At 07:44 PM 6/1/06 -0700, Steven wrote:
>Basically, you'd need to carry 11 gallons of E85 to go the same distance you
>went on 10 gallons of gasoline.
Hmm, maybe even the small 15 percent of gasoline helps quite a bit? I
thought I recall reading that with straight (100%) ethanol, the A/F ratio
had to be adjusted to around 7:1 or 8:1 instead of the usual 14.7:1.
Which is why I'm surprised more isn't going into butyl alcohol. Somewhat
less trouble with water relative to ethanol (not sure *how* much or little
of an improvement, though), and there's more energy per gallon, I think the
mixture would be somewhere in the 10:1 or so range? Again, assuming
straight 100% alcohol.
It's been a couple of months since I bothered to look at the numbers, though.
- Joe Vahabzadeh
