Hi Robert, James and all > Has anyone experimented with ethanol using oversized injectors on a >computer controlled multi port fuel injection engine?
Have you seen these? How to modify an injection system: It's Toyota-specific, but applies to most electronic fuel injection systems. http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Pit/9975/dataBySubject/EFImods.html How To Modify Your Car To Run On Alcohol Fuel: "Guidelines for converting gasoline engines (With Specific Instructions for Air-Cooled Volkswagens)" by Roger Lippman, April 1982 -- Five-chapter online book: http://terrasol.home.igc.org/alky/alky.htm How To Adapt Your Automobile Engine For Ethyl Alcohol Use -- Mother Earth Alcohol Fuel Manual. Biofuels Library http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me2.html More info in Mother Earth Alcohol Fuel and The Manual for the Home and Farm Production of Alcohol Fuel in the Biofuels Library http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library.html >James Slayden wrote: > > > Robert, > > > > A good many of the Ford Rangers are already set up as FFV's, might want to > > check to see if you model is one. Ususlly there is a little plack on the > > gate that has a highway and a greenleaf. But I would check with a model > > database online to verify for sure. If it is an FFV it will allow you to > > run E-85, ie. 85% ethanol - 15% gas. Then you could blend your own. > > > > James Slayden > > > > No, mine isn't an FFV. The turbo Mustang guys frequently use larger >injectors and high output fuel pumps for more power on gasoline, and I >understand that those items are essentially a "bolt on" for my Ranger. >(Though I'd need 2 fuel pumps--one for gasoline, and the other for ethanol.) >Ethanol requires an injector orifice around 30% larger than gasoline, so the >bigger injectors should work. Fuel shut off valves are commercially >available, so I could switch between ethanol and gasoline from inside the >vehicle, just as I used to do when running propane on a previous car. > > The trouble with E 85 is that the ethanol must be anhydrous. I'd like to >try 100 proof ethanol with my high pressure injectors, but I'm not sure the >engine will run, and I worry about bending a connecting rod in a hydraulic >condition where the water does not vaporize. The last engine I built suffered >this fate after I checked my water injection and accidentally squirted a bit >of water into a cylinder. > > My wife has not let me hear the end of that one! > > So, I'm probably better off with the 160 proof variety. > > As far as the "distill while you drive" idea is concerned, I calculated >the output after a good night's sleep and it looks like my total commute would >yield about 1 liter of ethanol, or about 1 / 8 of what I'd need to get back >and forth from work! > > I guess that's why nobody is doing this. . . Well, that's a 12.5% improvement in something or other, though I can't quite see what exactly. Less energy waste anyway, and less energy used in distilling, should be worth trying. It's an elegant thought. regards Keith >robert luis rabello Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
