tonyjuliano said:
False.
Premium fuel does NOT burn "hotter", just "later". It is designed to be used in high compression situations where regular fuel would detonate prematurely.
+1
and to add to that.......
Since a higher octane fuel burns later...... in an engine NOT designed to use the longer burn, such as our SV motor, tiny droplets of unburned fuel will be left over after each ignition stroke, which end up sitting on the top of the piston..... to later turn into carbon deposits.
In short.... running higher octane fuel in an engine not designed to use it, does more harm then good.... if fact it actually DOES harm, and does NO good.
Back to the subject at hand....., running some fuel injector cleaner every so often, cant hurt. But most of them are hocus pocus crap.
The one I have heard has the best results is the Chevron brands