[DeTomaso] Ethanol gasoline

[Roland Jaeckel]

In my Longchamp i have my personal experience with normal, E10 and E85.
I have two alumnium gastanks and can switch between both. I can't say, that 
the numbers of fuel consume match to my exprience.
I can't find any messureable difference between E10 and normal fuel. With 
E85 it take about 20% more. With E85 the engine is more powerful. E85 is 
about 35% cheaper than regular and 30% than E10 over here. After four years 
and about 10.000 miles, i found no problems with my tanks and the edelbrock 
carb. Only the lead on one metal flowter in the carb had a crack on my tour 
thrue france, but that happend to me in my Pantera 15 years ago also with an 
edelbrock carb. Back in that days, we had no ethanol in the fuel. What i 
found, that all sorts of our moden fuel olders after three month and the 
engine quits it with light pinging.
Just my experience and nothing else.

Roland Jaeckel

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From: "Sean Korb" <spkorb at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 9:59 PM
To: <detomaso at poca.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ethanol gasoline

> I got it.  Your aluminium tank should offer some protection.  I run
> just 5 to 10% ethanol in my motorcycle and other cars including my
> Pantera.  The key is to not let them sit and use modern fuel lines.
> Old rubber just disintegrates.
>
> I find in practice running a tank every 3 months has been fine, but
> formulations vary wildly.  I'm in the southeast with a bit more
> generous proportions of gasoline than the west.
>
> sean
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:50 PM, pantera928 <pantera928 at bellsouth.net> 
> wrote:
>> I am sure this question has been out there before but I do not recall it. 
>> Do you guys run ethanol mixed gaosline in your cars like E-10 or E-15? 
>> Any issues if you do? I just lost a carburetor (I believe to ethanol) in 
>> another vehicle (71 Cutlass convertible) and I am curious to hear what 
>> you have experienced and how you have dealt with it. My Pantera has an 
>> aluminum tank. Any ethanol issues there?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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