spine Legacy Donating Member 642 Member For: 20y 5m 11d Gender: Male Location: Footscrayastan Posted 20/08/08 11:35 PM Posted 20/08/08 11:35 PM Just read that in various locations around Australia we have a new fuel E85 available. It has a octane rating of 110, being 85% ethanol. Just wondering has anyone tried this fuel yet? If so what spark plugs were you using at the time? What were the outcomes of tuning with this fuel?
boosted_sa Member 270 Member For: 21y 2m 10d Posted 20/08/08 11:40 PM Posted 20/08/08 11:40 PM Can you get it in SA?
ETM Member 1,194 Member For: 19y 6m 16d Gender: Male Location: syd south Posted 20/08/08 11:45 PM Posted 20/08/08 11:45 PM It is only available at limited service stations at this point but the fact that they have invested in setting this up is promising. There are actually a new range of citroens I think that are dedicated e85 engines.you will need a fuel system 30% bigger than you need for a petrol system to make the same power and your economy will be 30% less than what it is on petrol but the power gains should be awesome, hopefully the price of it is 30% or more cheaper than petrol.Indy cars run on 100% ethanol so you know its god sh!t
spine Legacy Donating Member 642 Member For: 20y 5m 11d Gender: Male Location: Footscrayastan Posted 20/08/08 11:49 PM Author Posted 20/08/08 11:49 PM Can you get it in SA?yes from what I read its available in SA. Just trying to find out where at the moment.
bloosted Cruise Control 1,383 Member For: 20y 9m 23d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 21/08/08 01:07 AM Posted 21/08/08 01:07 AM Can you get it in SA?Mawson Lakes, Bruce has tuned with it and so has Martin Donnan,read the latest street machine and you will see my car tuned on it
boosted_sa Member 270 Member For: 21y 2m 10d Posted 21/08/08 01:24 AM Posted 21/08/08 01:24 AM going to get bruce to tune mine again, might take it down with a tank of e85
spine Legacy Donating Member 642 Member For: 20y 5m 11d Gender: Male Location: Footscrayastan Posted 21/08/08 03:51 AM Author Posted 21/08/08 03:51 AM Mawson Lakes, Bruce has tuned with it and so has Martin Donnan,read the latest street machine and you will see my car tuned on itSo what type of spark plugs did you guys use? What were your results on the dyno? Im guessing your would have had heaps more play with your timing.
bloosted Cruise Control 1,383 Member For: 20y 9m 23d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 21/08/08 03:58 AM Posted 21/08/08 03:58 AM So what type of spark plugs did you guys use? What were your results on the dyno? Im guessing your would have had heaps more play with your timing.didn't need to change the std phoon plugs and picked up 30+kw
axr-jet Legacy Donating Member 316 Member For: 22y 1m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Sth/East Posted 03/09/08 08:26 AM Posted 03/09/08 08:26 AM The V8 Super Cars will be running this fuel in 2009.
summoner Member 288 Member For: 21y 1m 25d Posted 03/09/08 12:06 PM Posted 03/09/08 12:06 PM Pity ethanol is a waste of time as a renewable energy source as it takes more energy to convert it from what gets grown to a usable resource and is a complete waste in terms of usable quantities of materials required.
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