fuel

[Sal R.]

can I use regular unleaded fuel in my 65 need gas for the first time don't know what type of fuel to use.
Thanks

[Duke W.]

Re: fuel

Have you looked in the owner's manual? Assuming the engine is OE configuration and has not been rebuilt with lower compression, use premium unleaded. All OE '65 engines required premium fuel of the era and today's unleaded premiums have nearly the same RON. Add 4-5 to today's PON to get the approximate RON.

Duke

[Sal R.]

Re: fuel

Thanks Ron but I have no idea what the abbreviation mean sorry very new at this

[Mike G.]

Re: fuel

i use premium with octane boost or racing fuel in my 70 and older cars. i use just premium in newer ones

[John H.]

Re: fuel

Sal -

You need premium, as indicated in your owner's manual.

[Jack H.]

Re: fuel

Duke is using industry standard buzz words. There are primarily two ways to measure octane: the Research and the Motors method. RON= Research Octane Number....

Today's pump gas is specified a new way...the simple average of the Research + Motors methods and you'll see this called out at the pump (R+M/2) which is PON (Pump Octane Number).

Hope this clarifies! Sometimes we assume guys are familiar with the buzz words...