E85 Ethanol - possible to convert to Flex-Fuel?

From : Annonymous

Q: whats the difference in a flex-fuel engine that lets it burn either unleaded gasoline or e85 85% ethanol is it possible or even economical to convert a conventional ic engine to run e85 whats involved .

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From : joe

4ax.com whats the difference in a flex-fuel engine that lets it burn either unleaded gasoline or e85 85% ethanol is it possible or even economical to convert a conventional ic engine to run e85 whats involved its simply not worth it http//tinyurl.com/grol2 .

From : big al

4ax.com whats the difference in a flex-fuel engine that lets it burn either unleaded gasoline or e85 85% ethanol is it possible or even economical to convert a conventional ic engine to run e85 whats involved its simply not worth it http//tinyurl.com/grol2 its not going to save you money because your car would use a lot more fuel. on an older non computer car its easy to run it. have to make the mixture richer you should advance the timing and make sure all the parts in the fuel system can live in alcohol. al .

From : Annonymous

writes its not going to save you money because your car would use a lot more fuel. on an older non computer car its easy to run it. have to make the mixture richer you should advance the timing and make sure all the parts in the fuel system can live in alcohol. thanks al. i guess coming from the natural gas industry as i do that i should have known its all about btu. alcohol certainly will burn but not as efficiently as plain old gasoline. hard to beat those old hydrocarbons. theyve really got things genuinely f%!$#d up down here in houston. here we are 50 freakin miles from the refineries and theres spot gas shortages all over town. retailers are complaining that their tanks have to be flushed out a couple times with what i dont know to allegedly scrub out the mtbe before they can refill with 87e10 so theyre each out of service for at least 2 days while that occurs. someone please help me understand. if thats so then why dont we consumers likewise have to flush out our complete fuel systems before buying a tankful of 87e10 its all a conspiracy. the big oil companies are not in the oil business; theyre in the oil shortage business. withold the supply and it suddenly becomes gold. .

From : nez

some may remember a few weeks ago a 98 isuzu amigo with ruptured coolant hose and temperature gage in the red line for an unknown time. well i finally pulled the cylinder head - block and head are well within warpage limits but when i pulled the head i saw a lot of carbon on the pistons that is mostly soft - my finger nail easily removed a test swath. comments requested on cleaning the pistons in the block do you think its ok to rotate the pistons to tdc and use a soft bristle brush to clean the carbon and vacuum out any debris. also some cylinder head gasket material fell into the head mounting bolt holes along with some engine oil. i was thinking of using a turkey baster to remove the material and/or putting some kind of oil filters on my shop vac to remove the debris before running a tap to ensure the threads are clean. any ideas if you have an air compressor and a blower you can hold a rag around the top of the bolt hole and blow the oil/trash out of the hole. becareful though as if you stand in the wrong spot you will get a little dirty *grin* -- -chris 05 ctd 06 liberty crd im sure the regulars will respond with sound advice and thank you in advance but dont want to name names lest i forget a significant

From : snoman

on wed 10 may 2006 022404 gmt ramman@dodgecity.cc wrote alcohol certainly will burn but not as efficiently as plain old gasoline. hard to beat those old hydrocarbons. that is not exactly true. alchol does burn very effectively and cleanly the problem is that a gallon of it has a lot less heat content than gas does and the heat is what drives a internal combustion engine. the nice thing about alchol is that if you built a engine to run on it exclusively it has a much higher octane than gas so you can run around a 12 to 1 cr ratio and extract a larger percentage of the availble energy and convert it to work. the average gas engine is about 30% efficent at best which means 30% is converted to work and the rest goes out through tail pipe and cooling system. some of it is lost to internal friction too ----------------- the snoman www.thesnoman.com .