87 octane vs 91 octane

I proposed to my wife in Edgewater, on that restaurant ship that I hear is no longer there. Favorite little town in NJ was Morristown, so quaint and peaceful back then, everyone was relaxed and friendly and the chow was delicious. We've had lunch in Hoboken before and my wife has taken our daughter to Carlo's Bakery.

All this and we've never lived there! Just passing through or staying on the NJ side for the airport, car rentals and hotels, versus staying in the city and paying more for everything.

I worked and lived in Manhattan for a year and loved everything about it. Walking everywhere, the restaurants, food, entertainment...but that was back before I had a wife and kids. Manhattan is great for when you're either young and single or older and empty nester...but that's probably true for most cities, a great place to be if you don't need a big yard and light traffic for kids.

swathdiver said:

Bay Ridge is where that house is on the tv show Blue Bloods. I used to take family over to Hackensack to visit the USS Ling museum. Up in River Vale is the stern plate from the USS Enterprise (CV-6), the last piece of her next to a little league field and the library.

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skip the trip to the ling in the future, its closed. they got tossed out of the lot there, sub is still in the river, but no more tours are going on.

i live in hackensack, i drive by it daily. the military museums took all they deemed worth taking. guess the rest will go for scrap. the sub is stuck in the mud. river is no longer deep enough to take it else where if they could break it out of the mud. and the river is not part of the lease for the land. i hear the owner of the land gave the ling a lifetime lease for a buck years ago. well he died, his son took over and gave em the boot. condos will soon be built is my guess. with a ww2 sub in the river for a eye sore, as it looks like hell, has for years.

Scottydoggs said:

skip the trip to the ling in the future, its closed. they got tossed out of the lot there, sub is still in the river, but no more tours are going on.

i live in hackensack, i drive by it daily. the military museums took all they deemed worth taking. guess the rest will go for scrap. the sub is stuck in the mud. river is no longer deep enough to take it else where if they could break it out of the mud. and the river is not part of the lease for the land. i hear the owner of the land gave the ling a lifetime lease for a buck years ago. well he died, his son took over and gave em the boot. condos will soon be built is my guess. with a ww2 sub in the river for a eye sore, as it looks like hell, has for years.

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I know, it's a shame. Last time we visited her bow and stern were rotted away but it was repaired at some point later, after 2005. I think the cement or that yard across the way offered to dock her there, don't think she can get under that bridge either without torches.

If I were king the US Navy would be charged with maintaining those museum ships as memorials and recruiting tools. It would not be a big thing for the US Navy to run her through a shipyard service, or at least the US Navy that used to do much of its own work! Ling was unique in that she was kept in her WW2 condition and not updated. She did not see combat being completed too late to see service like the Bowfin, Cavalla, Pompanito, Drum, Batfish, etc. which are all highly decorated museum ships and combat veterans.

It is a blight on a nation that forgets her past and removes the ancient landmarks; CV-6, The Big "E" being another.

pretty sure that whole site was privately funded. sad to see it rotting away. im sure if they tried to pull it out it would fall apart. and the two bridges down river, both are brand new. not sure if the one that used to turn can still turn or not after the rebuild or not. but i hear you can walk across the river there, might be chest deep, but not deep enough, then the bridges are only 12 foot or so from the water line.

i think its fate is sealed in the hacky, rusty grave.

swathdiver said:

We've had lunch in Hoboken before and my wife has taken our daughter to Carlo's Bakery.

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Had to go to a Birthday Party in Little Falls yesterday so picked up a German Chocolate Cake at Carlo's in Hoboken since I was not far from it. It was AWESOME!! I generally get cakes all the time at Carlo's Bakery in Manhattan at 42nd and 8th. Always at least 60 people in front of me [no matter what time of day or night] but the line moves fast enough and worth the wait.

Miami-Dade said:

James I on the road this week so tried 2 tanks of 93 Exxon-Mobil. I was down to 50 miles left to empty when I tried my first tank of 93. I generally never let the gas get that low. I did not get better mileage but I have zero complaints on the mileage am I getting. I did not notice any more power out my 5.3. A least not that I noticed.

Some people [not you] think there are magic powers when you use 93 octane. I am back to running 87.

I generally use the same octane all the time so the engine does not have to adjust to different octane levels.

All that is just me. To each their own.

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Have you noticed a faint knock at all? 87 faint knock 91 real faint knock. Any advise?

Wambliokiye said:

Have you noticed a faint knock at all? 87 faint knock 91 real faint knock. Any advise?

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No faint knock at 87. I would hear it real quick if it did as my ears are tuned for it. On other vehicles I did get faint knock at 87 and real faint knock at 91 using Chevron and Sunoco. I stick to only using [when possible] Exxon-Mobil fuels.

We cannot hear all knocks, but the knock sensor can! My engine's computer would record a couple (1 or 2) at the top of each gear at WOT even when burning 93.

swathdiver said:

We cannot hear all knocks, but the knock sensor can! My engine's computer would record a couple (1 or 2) at the top of each gear at WOT even when burning 93.

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How did you find that information?