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Old 07-21-2006, 05:00 AM
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Old 07-21-2006, 10:15 PM
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If you have organic rubber fuel lines...say bye bye to them after a while. If you have synthetic rubber in your fuel system..its ok, i know a buddy with steel braided lines in his 95GT and runs E85, he's ran it since April last year and no difference. Around here E85 is about fifteen cents cheaper than unleaded.
THen he is not running E85. E85 needs a 40% larger fuel injector plus some other minor up grades to the fuel system and some serious tuning, if you are trying to convert a regular gas engine to run on E85. Regular 10% ethanol blended gasoline will not harm anything on your car. It has been the only fuel here in Chicago for about 7 years and there have been no reports of it hurting an engine.
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all unleaded motor gas is 10% ethanol

and no it wont hurt or corrode ur fuel system
Not all of it is yet, but they're F'ing trying. You can still get gas here (Dallas) w/o ethanol in it. The E85 blows llama *****...it reduces mileage by up to 30% on some vehicles.
While it is true that E85 has less potential energy (thus the reduced mileage) it also has a octane rating of 105 or better (good news for us FI and high compression guys) and pollutes less than conventional gasoline.




You guys that are in here giving opinions, spreading rumors and speculation, should do a little research before you go shooting mouth off about stuff you know very little about.
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Old 07-22-2006, 01:49 PM
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oh ive done plenty of research. thank you very much
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Old 07-22-2006, 04:27 PM
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oh ive done plenty of research. thank you very much
I was'nt talking about you, unlike most other people, you have done a little research on the subject.
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Old 07-22-2006, 04:45 PM
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hey aint runnin e85 unless he has a flexfuel car.
Its a carb'd car...331 with a 600 Demon carb. Ive ridden in it, it seems to run a little funny....but like i said, i know for a fact he puts it in his car, i was with him when he did it. He's got a plastic fuel cell in his trunk along with his battery, it hasn't f*cked his car up yet, but it does idle kinda funky. I told him about not doing it and i even gave him one of those little pamplets you can get from the gas stations...but he's still doin it.
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