They also pay half the price for most cars that we consider "luxury" vehicles - we're not talking about economies of scale here
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They also pay half the price for most cars that we consider "luxury" vehicles - we're not talking about economies of scale here
Probably 25+ Servo's across Sydney now stocking E85, a mate has an E85 tune for his track XR6T.
The benefits are huge for him as his engine runs much cooler now, he gained around 30kw with the switch to E85, he now puts 347kw to the ground with the stock turbo. The only downside is ya need to drain the tank before either filling with E85 or refilling with regular. The stuff aint cheap either.
My mates been egging me on recently to grab a Hondata and run E85 for the track. Gotta say I'm a little tempted, he was gunna find out from his tuner if it was possible ??.
Its all possible - did your mate change his fuel filter? Tell him to change it to an alcohol fuel style filter before the standard carbon filter falls apart and destroys his motor... I have seen this happen in falcons on E85
Your civic may not get such a big advantage with E85 unless you are running high compression or forced induction (effective high comp). I would save your money and change other aspects of your car like tyres or suspension if you haven't done that already.
Yeah hes aware of the fuel filter situation. So how much higher does the comp ratio rise ? Would the stock piston not cope with e85 if it was just used on trackdays ? Already sorted my suspension so any minor power upgrade would be welcome.
Cheers
E85 won't increase your compression, the benefits are really only seen when its added to a high comp motor - i can't think of the exact wording to explain it right now, but i've seen a conversion on a low comp N/A motor (427ci V8) and the results were fairly insignificant over 98ron
I think what you're trying to say Pat, is that e85 really only sees significant gains in high boost and high compression cars because it allows you to advance the timing further than regular pump fuel, because due to the higher octane, its more resistant to detonation.
This results in higher power figures.
Yeah, thats about it - sorry, work and small hangover is causing me to struggle today... lol
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Originally Posted by Drifter995
thats true.
plus tasmania is somewhat secluded.
Ethanol contains water anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by oopoc
For my 60 liter tank, filling up with 95 octane E10. theres around 370 mils of water in the approx 10% ethanol content.
So a glass of water per tank...
Just curious, but what sort of compression number would you need before getting the benefits of E85 in a NA motor ?
This is a bit of a stab in the dark, but I would guess around 12 or 13 to 1
Off topic but I've heard that you looking for more then 12 and up to 14.
Also saw somewhere some guy saying you could run like up to 20:1 on e95