[DeTomaso] Ethanol "enriched" (diluted) fuel

[Thomas Tornblom]

2013-01-10 17:37, Roland Jaeckel skrev:
> We have 10 percent Ethanol over here without any issues in any car.
> I think the swedes have up to 85 percent.

We have E85, but you can't use that in non-flexfuel cars, or converted cars.

You need about 30% more E85 than E5 for the same amount of work.

My daughter has a VW Golf Multifuel, than runs on anything between E0 
and E85, and it consumes about 7l/100km on E5, but around 10l/100km on E85.

I did an experiment on the Pantera, where I had three different EFI 
tunes (I can select up to 5 different tunes with a rotary switch). I 
started out with around 30% E85 and 70% E5, and I drove it up to the 
cabin, and I filled it with 100% E85 in the last major city before I 
arrived, and it ran good, but promptly blew a head gasket :(

The only thing I changed in the tune was to lie to the engine management 
box that the injectors were smaller than they really are, so it 
calculated it needed longer duty-cycle to inject the correct amount of fuel.

I'm not really blaming the fuel, but it was within about 30 km:s since I 
had filled it up with E85.

I haven't experimented with E85 since ;)

Cheers,
Thomas


> Roland Jaeckel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dick Koch"<arkoch at earthlink.net>
> To:<detomaso at poca.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:13 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Ethanol "enriched" (diluted) fuel
>
>
>> While the use of Ethanol diluted fuel has been discussed before, folks
>> may be interested in viewing this video on the use of the Ethanol
>> "enriched" fuel being pushed by the EPA.
>>
>> http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2000862202001/
>>
>>  From my standpoint, I would not use any Ethanol enriched fuel, not only
>> in my Pantera, but any car or other equipment, such as generators or
>> lawn equipment.  A couple of web sites I use to identify Ethanol free
>> fuel are:
>>
>> http://pure-gas.org/
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.htapps.ethanolfreegas&hl=en
>>
>> Dick Koch
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