Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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I switched to E85 and love it.Once you get the carb right you can leave it alone. Why some of you guys want to screw with mixing your own combanation of fuel is beyound me.To hit the right jetting and right air bleeds and keep the mix the same everytime would be hard. Go all the way or stay with gas and pay the 4 to 7 dollar a gallon mix fuel.
... basically you would be down blending straight E-85... remember E-85 starts out as E-100(not really, its E-99 or its booze) and they add a small amount of gas(15%).... it would take some high octane to increase the currant level... and it would be more costly than the straight E-85 and you still wouldnt know what jetting and bleeds....... JMO
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Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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My opinion on does e-85 make more power is it allows more timing and cools the intake charge which should = more power, as far as the potential of e-85 being more potent than gas idk.
Well we know the E-85 has less BTUs than gas per equal volumes... but yes the cooling has a couple of factors that help(less prone to detonation so you can add timing) and its 105 octane at a lesser price tag
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Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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A bunch of us were discussing this over dinner at the HotRod Power Tour on Sunday. Some of the guys run E85 race series and some don't. I was wondering if you could run it without damage to a non-anodized Weiand 6-71. It's a gas blower unstripped. Is an alcohol blower required?
Being that its not corrosive like methanol I would say you should be able to... I have a 6-71 blower engine here but I havent run it on E-85 yet... but it would still require the normal change over to E-85 in the carbs
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Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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I have heard of guys running 14 to 1.
If the MODS did their job I would not be hitting the notify MOD button. LOL
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Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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Let me know one thing, is it possible to find E100 on usa? if the answer is yes, why not rum e100? the only reason to use gasoline on ethanol is cold start...
E-100 is booze... fuel companies CANT sell E100 or they would have to be taxed for selling booze... E98 is the normal spec for so called straight E-100
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Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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Has anyone used the Rocket brand e85? I heard it is higher octane 110 vs 105 for pump e85. Is the cost of the Rocket brand e85 worth it over the pump stuff? How much compression can you take a NA motor to with the pump e85?
Tom I'll bet that the 110 is E-98... I've never run Rocket brand... I buy my fuel at Meijer
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Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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ok, why not run e98?
You can if you want... I switched to E-85 for convenience and price... I can buy the fuel a couple of miles from my house for 2.30 a gal... if I want E-98 I have to drive about 40 miles one way for a much higher price tag... same place for race fuel
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Re: E-85 or Race Fuel
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ok, i ask that cause we have E100 on all gas station here, i never saw in usa... we have regular cars in Brazil that use ethanol or gasoline (flex fuel) with 13:1 compression ratio. I`ll use ethanol on my race car and it`s necessary to cleam carburator with gasoline to prevent corrosion. My quick fuel carb don`t like ethanol inside for long time.
We dont have any problems with corrosion with E-85, I leave it in my QF 1050 over the winter
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