no difference. Power, mileage or wear wise.

I always put V-Power Nitro+ in just because it’s not really much more expensive than the 95 one mostly because, as Art said, it gives me the feel good factor. Makes me think that I did something good for the bike. Otherwise, just put 95 in and you’ll be fine. I used to rotate 95 with 98 when I had MT-09 and, honestly, there was no difference in performance whatsoever.

95ron is high octane, anything more in this country is just additives to help with your internals. Cars and bikes are made to be run on normal 92/3 or high octane 95 - if I could post the pic from my iPad i would show that my audi owners manual and on inside of fuel filler States to use normal 93 or super 95! The only difference I notice on the R1 with 98/99ron is it pops more on downshifting!