What I have been told about the octane rating in fuel is:
Straight gas (zero octane) is highly explosive. Very damaging to engines. The octane rating is increased (what the addative or process to increase "otane" is, I don't know) to slow down the explosion to become a slow burn. This allows for more power to be extracted from the gas during the combustion process. The higher the octane the slower the burn, the slower the burn the higher compression ratio the engine can run without pre-ignition thus the more powerful the engine is. Thus
the higher the octane the better right??
Don't take this for gospel, maybe some of our resident experts can confirm this or enlighten us on this.
I am going to have to do some research on Propane for race.
