#108646, "RE: E85 - What's My Best Option" In response to In response to 19
Leave it to me to come crawling from the depths.... E85 requires 1.47% more fuel to make proper burn under power. Use .77 as your bsfc when calculating, as the "proper" calculation of 47% actually becomes about 30% in real life. Due to efficiency of the burn of ethanol. More bang per buck, even though lower btu value. Also, ethanol is Not corrosive like methanol. Both alchy but different make up. E85 worst problem is absorbing moisture. Like a bottle of fuel line anti freeze. Keep your fluids fresh in that respect. Now... I have to go hunt down a few ppl and make some wrongs right. A year and a half off the grid of society leaves a few unfinished chapters in ones life. Also- the A1000 takes to e85 just fine, ask mine after a year of running.
Creative thinking? Ingenuity? Hell, It's just an obsession!
99 Eclipse GS turbo: MSpowered, everything custom built, 223.8 HP-199.8 TQ @8psi through auto-tranny. The first time around...