The question to me is simply why use 110 if you don't need it?
Octane rating, the higher you go, is simply the resistence to "dieseling" of the fuel. Dieseling being defined as combustion without an ignition spark and ignition by compressing the fuel.
High octane fuel does not produce more power. In fact, lower octane fuel produces more heat calories per unit, making more power.
In addition, higher octane is usually obtained by adding compounds such as lead. That will add a white crusty deposit to both the spark plug electrodes AND the valves and valve seats.
It also creates an acid compound that initiates an internal process of rotting the exhaust system that otherwise would not occur.
ONE of the strange occurrences that you will notice in running racing gas is that the engine will IMMEDIATELY idle lower. For instance, if you were set to idle at say 950 rpm with pump gas, the engine will immediately drop down to like 550 or 600 rpm.
Why? The higher octane fuel produces less heat calories, i.e., less energy and the idle is showing the percentage of loss of power at idle.
At one time, when leaded gas was the fuel you got at any retail fuel supplier, one could walk along any street in a city and touch the dust laying along the curbside with your finger. That dust was nearly 100% lead that had settled from the exhausts of motor vehicles.
Of course I will also point out that when I started school and we were learning to write, the pencils that we were given were lead pencils. Yea, the bad stuff, so no one is innocent here, except maybe 5 year olds that were learning to write with poison sticks finished in lead based paints?
The teacher told us not to lick the tip, even though that made the pencil easier to write with and if we were good and if our hands started to itch we could go to the sink and wash our hands until the itching stopped.
i'm not accusing anyone of anything. Just explaining what I know within the limitations of my obviously lead damaged brain and nervous system?
UNLESS you ARE running 12.0:1 (sometimes as low as 11.0:1 to be fair) you positively do not want even 103 leaded gas in your cars system. If you think you do then unfortunately you have not correctly analyzed the engineering here.
If you like the smell of it, just get a gallon and take the cap of the container and sniff it. Tires burn well too once you get them going. If you live in an apartment, put one in your barbecue and light it up.
It all depends on your background. To me, these smells just invoke memories of burning cities on fire from being under military seige. That is of course without the smell of the dead corpses of people and animals lying in the streets. That one's a real treat that you shouldn't miss? However there still are those that genuinely love the smell of napom in the morning. I don't, but that's just me?
I do admit that as a kid I did love the smell of the fumes of the gas as it was being pumped into Dad's gas tank and loved the woosey feeling it created. It was a cheap high?
I had a case of Moroso octane booster. Four one gallon cans. I was amused by the red skull and crossbones printed on the cans and the warning, "wear gloves in handling this compound. Do not get it on your skin. It will be absorbed through the skin and will block red blood cells from absorbing oxygen from the lungs".
It went on to state, "in case of contact, get medical attention immediately", and described the effected area as turning purple from asphyxiation of the body tissue in that area. I don't know if that meant that you just killed your hand that turned purple, but maybe?
I gave it away to one of the local racers with a 65 GTO. I told him he had to get his own gloves.