E10-Fuel soon E12

[briansjacobs]

Not trying to be confrontational I'm just curious, but how does the ethanol affect engine internals. Sorry its a bit off topic.

not off topic at all, it is actually very on topic. Ethanol is highly corrosive and it will cause premature wear around the rings and valves.

[AndrewBird]

Ethanol is higher octane than gasoline, so with the right tuning, you can actually get more HP out of it. It does put out less BTU's per volume than gasoline though, which does mean less MPG.

[5KWattson]

just dump like 2 cans of oct booster in each tank ROFL

[Sagaris]

Ethanol makes me effin-lol

I can feel a noticable decrease in performance and mileage with ethanol fuels. I have no choice but to buy E-10 since I moved to the midwest. I bought an electric lawnmower because I am sick of the extra maintenance (long-term storage preparations and more frequent carb cleaning) required for small gas engines that run ethanol fuels.

I wish it would go away.

[kylekrueger]

Not trying to be confrontational I'm just curious, but how does the ethanol affect engine internals. Sorry its a bit off topic.

[briansjacobs]

the way I was told is there should not be a noticable change in fuel economy, my concerns were more about the long term effects of the ethanol on our internals.

[Dominic49]

2% worse economy?

[briansjacobs]

another 2% should not really effect fuel economy.

[Kershaw]

yaaay less mpg!

[briansjacobs]

Talking with a friend the other day that is an Ethanol trader, he told me one thing we should expect from this big spill in the gulf is an increase in the amount of ethanol into our fuel supply. We are currently blending 10% into our fuel supply, there is a push from the lobbies to go to 15% but it will more than likely end up at 12%. The EPA only test the environmental effects of the fuel changes and does not consider the long term afftects on our engines that were not designed to run on E10.

interesting