CSI: Miami (TV Series) High Octane (2006) User Reviews

Heads Up!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 6/10 · 4 December 2007]

Some showoff participating in a "sideshow" at an auto race gets decapitated while standing up in his car and steering with his feet while his body is mostly outside. A cable wire hanging above where he was driving did the trick, but this was no accident. All spectators split after the murder so the CSI men and women try to figure out who did what here.

The story winds up revolving around the car's hydraulic system, stolen jet fuel, stolen cars and twisted human outlooks. Once again, almost all the people here are not exactly fine, upstanding citizens (which is understandable, since they wouldn't be participating in illegal events like the above "sideshow.").

Along the way, someone is filming a documentary on the CSI and Ryan volunteers to be the one followed around, but little is done with that, so I assume that story angle will be explored in future episodes.

All in all, except for the opening scene, this week's show was not really an attention- grabbing story. They had to resort to using footage of the guy being decapitated over and over for shock value, because much of the rest of the hour was a bit on the dry side, which is unusual for this TV show.

For a "science" based show it's all wrong!

[gregc02-1 · 1/10 · 21 February 2007]

The whole "Jet fuel" story line is all factually wrong.

Jet fuel is actually kerosene, running it in piston engines found in cars will destroy the engine, not increase performance. It's NOT "high octane", it's actually lower octane than gasoline, which is the problem. When run in gasoline engines it produces extreme preignition (detonation) and will actually destroy the pistons and lower performance. It's a well known problem when fueling aircraft; if someone mistakenly fuels a piston engine, gasoline powered, aircraft with Jet fuel it will usually result in total engine failure shortly after take off. In the 1980s the FAA actually required the removal of the "Turbocharged" logos from piston powered aircraft after a series of misfueling accidents resulting from linemen mistaking them for turbo-prop aircraft.

Any tanker you could drive on the street will not carry the 10,000 gallons of fuel that was stolen. 10,000 gallons of jet A weighs 66,000 lbs.

The 10,000 gallons of jet fuel is stated to be worth $47,000 dollars, which might be true if you buy it at the pump at the local airport, but contract fuel for the airlines runs about $2.00 per gallon making the theft worth about $20,000.

The aircraft that is being fueled with the stolen fuel is a Fairchild C-123 (the same type as used in Con Air) which is a piston, radial engine aircraft and runs on aviation gasoline, not jet fuel. It does have two jet engines to add thrust on take off, but, on this aircraft, those run on the same aviation gasoline that it's radial engines run on.

The C-123 would be a really impractical aircraft to haul cars to south America, it would only carry about three cars at a time and return empty.

For a show that is supposedly science based, it frequently falls very short in the fact department.

This isn't rocket science!

I'm no rocket scientist, but

[mccoyshelley · 2/10 · 13 July 2007]

I used to work at a government fuel terminal that supplied fuel to military bases in the Southeast. We had "jet fuel" JP-4 which was actually used in jets, and JP-5 which was much like kerosene and mainly used in helicopters. Occasionally tug boats/barges that delivered fuel to us that also had av/gas on board. You could burn av/gas in your car, but heaven help you if you tried to use JP-4 or JP-5! I did allow the guys who I worked with to put av/gas in my car, but I didn't notice any difference in performance. Of course I had a 1962 Chevy Biscayne, so performance wasn't a strong point anyway.

I noticed on the show that they used the terms aviation fuel and jet fuel interchangeably. That's just wrong! Thus, this show is far-fetched. I only gave it a "2" because of the cool cars and cute guys! (BTW, I'm female)