but with e85 you dont get quite the same gas mileage. i believe its 20% worse but the power you can extract is enormous and like the op showed. Cheap ass F.
but with e85 you dont get quite the same gas mileage. i believe its 20% worse but the power you can extract is enormous and like the op showed. Cheap ass F.
I'm not sure how much Premium fuel is in your area, but if E85 was 1.70/gal hear, given the gas mileage losses... I'd be saving maybe... oh... $4-6 fill up. And then you have to deal with it eating your aluminum parts away (especially the fuel pump issue).
from what i've seen here on 8th, all the peeps who had ran E85 are having the same fuel pump issue and also their fuel gauge doesn't read correctly. this usually occurs after a month of driving, from what they have mentioned.
i know it's still early to say, but i think it might have something to do with the walbro fuel pump. the other users have that fuel pump. i'm using the stock fuel pump. also my car is driven every single day; it never sits for more than a day.
as time progresses, any problems or news about my car on E85 will be reported.
Last time I checked the Walbro didn't have it's own level sender... that is on the fuel cage IIRC and I don't see what the fuel pump would have to do with the cage sitting in E85.
The guy who tuned my WRX has his STI tuned to E85. He said it required larger injectors and gets crappy mileage overall but the power increase is worth it.
I'm not sure where exactly. I traded my regular 410cc for them from Daniel at Church Automotive. They are the same ones that Hondata uses for one of their land-speed vehicle.
I don't see how E85 is beneficial. If you're getting worse MPG and it costs less, doesn't it equal to roughly the same shiet at the end of the day? :shady:
^^ yes you need the clips to run the RDX injectors, but the injectors themselves is not bigger enough to run E85. they will max out. minimum for all motor setup should be around at least 500cc.
ok, but that's one incident. you can't make assumptions and make valid statements based on one incident. that'll just lead to misconceptions which will just lead to a lot of people being misinformed.
it won't hurt to experiment and try something a dozen times before dismissing it altogether.
i too was skeptic at one point. the first car i worked on with e85 was a 96 civic. stock fuel lines and a walbro fuel as well as rc 750's was all it utilized. it ran for months without a single problem. i tried it out on other cars on stock fuel lines and have yet to have a problem solely related to e85 usage.
and just for the record, yes i have worked on a 8thgen civic on e85.
I'm not skeptic as to the benefits to E85. I'm well aware of the potential of this fuel. I am however skeptic to it's effect on long term reliability on daily driven Si's. I'm quite content to let someone else experiment on their own car in this respect. It's also fun to feed the trolls occasionally.
I'm sorry, but if you can't learn from one incident, this is like saying you can't learn from any number of incidents. This isn't the case at all and it should always be taken to heart and learned from.
so you're going to let one bad experience ruin your perception about a product? why not just try it out yourself and see what you can learn from it. if people didn't try new products everyone would be stuck with the same cookie cutter setup rather than trying to make a setup more efficient by changing something.
I'm not skeptic as to the benefits to E85. I'm well aware of the potential of this fuel. I am however skeptic to it's effect on long term reliability on daily driven Si's. I'm quite content to let someone else experiment on their own car in this respect. It's also fun to feed the trolls occasionally.
^^ words in my mouth. I didn't say let it ruin the perception of the product, i said take the knowledge to heart and learn from it...
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