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E85 Fuel Mix/FAQ
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I read it shortly after he posted it. I love reading Larry's posts. He should write for a mag or somthing.
Too bad there's no E85 in town. http://www.e85fuel.com/database/loca...state=nvNevada |
Wow, im not reading that. Can someone sum it up for me?
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Larry is running E85 in his WRX. :D
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Is E85 available out here? I tried looking it up after I read that thread a while back and I didn't see any retailers listed in Nevada.
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I belive it's written in my owners manual not to use gas containing more then 5% ethonal, I'll have to check as now i'm currious.
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oops that's methonal not to run above 5% , guess ethonal is up to 10%
Cute article, although its actually the new Ethonal standerd that has been rising the cost of refined gasoline at the pumps. We don't have enough of it on tap to readily mix in, I belive congress just has or is about to temporarly supsend those mandates and allow non blended gas to be made, to reduce our costs. E85 is a cool idea, but with subsidized farmers, its not likely to reduce our costs, and if its only for autos, not Semis and jets, its not going to dent our oil consumption that much. If we nationally made a huge switch to that, the price of corn would likely go up. Very cool that someone is figuring all that stuff out though. |
I'd like to run E85 simply for the knock protection. Isn't the stuff like 100+ octane?
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Good news for Titan owners they can run on E-85 now we just need a station that sells it!!
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But E85 has lower latent energy compared to regular gasoline regardless of octane so you get worse mileage with E85 compared to regular gas.
Lower emissions at the expense of worse mileage. So 10 gallons of 91 gets you 250 miles but 10 gallons of E85 gets you 200 miles (numbers not accurate, just making an example). So even though you were expelling less emissions per gallon you were using more gas to get to your destination. How is that economical? Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.. |
From what I've read, there are ways to mitigate the energy content difference by optimizing the engine design for ethanol. Due to the much higher octane, you can use a higher compression ratio and more aggressive spark timing.
As for cost/economics, ethanol should become more and more viable as the cost of gasoline continues to rise and production volume of ethanol is scaled up. |
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Now that's what I'm talking about! I need to get a WRX wagon, convert all the seals and crap to E85 compatible materials, and get a Cobb AP E85 high mileage map as a daily driver. :cool: |
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If you guys ever watch top gear, they had an episode with a Koenigsegg CCX which churns out over 800 bhp on 91 and when using biofuel the power escalated to 900 bhp!
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