Bringing Back Your Grandpa’s Octane Booster—Real Boost, Real Performance

There was a time when octane boosters meant business. Back in the day, if you needed more octane, you weren’t reaching for some cheap plastic bottle at the auto parts store—you were running real leaded additives, the kind that actually delivered. But as emissions laws cracked down and lead was phased out, octane boosters changed. They got weaker, watered down, and filled with misleading claims about “points” of octane gain (which were really just 1/10th of a number).

What was once a tool for real gearheads became snake oil.

Here’s the truth: today’s real octane boosters use a myriad of active ingredients from Ferrocene, Alcohols, Amines, and many others. However many use MMT (Methylcyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl)  because it’s one of the best alternatives to lead for raising octane in pump gas. But somewhere along the way, the internet decided to fearmonger about it—mainly because it leaves an orange tint on spark plugs was building up and fouling, or clogging injectors, etc.

Let’s be clear: that orange tint isn’t damaging. It’s just a color change, no different than the grayish deposits you’d get from running standard pump gas. Differing color will always exist when burning different ingredients. If you’re running real octane boosters, your plugs will look different—that doesn’t mean anything is wrong. However, to also clarify, buildup can cause issues.

Many of the active ingredients listed and others share one common thing, having a higher density or specific gravity than the fuel it's been blended with. As a result, these active ingredients will fall out of suspension and coagulate at the bottom of the bottle, fuel tank, or race jug. They are then pulled through the fuel system in an ultra concentrated form. Resulting in buildup due to inefficient burning.

BOOSTane solution is the proprietary aspect of our technology. A chelated carrier that keeps those varying density active ingredients in suspension/solution, indefinitely. That's how we achieve octane levels higher than any of our competition and the accuracy we get from our mixing chart.

(Think when northern sweet tea, the sugar sinks to the bottom and gets pulled up through the straw, versus southern sweet tea its in solution all the time. We are southern sweet tea).

If you want to treat your fuel like race fuel, you need to treat your car like a race car. That means:

• Changing spark plugs more often  – Just like in racing applications, if you’re pushing performance, you need to do regular maintenance.
• Post-race maintenance  – High-performance engines require more attention. That’s the tradeoff for getting every bit of power out of your setup.
• Understanding your engine’s needs  – Real power comes from knowing how your fuel, timing, and setup work together.

A true high-performance engine isn’t a “set it and forget it” situation. If you’re willing to turn wrenches and do the work, MMT-based octane boosters give you real results—just like leaded additives did back in the day.

This isn’t some generic, off-the-shelf octane booster for the guy who doesn’t know what detonation sounds like. This is for the builders, the tuners, and the guys who actually wrench on their own cars —not the ones waiting in line at the dealership’s quick-lube.

You can use as little or as much as your vehicle takes advantage of, but if you want real results, you have to be willing to maintain your machine . Using good maintenance practices, as you are now operating a vehicle that has substantially higher octane than it was designed for from the factory. That’s the cost of pushing performance.

Pour it in. Feel the difference. Take care of your engine.