anybody on here running ethonal mix in there cars
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anybody on here running ethonal mix in there cars
i know they sell a lot of ethonal cut gas in the midwest and on the west coast just wondering if any one has tryed running it in there turbed cars just wondering because ethonal has a higher octane rating then gasoline
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Re: anybody on here running ethonal mix in there cars
most gas is about 10% ethanol around here but i think you are talking about e85 with an octane rating of 105. i was planning to run it but am moving soon and i dont want to retune when i do that. it runs best richer at about 10:1 but in a wideband setup up for gas you still tune for 12:1 because lambada(sp?) for gas is 12:1 and e85 is 10:1 and a windband read lambada and dispays it in a ratio according to what it is setup to read. check turbomustangs.com they have used it with good results. i made this same post about a year ago
edit: heres a quote from my old post
edit: heres a quote from my old post
Originally Posted by gtaeric
All cars can run on E85 with some fuel system upgrades and some ECU tuning. E85 has an energy content of 81,850 BTU/gallon, whereas gasoline is 115,000 BTU/gallon, so with E85 you will get about 30% worse fuel economy. But its octane rating is 97, so you could run more boost or a higher compression ratio! Really the only downsides to E85 is the fuel economy decrease and the difficulty in finding it for most people. But if you have access to it, and are willing to get get worse fuel economy, you CAN get more power with E85 than gas. I'm an automotive engineering student at MN State Mankato, and we do a lot of testing and research on Ethanol fuels in this program, because it is one way the industry is possibly going in the not-to-distant future because of its low emissions.
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Re: anybody on here running ethonal mix in there cars
im not sure if there is any ethonol in the gas i was running but its some race gas by sunoco. 110 octane. i run this in my race bikes. you can really feel the difference on how it revs up. also ran it in my mustang. you have to love that smell of race gas though.
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Re: anybody on here running ethonal mix in there cars
if you go to http://www.e85fuel.com/index.php it tells you where the station are in you state there is 3 public station in new mexico
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