Technical Corner - Octane - Busting Some Automotive Myths

Hi Phil here again, I promise to keep this short. I'm sure you've seen the meme below or something like it:

Sometimes I feel like that about fuel octane when I read online forums, or bathroom walls or whatever.  So I decided to get to the guts of it for you so you can join the apparently small and exclusive club of people who know something about fuel octane. Go ahead and do it...click read more and find out for yourself what octane ratings are all about, also funny British people are at the end. 

Technical Corner - Talking Torques

One of the things I so often see misunderstood on the interwebs is the relationship between horsepower, torque and vehicle performance.  Im going to try my best to pitch this article at a level that makes it interesting, informative and not out of reach for the non math inclined.  Let me know how I do!

Other than being a photographer, and a pastry connoisseur for racefriv I have this totally awesome day job designing engines with a specialization in performance.  Every day I get to plan tests, look at dyno curves, emissions data and performance numbers.  this means I have a very long standing relationship with engine torque curves and how they matter to overall vehicle performance.  If you want to walk for a few minutes in my shoes follow the jump: