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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
In any fuel injected engine, car or otherwise, going to premium gas (unless specified to do so per manufacture instructions) does nothing more than burn a more expensive fuel. So...you are essentially throwing money away by burning anything of higher grade, whether it contains any percent of alcohol or not.
As for ring-free, I would guess that due to a difference in how it burns and by design is made to clean the combustion chamber, if memory serves me could set up a lean condition in your engine. A lean condition in your combustion chamber is not good, and will eventually ruin your motor.
Four stroke motors run quite cleanly, so ring free or any other fuel system cleaner is not needed all the time. Stabil on the other hand....if the boat sits for a time would be a good investment to hopefully prevent any gumming of jets carbed or EFI.
As far as disagreeing, absolutely no reason to apologize. Everyone has their own opinion and that is a good thing. No matter what gas you use, what you call it, etc., it still all boils down to one thing...good preventative maintenance of your engine will save many dollars. THAT I feel we can all agree on.
Steve |
