Anyone care to explain how these things relate? why can you increase timing without pinging if you use high octane?? etc...

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Octane is the fuels resistance to detonation. It does this by burning slower. Since it takes longer to burn the same amount of fuel, timing can be increased allowing more time for the fuel to burn before the piston reaches TDC. Higher octane can also use higher compression since the fuel won't pre-ignite when compressed. Higher octane is also required for any kind of power adder (NOS, supercharger etc) for the same reason. Higher cylinder pressure will ignite lower octance fuels before the spark plug will.

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Damn i have to say very good explanation!