Cray91

In MN all fuels must contain ~15% ethanol. E85 is everywhere outside Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Farming is such a huge deal in the Midwest that the legislature has propped the farmers up with all the ethanol stuff.

For those who didn't know. Corn is cooked and fermented to creat ethanol fuel.

There is a plant in the town I go to college in, it smells like French Toast when the wind is right.

kain

yummy.

SpankedYA!

You would be fine with a water/methynol injection set up. Prevents detination.

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.

IndianRide

I knew that stuff was high octane but not 97 , thanks for the info. One time I got 94 in ohio at sunoco when I went to get my car painted.